Forged By Faith

Hebrews 11:39 NIV rescinds the acceptance Because, as it turns out, this faith brings with it a whole bunch of questions. Questions such as why? For what? Where you going? From where you coming? Who you been? Who do you want to be? Do our wants really mean anything? Should our wants mean anything? Should the wants of the world then if we maybe agree that perhaps even our own don’t? What rules are we supposed to follow? Where would/will said rules lead? What’s the prize at the end of the journey? Can you even consider it a journey if never you’re found moving? I ask myself questions such as these all the time. In fact I often find that often my mind never stops thinking and learning and thus asking more questions of both myself and the world around me. Even asking questions of the hope within me. Why does it matter? What does it help? Again, where will it go? Where have we gone? Why can’t we all see just how far gone we’ve gone? Do we really like this life that we’re living at the behes...

Hebrews 11:38 NIV reappraises the applause For among the nuance of this narrow is found an awareness as to just how shallow the acceptance of a selfish society can be, if not in fact must be. Because, indeed, this world in which we live is lived in by those who look with approval upon so many things which are in no way so worthy of being approved, appreciated, appraised even, let alone then even praised. And this is because within this place it’s been long since proven that such things as death, darkness and delusion are seen as accepted, expected in all honesty. And we’ve all honestly gone along with that assumption as to the presumptions of everything from purpose to pain, going so very far as to make it our very purpose to avoid pain as we’ve seen inside the estimations of society no need to ever endure such downsides to this life. No, instead we’ve all sought and in many ways seek still to have still good lives as we all still define in line with what all mankind considers to be go...

Hebrews 11:37 NIV aligns with the outside And that, they of any line as has been drawn to divide what is, was, ought to be a single mankind as was made from one Man, one mind, one life in which we were all created alike. Alas we’ve devolved into a mass of mess and mystery each made even in regard to things clearly seen and commonly understood. Yes, we’ve come to become all that He chose to come and has now came to undo through a suffering undue Him but rather due unto us. A message still lost upon most of us. For instead most of us are still against most of what He said, unsure of what He did, unwilling to even look again into the story, seeking there a strange glory gained in going alone through what is a world in which we never have to as there are more than plenty of those who will prove more than friendly to those who do what they do, want what they want, have what they hope to. Indeed, this world paints daily a scene entirely welcoming unto those who welcome the world’s leading. A...

Hebrews 11:36 NIV finds belief outside belonging At least inside this world. And that because if we did belong in this world, to this world then we too are of this world and from this world and if that’s the case and we’re both in but too of this place then our life we have lived to waste not seeking to find fun and friendship within the face of those who pass by along what we believe to be a line that we have walked but now walk no more as we feel inside our bones that there is more in store for those who walk away from the sum of everything that anyone could ever find even should they within this place go everywhere and do everything and find meaning and worth and purpose within the same. Yes, as He does His work that He’s already done for us, the rest just the opening of our eyes there toward, we find that so too are opened our minds to that life in which we seek not to belong here. Because if we did, if we do, then this world is right about something. And if this world is right abo...