Forged By Faith

Acts 1:8 NIV Madness, meet meaning. For there is always some reason as to all the Lord does and it typically has something for us to do in light of it having been done. And, well, when it comes to the story of our salvation and the glory of the sacrifice given in order to make it happen, that reason cannot be what we all seem to always be able to still assume most reasons might be. Because sadly we’ve all come upon this confusion in life that’s a delusion of mind in which we all seem always to find that everything that happens to us must thus be all about us. We’re just selfish like that. But the problem is that creation is a really big map and it’s made of so many others, sisters and brothers, who may still be walking according to the map of life we’ve all been handed by a world that’s been handed over to the power of sin and the lord thereof. Yes, God has given man over to our lesser desires for everything, well, lesser. And, well, as the earth is lower than the Heavens and so too ar...

Acts 2:33 NIV A gift from home And as it’s the most expensive ever known, proven only in the Son showing that this life we live is ours on loan, it’s also to become the most priceless of all possible possession as it proves the very start of what begins a progression from what’s been our every broken part in our every broken past that continues on from all of that toward all that He said is waiting at the end of all that is. An end itself seen and shown inside so very much within this rental home in which we live on loan these lives we hold. Seen and shown inside the sights and sounds we somehow come to see and say as are spoken and known of a love that’s grown inside our hearts by at first tearing them all apart. All to begin in us the brand new start that He said He had to reach His end here only to leave and send back that which He knew we’d need to find success along this journey. What journey? The descent into madness that we’ve been talking about for I believe over two months now...

Titus 3:5 NIV with humility’s help For only within humility might we be helped as the life we’ve all known to live, that lie in which we lay in which we live as if we do nothing wrong and can thus never make mistakes nor be proven mistaken, it’s left us all having missed so much in terms of meaning and mercy that having been met with them in Him, we too, at first, felt it was best to back away and belittle. All of us have believed the Good News to be nonsense. We’ve all considered the cross to be some story cooked up to keep us confused and ashamed. We’ve all spent a lifetime building up our name into this thing that needs nothing from nobody. This is the concept of freedom, of fortune, of favor, of everything that everyone down here has come to understand. All our lives we’ve all been told that we’ve to stand alone. That we have to do all we do all by ourselves so that it’s only ourselves who will gain whatever gloating or glory that there is to find within however we determine to wri...

Titus 3:4 NIV everything changed All of the sudden the life you’d been living didn’t seem quite so much like a life worth living. The words you’d been saying sounded different, many of them words you didn’t like the sound of anymore. The thoughts you once thought are slowly replaced with things you never knew you could or should think instead. The things you have start to become just things you have rather than prizes you prize. Your eyes begin seeing things you didn’t see before, even amongst and within things you’d seen before. Everything begins to become so different in Him that you begin to think you’ve gone mad. And maybe you have. Indeed, there are so many days these days in which I catch myself doing, saying, thinking something that I know my old self would have never said or done or thought back when I was who I’m not now and who I am now wasn’t who I thought I could be. In fact there are an increasing number of things that I’ve become and am becoming that my old life, my old m...