Forged By Faith

Ezekiel 36:27 NIV The retracing Of every step we’ve lived taking here atop what’s been an almost nonstop path paved between fun and frustration as was never meant to be the one taken as we were actually never meant to have fallen so far both in love with all that Love isn’t nor then away from He who love is and who is love too as He came to prove in His giving His life to help us see that the way it is isn’t the way it has to be. Rather there’s another way spent toward a brighter day walking in a certain sway that finds a heart happy to leave all it learns was never life. And yeah, that’s a hard idea at first as it first demands we agree we’re lost and thus have only everything the same to lose. But just beyond the shattering of a self we’re sure to find this appreciation of time itself as won within our trading wants for promises and our wishes for wondering only why we didn’t see His violent simplicity before. And then comes the rude realization that reminds us that we did at times f...

Ezekiel 36:26 NIV The replacement Here inside what’s become a life in which we all live as if life itself is meant to be filled, and that sadly with only all that this world is itself filled with, we’ve thus come to assume that anything we lose is something that stands to evidence a failure of sorts. It’s a mistake made whenever we lose something in a world in which everyone seeks to gain as much as they might. And so this call to literally lay down a life in step with He who did the same is something that’s bound to sound fairly strange. Definitely not the kind of thing our kind would ever consider conducive to life as we’ve come to live it. Which is both the point and problem. It’s something of a delusion proven in that we know not what we’re doing and yet we do so much inside our every day that we don’t then have any way by which to gauge what all of it might matter from the majority of it that probably doesn’t. We’ve simply so accepted this assumption as to life’s purpose, or at le...

Psalm 119:37 NIV The relinquishing It’s something of a severe surrendering in which the one doing said surrendering does so noticing that there remains no viable reason to go forward in a continued requisitioning of what they’ve finally come to see isn’t at all something that they can prove as being capable of uplifting or fulfilling as their past pride may have inspired them to believe. It’s a letting go and getting on of and from everything that is that isn’t what is should have been in exchange for the then found freedom of finding something else without all the stress of trying to make seem best what simply isn’t. In other words, it’s a great walking away from the entire sum of everything that may have become all that we never believed it should ever be. And indeed, this is a hard concept for us to consider here inside what is a world in which we all but tether our lives to this trying to find more and more with which to fill them. Indeed, this is the standard victim of every life ...

Romans 13:12 NIV The responsibility It’s obviously something that we’ve all sought to refuse almost exclusively here inside what is a life in which we live as if such things are only detriments to our every delight and desire as are defined by the many things of this world in which we’ve left to live this life, one thus surrounded for still some time with what we watch daily the many around us enjoy and therefore measure as everything from pleasure to success. And thus we’ve come to equate such things as responsibility as only hindrances to what seem unto most here as the very outermost expectancy of even hope and happiness. And as this world has too become us, well, thus too have become our feelings over such matters as these. Indeed, we too, just like the many do, we seem to see through all baser human requirements such as personal responsibility, basic dignity, cultural humility and even common morality unto such an outcome in which such things now seem dumb. Truly, we’ve become a s...