Forged By Faith

Hebrews 12:6 NIV What is emancipation? Is it just some fancy way of saying freedom? Is it a feeling of having been freed? Is it something that one person can ever really give another? Is it something we’ve never already had? Is it some plainly political ploy played to endear a new group unto a side of some war you wish not to lose? Is it a familial failure found in setting free from the family one who wishes to no longer remain so connected? Is it just the general disconnecting of someone from something that’s elsewise proven entirely too prone to pain or strain or struggle or other such persecution? Is it a formal document written unto the benefit of those for whom it’s written as it literally spells out both their recent lack of freedom and also an awareness as to both their newfound liberty and that with the stipulation stated clearly as to who granted it? Is it something that we can be granted having given it away in order to be defined as those now in need of it? It’s truly a weir...

Job 5:17 NIV What is emendation? Is it something of an amending but only vaguely specific? Is it something of a preference, an input as given us from another who sees something concerning in our present? Is it a present offered those who, though writing their own story, or so we’re often told, are found to be either unworthy or unable to actually hold a pen? Is it an emancipation from a life lived as if a scribe living a life that’s meant to die no matter how many attempts we’ve made at a better rewrite? Is it rewriting a life rewired to find us no longer hired out for temp work or minimum wage? Is it altering the ways in which we walk, the words used when we talk, maybe even something which inspires us to talk less as it suggests that our every word will be weighed? Is it the weight of a mistake, one we didn’t catch but rather was caught by another who, in this case, cares enough to inspire in us a willingness to be rebuked? If anything I think it’s something a proof of humility makin...

Hebrews 12:11 NIV What is correction? Is it, as pride would abide, a simple matter of being correct? Is it, as humility might imagine, a willingness to being corrected? Is it something that we’re here only to offer others, a sort of guidance or direction given them from what is our own measure of understanding and perfection? Is it another offering unto us their assumptions and estimations as to the investigations they see we’re at present undertaking? Is it something someone can offer? Is it anything anyone can accept? Is it such a losing fight that it takes guards day and night at a facility meant to accomplish it? Is it a hope to curb our lawlessness? Is it a law given to curb our brokenness? I for one find it a love given to all of us from He who, let’s be honest, has at this point no reason whatever to keep offering it. It seems a kindness that He’s willing to help us with all this chosen blindness that’s in need of such correction if ever we’re even to see what life itself is mea...

Hebrews 12:10 NIV What is direction? Is it the overall aim we claim toward a choice we choose? Is it the trajectory which seeks obviously to avoid all tragedy as rather its delight is designed inside a decidedly more triumphant destination? Is it the discernment demanded to ensure we’re handed the hopes for which we hope? Is it another offering to share in our hope as is done from what is an outsider’s perspective placed upon a share of our preference as is shared because they too can see the worth of it? Is it having another act as if truly a sister, a brother, a mother, in this case, a Father as they decide to help us decide which way is best to go so as to ensure that it is the best that we come to know? Is it something we can know or rather must it always remain something we figure out as we go? Is it the way we go or instead more worried about where? Where can we go other than usually back to those places we already know having known the way to get there as being then the safest j...