Forged By Faith

Romans 7:5 NIV takes a right through wrongs On the surface it seems a considerable counter productivity to have had the law given which would thereby outline all the ways in which we’ve all fallen out of line in what’s long been a life in which we’re all falling behind in terms of following He who is the Life. I mean, doesn’t it seem the least bit strange that God would bestow this thing upon His children that would cause said children to realize they’d grown into what’s really nothing short of heathenistic, hedonistic criminals who, having broken literally every law we’d be given, would then so too opt for a life spent hiding from Him? Truly, why would He do such a grievous thing unto we who were created in His image and therein meant to be His loving children? Well, because the simple reality is that we’ve all long since forgotten that we were made in His image having obviously opted instead to brazenly fulfill that part in Scripture where it’s said that in the last times there would...

Romans 8:6 NIV begins at misconception For this is where our every next step is to be always taken in faith as faith remains the substance of things unseen, a trust in their being there though we cannot see them, a hope that said confidence will confide in us an inevitable validation unto the humble courage to consider the veracity of that which we cannot see, and a belief that sometimes said courage is all we really need. And that especially in those moments in which it feels the last thing we have to give. Such as those many moments when the truth of our fallen reality asks that we confess that we ourselves have made this mess that is our life that we have lived by and for and in and behind so very many lies that, to be honest, there comes a time in which all we can find is that we know not where we are, how we got here, why it was that we were always so eager to stay nor where to find that courage needed to walk away. Why? Because when you begin to see that nearly every step you’ve ...

Jeremiah 17:9 NIV A descent into madness I’ve realized over the last several posts that, at least to those outside my mind reading these many words which flow from within the same, it may appear as though I’ve begun to go insane. And to be perfectly honest, I’ve moments in which I myself wonder both just how close I am and too then how far I am away. For in all honesty it does seem as if I am maybe getting closer every day inside what is this way in which my life’s gone in which I go to this amazing place all the time in which I actually delight to find all that I’ve gotten wrong in life. A place seemingly few either know to go or even imagine exists. But as here I sits every single morning trying to find some novel way to present this warning that is His Word as was written for our good, a gift bought by exposing our bad, I feel anymore as if the attempts only grow more desperate, more disparate, more different and thus dissimilar to what seems to still remain the way in which most he...

Isaiah 44:20 NIV A kingdom of stones and bushes and birds that can’t fly And that because we’ve either clipped their wings holding them in our hands or rather just insisted they die, and that two at a time. Because we’ve become all so assured of ourselves and our paths that we never seem anymore all that willing, interested or able to stop and put all our cards on the table. Maybe because we still assume that we’ve the winning hand and simply wish not to reveal our success until we’ve managed to stretch the betting line a little further. Or maybe because we can’t see what all our cards are clearly enough to realize that we’re holding but a suicide king, a two of hearts, the ace of spades, one get out of jail free card (forged obviously) and a draw four from Uno. All of which we’ve pulled seeking to win the hand that is this life from what is the house of cards that we’ve spent this life building into the castle we think it is as it sure looks like one when seen from the right angle. An...