Forged By Faith

Psalm 119:37 NIV Waiting for worth It’s something that seems somehow increasingly hard to do in what remains a world in which so much seems to be worth so much to so many. And as we walk daily alongside those many who are seeming to find this wealth in all they believe to have worth, we eventually start wondering both where ours might be and why we’ve not found it yet. After all, whenever everyone else seems to barely even struggle to find even such things as joy and purpose, well, after a while you just can’t help but wonder what you’re doing wrong. Or maybe that’s just me. Which is indeed something that I find I don’t struggle to imagine anymore. And that’s because I sit here on the floor every single morning, eyes all but bugging and often stinging as I try to convince myself I’m a morning person despite the aching inside saying always otherwise. And because I sit here writing what are posts that I can easily imagine almost nobody reads as the numbers don’t lie. And because I don’t ...

1 Thessalonians 4:7 NIV A life apart When boiled down to its inevitable simplicity, I really do have to say that I truly believe that this is the very purpose of God’s heart for we who are meant to be His as opposed to here where it so often feels as if He isn’t. And it’s not because He really isn’t here as He is rather omnipotent which defines then His ability to be omnipresent which allows Him to be everywhere, in everyone in fact. It’s just that the problem’s that we’re in a world in which most continue to refuse that offer, that outcome for what are an as of yet untold number of others. And what often makes it all that much harder, heavier, heartbreaking in fact is that these same many do indeed look like us, talk like us, walk like us and perhaps even seem to love like us. But this is where things tend to get murky as, well, since both looks and language can be used to deceive, unfortunately then so too might the same be said of love. Not that it should be that way as it most cert...

James 1:21 NIV A chance to choose Granted, there are those who believe, and perhaps rightly so, that we have very little say in regard to the way in which this life goes. And this seems quite true for the most part as it seems that at each day’s start we’re already well behind in regard to both time and mind as are both found in the only place that both either will be or have already been mostly only lost. And indeed, time here is something that we have absolutely no vote in regard to as rather we’ve each a specific measure that we ourselves didn’t decide nor determine. Does seem as if we have had at least some say in regard to all the ways that we’ve lost our minds thanks to how we’ve spent said time. And I say this because I think we’ll all look up to one day find that, when stared at the past looking back at us from where we are as will hopefully be different than we have by then become, we had plenty of opportunities to make the changes we have well before we had. And I say this be...

Romans 8:13 NIV Now or later Because the promise is that we’re all going to find that there is no never. No, rather faith will eventually prove itself both a necessity and yet oddly too a choice we’ve all lived to choose. And this is something seen inside a scene always shown of a world that’s grown to hold such a low estimation of every such belief as is held in anyone, anything that is in anyway not ourselves because, well, around here self is all that sells. And having become a people all but born to buy, so then have we in life. Indeed, all of us have grown of that seed as has been shown in a world that still delights to show that delights are the very fabric of life itself and thus are what hold together basically the sum of every hope that anyone here dares to have. And that’s all well and good until you finally look up from your own personal chase to and through a life lived to waste what was our every chance to do something other than whatever we have, chances we’ll never have ...

Ephesians 5:7 NIV Undercomplicated Not to say that it’s not still complicated as it most certainly is seeing as most things in life are. Rather it’s just saying that maybe it’s not nearly as hard as we’ve all so often imagined it to be. For what if, instead of trying to see it through all the confusions and delusions that we’ve designed inside these times, we sought to see it through the simplicity of simply doing all He’s always asked us to? Again, wouldn’t necessarily make any of it any easier. But I dare say it wouldn’t make it any harder either. And that’s because faith is actually a supremely simple calling. It’s so simple in fact that all it really asks is a childlike blend of hope, trust, patience and belief. All of which are things that all of us offer to a great many things both throughout our lives and that every single day. Indeed, we are all giving these things away to things all the time that actually haven’t anything of everything that He’s not only already promised but a...