Forged By Faith

Isaiah 8:14 NIV No escape For where can you go to get away from what another knows you know? How might you outrun the One who goes before and behind? Where might you find a place to hide from He who sees the heart? How is it that we remain so convinced and easily so that we can somehow manage to together our lives hold that we know are falling so wonderfully apart? When could we start to just let it all fall if we knew that it would anyway and that upon a day of not our own choosing nor volition but rather in accord with His timing and provision? What all would we see if we would simply agree to let this life be the misery it’s meant to be? Alas so many days we give to trying our best to make things better both for us and around us and this makes sense from where we stand as, well, here we’re stood. We’re living lives that are mostly going good and so this allows easily that considering that with just a little planning and perhaps a bit of polishing our place here would be pretty much ...

Romans 9:33 NIV A simple difference Issue is that it’s not in any way simple for a people who so easily confuse that which is simple for that which is supposed to be easy. And indeed, I believe that this difference, though perhaps subtle, is one altogether best seen inside the scene that is our faith and/or chosen, yes, chosen lack thereof. And I believe that to have a lack of faith is a choice because we all have both the ability and the opportunity, as well as the promise of enduring a great many things that make it a vital necessity, to have faith as is placed in another. Which, granted, is clearly a rather large part of the problem seeing as how we’ve all come to absolutely adore the idea that we can do all of this all on our own. And, granted, we sort of can. After all all of us have in fact lived at least a portion of our lives getting by, and that perhaps probably alright, all on our own as in under our own strength as was given to only our own plans which are pretty much always...

Acts 4:11 NIV Overruled Because, well, truth is that God’s not persuaded by the arrogance of man nor is He in any way to prove ever inclined toward listening to, learning from nor looking for ways to please those who continue walking in it as is proven in every life that’s ever been lived by those of us, who are all of us, who have indeed lived as if Christ were neither a need nor even a thought. And in all sadness this is something that has defined all of us and how we’ve gone about at least a portion of our time here. We’ve all rejected Him, refused Him, ignored Him, maybe even mocked those who believed in Him before we did. Why? I personally think it’s because deep down we all know inside our bones and their marrow that “anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces” whereas too “anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” And, well, human logic has us all pretty much convinced that neither of those is in any way an outcome worth wanting and so, well, we’ve just all chosen t...

1 Corinthians 3:11 NIV Building betrayals And they of ourselves and that of our eternities and this in terms of time itself as is both here given but here wasted upon what is this outlook that has us all all but convinced that our little remaining time is somehow best spent upon doing whatever it is that we’re doing, most of which is still done outside the Son and far from the same. And why? Because He remains so utterly different from all this world is and does and inspires us too to daily do. He is still doing something new and that for only everyone who undertakes their being taken away from what will remain in and of this place. At least until there are but remains of this place left after this place has inevitably passed away. And that’s the confusion that we continue to miss inside this delusion that is this life that we just keep designing. It’s that everything we’re doing, when done for only reasons or rewards found on this earth and thus in this life, it will be undone, left b...

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 ...