Forged By Faith

Hebrews 11:14 NIV feels for the fringes And that only because we are still physically in this place in which thus too are our eyes which then will always beg that we believe in what we can see as is seen inside this scene of this sea of a society to which we once tried to belong and amongst whom we still walk along. Only struggle then becomes that while we may walk together for a time it’s a walk with an entirely different appreciation for time, for life, for the fact that our life has here but only so much time left before we leave toward what comes to become our most blessed of belief: A home. Something that, like most, we’ve all sought to find within this time in which we have lived like many still will live in what will remain for those most a life in which this world is fit for everything everyone may want or hope to be within it. All of us have tried really hard to finally hold what is that feeling of being at home with all the comfort and security that a home is supposed to offe...

Hebrews 11:13 NIV realizes the reason Simply because to all things there must be one. Everything has to have a reason as to why it happens, when it happens, why we feel the way we do whenever it does whatever it does whenever it does. There has to be a purpose, a point, a promise or punishment to all things as nothing can exist without there being a need for it. All things must do something and have too then a reason for being created to do whatever it is that they’re here to do. Because God’s not just going around coming up with all this stuff just to have stuff to come up with. Granted, He is the Creator and so it would seem reasonable that as a creator our Creator just enjoys creating. But still, even His own Word reads to everything there is a time and a season. And so why then would such times and seasons be given unto all things if not because all things have only a season in which they mean something and a time in which to mean it? In fact, does not the brevity of all things len...

Hebrews 11:39 NIV rescinds the acceptance Because, as it turns out, this faith brings with it a whole bunch of questions. Questions such as why? For what? Where you going? From where you coming? Who you been? Who do you want to be? Do our wants really mean anything? Should our wants mean anything? Should the wants of the world then if we maybe agree that perhaps even our own don’t? What rules are we supposed to follow? Where would/will said rules lead? What’s the prize at the end of the journey? Can you even consider it a journey if never you’re found moving? I ask myself questions such as these all the time. In fact I often find that often my mind never stops thinking and learning and thus asking more questions of both myself and the world around me. Even asking questions of the hope within me. Why does it matter? What does it help? Again, where will it go? Where have we gone? Why can’t we all see just how far gone we’ve gone? Do we really like this life that we’re living at the behes...

Hebrews 11:38 NIV reappraises the applause For among the nuance of this narrow is found an awareness as to just how shallow the acceptance of a selfish society can be, if not in fact must be. Because, indeed, this world in which we live is lived in by those who look with approval upon so many things which are in no way so worthy of being approved, appreciated, appraised even, let alone then even praised. And this is because within this place it’s been long since proven that such things as death, darkness and delusion are seen as accepted, expected in all honesty. And we’ve all honestly gone along with that assumption as to the presumptions of everything from purpose to pain, going so very far as to make it our very purpose to avoid pain as we’ve seen inside the estimations of society no need to ever endure such downsides to this life. No, instead we’ve all sought and in many ways seek still to have still good lives as we all still define in line with what all mankind considers to be go...