Forged By Faith

Hebrews 11:1 NIV The shift Not sure when it takes place nor even how long it takes as rather it’s a change that itself aligns rather well with this word written here. For this turning of a life on its head is something that feels different, seems different, looks, sounds, is different nearly all the time as even time itself begins to take on a quite varied appreciation from what’s long been but a measure of what we think might matter. No, in truth everything changes when He starts changing us via the hope we’re called to have and the strange courage in which it’s had. Because, well, it is entirely unlike anything we’ve ever seen or thus assumed we’ve known. And that’s because most of our lives have found us alive inside what is this mind made of this belief of mainly only that which we can see as seeing is a sensation easily proven. And, well, being a people of pride nearly perfected, we do indeed love those things which we cannot fail or be proven mistaken about. This is in fact why o...

2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV Past the present For the promise has never proven present in either the present nor the past. Rather every promise ever given is one always given for the future as, well, that’s exactly where we’re going and so that seems the very best place to place what is anything measured as a promise. And that’s because all promises are generally considered for something good, helpful, hopeful or elsewise beneficial. Granted, there are more weighty promises that are still considered promises, but they’re more generally considered threats. And make no mistake, sometimes the two walk hand-in-hand. But in general terms each of us have usually at least some say in which we find if even they do. And in truth the two do coexist inside this faith that is in Christ who is in us, or at least died to be so as to help us leave both behind what was/is a life that deserves the more threatening kind of promise as is to be soon proven in eternal punishment and that for what has truly been ...

2 Corinthians 4:17 NIV The hope of hardship Though something of a seemingly unknown concept, the truth is that all hardship exists to remind us of the better, the stronger, the deeper and more devoted, determined, disciplined we were both created to be and indeed still called to become. The struggle it seems comes from the fact that we’ve in fact not become all we can be but are rather a people vastly prone to proving ourselves mostly intent upon only staying whoever, whatever we are and that likely only wherever we stand presently. Why? Because moving is hard, especially when said moving is on. This is something all of us have experienced plenty of times in each of our lives. We’ve all had these things, these thoughts, these theories that just seemed so genuine, so hopeful, so well thought out that we didn’t think there could ever be anything found in their outcomes that could come back to bite us or betray us or break us. But they did. We’ve all experienced dreams dying, plans going ...

Romans 5:3 NIV The weathering It’s something of a matter so easily argued that it’s nothing we need argue over at all. Rather we all know and that because we entirely understand what is the gravity of this life as is poured in this ever-consistent rain which flows in pain, in problem, in punishment and the profit by which we seek the pleasure in which we find this ability, albeit limited in both scope and time, that allows for something of a respite from life. And indeed, all of us have already seen what we likely feel our fair share of the bitter air of a life lived atop what is a battlefield. Whether we see it that way or not. Which is itself becoming something of an irony to be honest. For the honest truth is that there are so many here who live so vastly lost inside this endless assumption as to the general purpose of life itself being something we’re all meant to measure in the matters we think more majestic than others. It’s this theory theorized as our “best life”, an idea we ea...