Forged By Faith

Ephesians 2:14 NIV betrays the barricades Which, in a way, means nothing short of betraying ourselves. And that’s simply because it was us who all but insisted upon the now longstanding separations designed inside the distance from where we started to where we are. And that is in itself something that continues to both lengthen, deepen and, in many ways and that in every day, darken. There’s this ongoing division between man and He who made them that’s allowed them to all but forget Him. A choice chosen on our part because we’ve become of the mind who finds a greater hope in His forgetting us than in His forgiving us. Simply because we’ve become so hostile unto hope itself that we’d rather continue waging this war that is our every worry and want than to lay down such weapons and allow Him to heal our wounds. No, for if we were so healed we might too be helped unto humility and, well, that’s just about the last thing that it seems we’re left able to assume is at all conducive to the wa...

Hebrews 8:13 NIV realizes obscurity’s obsolescence For it soon shall prove to have forever been inevitable that the God of all creation would have created a way for said creation to understand so easily the overall gravity of their having been created that there could not forever remain any vail of confusion nor uncertainty in regard to both His regard for us and so too then our need to have a similar if not shared regard for Him from whom we came thanks to His having created us to be His. It just makes sense. Problem is that we’ve created so many problems and pretenses that all we seem to understand now is, well, problem and pretense. For the both exist in everything that we’ve seen, assumed, considered, estimated, believed in and debated about. Everything that’s had insisted upon it the misfortune of humanity having had its hands on, it’s all now so corrupted and confusing that even something so simple as appreciation for our having been created is anymore so misconstrued that nobody...

Mark 2:21 NIV recognizes the reckoning Because there comes a point, and it does come for each of us, in which we’ll look up and realize both the sheer gravity of our guilt as gained thanks to the sum of all the wrong things we’ve done and there too the necessity then of our changing. And that, well, everything. For when you’re made aware of all the years spent living as if you didn’t, couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t care, it becomes perfectly clear that continuing along within the same mindset sat atop the same course, it would only serve to make everything worse. Even if the outcome were to be our highly prized ideal of staying mostly the same. For what is there to gain inside the choice made to remain so unchanged when what we come to see ourselves as having sadly come to be is indeed something that makes us sad or angry or guilty or ashamed? Why seek to remain any of those things? Granted, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot seem to anymore see...

Luke 14:33 NIV welcomes the loss Among the many oddities that are Christianity, which there are indeed many, one of the most glaring is this entirely unique feeling which I’ve felt along what’s been this walk that I’ve done my best to undertake behind He who undertook such a loss in order for my gain of everything. It’s this odd curiosity as to the necessity of changing the same: everything. And that’s because what we’ve all become is a people who neither change nor delight in curiosity, in wonder as rather the both seem matters of worry and woe. At least as far as we know. But that’s the oddity. It’s that this faith finds for us that we don’t. We don’t know. In fact, one of the strangest gifts given us in this faith spent behind He who gave His life in our place is that it brings with it this humility that all but violently inspires us to at the very least consider that we know less than we’ve long fought to suggest, and even then only agrees to ever there begin. Because the entirety ...