Forged By Faith

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...

Isaiah 38:17 NIV What is deliverance? Is it some mere transference unto an only slightly altered existence? Is it an instance in which another intends to intervene but only for that moment? Is it a degree of devotion displaying a daring degree of determination determined to render another devoid of danger? Is it a danger into which a stranger wades seeking to win freedom for another at the chosen risk of then their own? Is it something of a personal parceling, packing a person and shipping them to another location, vocation, installation installed there as another altogether? Is it trying to help another keep it all together as from even the outside it seems as if all they are and thus probably too all they know is falling apart? Is it the dedication unto a brand new start that can only ever be given unto someone who at first finally comes to terms with the understanding that where they’re standing is indeed in such need of said new beginning? Does it not come always at the ending of s...

Jonah 2:4 NIV What is determination? Is it the investigation of at least the willingness to try? Is it the audacity to stare risk in the eye and wonder why not rather than why? Is it the courage to consider that there may well be no other choice but to see what you can be? Is it the rarity of a heart that’s able to hold so tight to hope that all it knows is to try for whatever that hope can always become? Is it believing that hope can in fact always become something bigger, better and, in that belief, adamant to find the very outermost of every hope’s extremity? Is it an extreme toward which we go when even hope itself seems all but gone for good? Is it our souls becoming something a bit more unbreakable, unwilling even to bend anymore as we know there is still more that is in store that asks we become relentless in our pursuit there toward? Is it a body able to feel deprived, in danger, filled with doubt and a million miles from nowhere but yet entirely unworried as it knows that it w...