Forged By Faith

Hebrews 11:13 NIV realizes the reason Simply because to all things there must be one. Everything has to have a reason as to why it happens, when it happens, why we feel the way we do whenever it does whatever it does whenever it does. There has to be a purpose, a point, a promise or punishment to all things as nothing can exist without there being a need for it. All things must do something and have too then a reason for being created to do whatever it is that they’re here to do. Because God’s not just going around coming up with all this stuff just to have stuff to come up with. Granted, He is the Creator and so it would seem reasonable that as a creator our Creator just enjoys creating. But still, even His own Word reads to everything there is a time and a season. And so why then would such times and seasons be given unto all things if not because all things have only a season in which they mean something and a time in which to mean it? In fact, does not the brevity of all things len...

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...