Forged By Faith

Isaiah 14:13 NIV A pride’s plans Unto the end they know nothing of the same as, as far as ego is always to be concerned, there is nothing about which to be concerned. There is no harm coming, no danger to be found, no pain to be felt other than that of what’s come in the form of this world letting us down via the refusing to adhere to what is our way in which we want what we think are our lives to go. Indeed, if only everyone else could come to know what we think we do, we’d all be living perfect lives filled with so much power and opulence that nothing would be able to ever bring us down. For it seems that ivory towers know only to grow higher and higher. And indeed, this has been the very plan of every man ever since the devil got it in our heads that not only could we be more but that we deserved to be. That we were being shortchanged in those lives lived without need of change. That somehow we’d be better off were we to have the power that our prior perfection never knew we never n...

Amos 9:2 NIV Outrunning inevitability Amazingly, despite the overall obviousness of our reality, this remains something that we all still clearly consider an in every way feasible ability. In fact it’s something that we all act as if it’s not merely feasible but in every way factual. That we can prove of the actual power to outmaneuver God, to outwit Him, outlast Him, make it out alive without Him. That we don’t need Him, can run from Him, hide from Him, manage to keep from Him both our many flaws and mostly only ourselves who are the ones who wish always to do nothing about them. Indeed, we’ve all lived, perhaps live still, as those who think they neither owe the bill and yet could pay it easily were it to somehow come due thanks to all that we’ve learned to do that we likewise think we can do well enough to accomplish more than enough to leave us looking Him in the eye with an expectation that He blinks first. Friends, that’s not how this is going to work. No, there is no amount of w...

1 Thessalonians 5:3 NIV The obliviousness of the obstinate There’s a very particular blindness borne by a people of pride that allows their eyes to see everything at once and yet nothing at all. It’s this almost superpower that allows a person to, well, be “ever seeing but never perceiving”. This ability as brought unto us all by every opportunity we’ve been given thus far to have seen from afar the finality that is our fatality as will find us falling into whatever forever may be and wherever forever may lead has elsewise found from us a blind eye wanting to not see such an end to all our fancy, fun frivolity. No, and this is because it’s obvious that those enjoying themselves, those experiencing what they perceive to be “peace and safety” have then no reasons to assume they’ll be found met with their opposites. And that’s because, for here at least, we never really have been. Granted, we’ve all had those days in which not everything went our way. Those days where things were harder t...

Deuteronomy 32:35 NIV What is time? Down here we know it as a measure of our moments, the distance that a breath goes and the amount of patience it takes to get there. It’s something we measure in minutes which are both broken up into seconds and yet also added up unto hours and then hours themselves collect into days which group themselves together into weeks of which four or more become months of which each year has twelve, a decade defined as a gathering of ten years and ten decades into a century and a century about as long as any of us ever possibly had to begin with. Way back when our unique portion of time was began in what’s since become a life in which said time has been running out thanks to our collective running away. And that from God. This is the journey we know as sin. It’s this choice chosen within to do contrary to what our Creator calls. It’s a heart refusing to humble itself unto the hope of a hope had later, seeking instead one nearer, easier, seemingly then better ...

Romans 2:5 NIV Avoiding the unavoidable It’s something we’ve all tried to do. Something that we’ll all try again. And that because we’ve been born and bred within this belief that is in reality nothing but a doubt as to the power, the authority, the authenticity maybe of another having or being more able or perhaps better capable than we are or at least enjoy assuming we might be. Indeed, we’re all of this belief that we can do things better and thus determine better results in the end of a matter by the time we reach said matter’s end. We live as if we have a say in how things go and where they go to and what all we’ll find and feel once we get there. And to some extent we’re right. Only problem is that that isn’t something to be proud of necessarily. And that’s because, well, the gift that is free will as allows us all to choose what we do and to do it for however long we want it done, it does give us a profound freedom found and felt down here under the sun, a freedom within which e...