Forged By Faith

Psalm 104:29 NIV We huff and we puff Probably because we know that one day He will take these lives away from us. And, well, we’ve become of the mind that these lives are ours, a lie in an accordance with we’ve lived for so long now that the promise of our leaving this earth seems the promise of only a jerk. Because the simple truth is that we all enjoy these lives. We love the act of living. In our opinion living a life is something we’re all fairly good at, something that we’ve been doing long enough, and with success enough, that we feel as if we’re somehow owed the opportunity to go on living them for however long we may want them. Losing the promise of eternity within our hurry to always keep doing whatever little it is that we’re still willing to try and that alongside our appreciation for the fact that this life we have is an opportunity that we’ve been given. And, well, bad things happen whenever you start to become unappreciative. Especially should it get to the point in which...

Isaiah 2:22 NIV A path personal. Or at least that’s what I believe this faith is supposed to be. For indeed, what else might it be if it’s to be anything that means anything to anyone seeing as how everyone is something different, someone different from everyone else? I mean, while we may all have quite a few shared interests or common goals or even an appreciation for certain cultural pursuits, even these things are still likely to be seen or heard or considered in slightly different ways by all who take part in them or allow them a part in them. Because we’re all unique people who’ve our own personal blend of understandings and confusions, delights and delusions through which all that we see and do and hear and think must always wobble and weave. And yet anymore we spend so much time sectioning ourselves off into what are all these little groups to whom or amongst whom we enjoy feeling as if we belong. It’s something we do in regard to everything from identity politics to our nationa...

1 Corinthians 2:5 NIV With the help of humility For as it turns out such is the only hope for humanity. And that’s simply because conventional wisdom teaches us that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And thus the shortest, quickest and so too the easiest path toward everything better that we’ve never become is a straight line in the opposite direction of this we’ve so clearly chosen culturally. Indeed, the very best way for us to ever find, feel, be or become anything better is to make a b-line back to all we’ve left behind. Because it should be easy enough to find considering all we’ve not found ever since and, on top of this, that we’ve hopefully found plenty of reasons as to why what we’re doing now simply isn’t working. The fact that not much is working pretty much being the only real reason we should ever really need. Because life was never meant to be whatever this is that we now call a life. In fact I find that I’m found most days with this obviously c...

1 Corinthians 2:4 NIV Madness, meaning, meet meekness. For the path ahead of us is not one for the strong among us nor the wise beside us nor the boldness or bravery within us. Rather the combination of the sheer narrowness of the path which is the Way and the true nearness of what is the Day in which the Way will return, it’s become entirely too lean for a people of such pride to learn. And so instead this path, this Way, it, He asks we lean upon He who was and who is and who is to come to be the One to take the spotlight within our lives as we then live them for Him who died back then for us. A gift given unto all but sadly still one that only changes few. At least in the way that it was intended to. And that’s because the hope of Heaven is held inside our humility. The promise of eternity enters humanity through hearts humbled unto at first seeing their fragility as is founded upon our every foolishness and folly. The glory of grace as was given us in that place that was our grave, ...