Forged By Faith

Ephesians 5:6 NIV Sons of wrath And daughters too for God’s a God of such supreme fairness and equality that He’s long since promised unto all of humanity a literal come to Jesus meeting in which we’re all guaranteed to there and then finally receive what is that great comeuppance we’ve all so fervently fought to both forsake and forget. Why? Because we’ve both earned it and, well, there’s got to be some sort of justice in light of our having just given up on our being even anything remotely close to who and what and where He created us to be and called us to stay. Which was at first a people who loved Him enough to do as He asked and stay away from that tree, a people who’ve since come to eat so much of said fruit that we love Him not and the world He created has thus began to rot thanks to routines so raunchy and ridiculous that our raucousness is now the perfect grounds for His grinding us into the dust toward which we’re all now promised to return. Wasn’t His first idea. Rather at ...

Colossians 3:5 NIV What’s normal isn’t And yet to us it is, or at least it sure seems to be. For there are indeed so many things that so many are doing so constantly, so continually, so communally that they do seem to form some sort of normality. After all, what else are we to understand when something such as, say, ‘cancelling’ someone else is done so often as it is anymore? Does not the frequency in which something is happening define best the normality thereof? Are we not indeed a people of such measurements as typicality and the reality it so often seems to insist upon? Sadly we are. We are very much just such a people who do indeed do such things as lean at first heavily upon such things as normality if not then, at some point, all but exclusively upon the society that’s sure to become consumed by the same. And why is society all but assured to fall prey to the doing of things that the majority seem to deem the “normal way”? Because we can all readily understand this now longstand...

1 John 2:16 NIV For life isn’t life At least not the way(s) in which we’ve come to live it. Rather it feels as if life itself is anymore but a victim of the many things in which and with which and for(?) which we all seem as if we’re trying not to lose it. Because that’s pretty much all that it seems we’re trying to do these days. And yet as we sit here at what is the start of what will probably amount to most as just another yesterday, well, it seems then that all we can find, know, be or become is but whatever it is that it already was. And this is because it seems that all but all of life has become just a routine in which we do always the same things seeking the same things that we’ve either already sought or indeed previously found. And sure, perhaps we’re assured that whatever it is that we’re either looking for or rather now looking not to lose thanks to our having found the same, maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe we have somehow stumbled unto, onto, into the best way to live a l...

Isaiah 52:11 NIV Run from your life That’s not really something that ever really seems something that anyone ever seeks or assumes they might need to. No, for indeed every single life as has ever been lived within this world has been lived within the belief that we are free. And that because simply we’re all anymore so simple as to continue to assume that freedom means only our continuing to do whatever it is that we’ve come to believe we ought to. And that’s usually nothing more than whatever makes us happy or elsewise causes us to feel good. And thus freedom is often seen as nothing more than a symptom of satisfaction, or perhaps satisfaction a symptom of freedom. Either way the two are clearly connected if not at this time nigh inseparable. At least that’s how it seems from inside this scene in which we see all of every life being lived. Not that we can actually see the sum of everything everyone’s ever done as we’re not God, though we do like to imagine we are sometimes. And yet th...