Forged By Faith

Matthew 7:23 NIV Workers of iniquity For any work that is done without the reason being the Son cannot then equal what has already been done because, well, nothing can match the mercy met in such misery as was met upon our place upon that cross that was the cost that both we owed but that He paid so that we might be then freed to spend our days doing only those things, in fact doing all things unto the glory of He alone who walked that road for what was our redemption and that as was purchased through such pain and suffering that for us to now do anything in word or deed without Him being the purpose, such a doing is worthless. It’s even worse than worthless for it’s lawless. It’s wickedness, evil in every form for us to have both found and to continue finding all of these ways to continue thinking that we deserve any say in this story of our salvation. Because, honestly, how can those who’ve done the things from which they needed to be saved thanks to their having even prior been the ...

Matthew 7:22 NIV Busy with unbelief And that simply because it’s become entirely too easy and thus too common and thus too normal for us to believe that the things we do might matter. In fact, the very idea of our actions perhaps meaning something, making a difference, inflicting a change or imposing a point has become one of the most common beliefs shared amongst man. Why? Because what we do does matter, especially here. And that’s because the things we do, words we say, even the thoughts we think bring with them real-life and often real-time outcomes. In truth all of this life that we’re all here going through, it’s a true experiencing of what is cause and effect in which what we do does mean something in the way of a result found. Problem is that we’ve all become so focused if not in fact utterly fixated on said results that life itself has resulted in this outlook that has us all but entirely sure that there’s always something we say or think or do that might hopefully help change ...

2 Thessalonians 1:9 NIV Forever away But just how far is forever? How long is an eternity, not in terms of time, but rather in lay and line? How many miles make up a mystery? How many steps must one take to break away from that which doesn’t end? How might we make the trip from a place we didn’t send ourselves but found all on our own? Can one truly exchange a home held in the heart and mind for another life of another kind in another place outside of time? How much time would it take to scale the fence that separates that which is everlasting from that that’s only unending? Doesn’t one sound better than the other? Everlasting and unending. Sadly I would venture to guess that they for now sound the same to us. For where we are is lost in this lack of novelty thanks to all the nuance and noise and nonsense that sings daily around us that same song it’s sung for all those who’ve too walked the way we have in what are lives that we’ve lived the way they did. And that it what it so sadly i...

Matthew 25:41 NIV The last domino In what is this game we play of life in which we all choose to live through most days and as many nights as if most things don’t matter all that much and sadly that nor do those around us. For we seem to have found inside of us this ability, this opportunity, this excitement even concealed inside the same to remain so plain atop this plane of what is a place so filled with chances to be rather the changes that I pray we can still see this world so desperately needs. Changes that daily slip through our fingers while we’re all busy building our little ruins in the making. Each day a domino lined up too precariously close in both time and appearance unto the last, leaving them all to fall as one whenever we’re broken before the Son who we too overlooked simply because we were too focused on all that will have by then failed us. In what are to be then lives condemned to share in the devil’s destination thanks to every wayward desire, every wicked demand, e...

Matthew 25:40 NIV The least of these So many times it still seems we see only a necessity in seeking the favor, honor, friendship of royalty. We’ve become so amazed by the grandeur and awe of nobility and governance and power that we almost instinctively assume that those who hold such positions are those that we should seek to be like and to get there by showing how much we adore them. We even plaster our cars in stickers showing off our support of whatever suit happened to capture our heart and win our vote. Lost perpetually in the process of people pleasing people and that through pride and opulence as such are the very uppermost ideals held by all. Indeed, for the same lie we’ve all fallen and daily fall. It’s that one which tells us that there’s something of a hierarchy in life and that, however it may be that we and our pride may measure it, whatever the different levels may mean, it all aims to accomplish the very same thing. And that is to find for us what are those ways in whi...