Forged By Faith

James 1:2 NIV To consider is to choose the choice that contemplates, that evaluates, that negotiates the particulars and peculiarities of something be it a situation, circumstance, confusion or contention, seeking inside such considering the good that’s there to be found despite the bad always biting for our attention. And thus for us to consider it pure joy to face trials of many kinds is to set our minds to find the good within even what we want to believe only bad. It’s to make the conscious effort to evoke joy from within a heart perhaps jaded or complacent or fearful or failing as it falls most often in that regard toward that most negative of direction. To consider joy is to choose joy, to pursue joy, to make joy our outcome, the only of which we’re in any way willing to welcome, to want, to win. Yes, to choose joy is to deny all that isn’t conducive to such a stance as happiness. Alas, it’s perhaps too a choice we’ve scantly known thus far in life. For what is joy? What is it to

1 Peter 1:7 NIV Proving thus that faith perish not? It does seem that such is exactly the point and purpose of this path purposed for us to follow both personally and thus too on purpose. Why? It’s worth it. Worth more than everything in fact, even gold, as we see here. For, as we see here, even gold is destined to perish as if it’s found here then it stays here. But faith, no, while faith begins here it’s end is in Heaven, and thus it is indeed worth more than everything worldly that we’ve sadly come to want so much more simply for the ease in which it comes. For it seems that more times than not in life as we’ve come to so sadly assume it best lived, we waste not our attention nor intention upon such things as words and wisdom as they require work and effort, a true humility as formed in the heat of our agreeing that we don’t really know everything and thus have plenty of room to grow and improve. That, and well, we’ve a whole plethora of other problems more perfectly perceived by ey

Isaiah 48:10 NIV Affliction To afflict is defined as an act meant to cause pain or suffering, to “distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish”, to agonize, trouble, injure, irritate, agitate, aggravate, humiliate, humble. Indeed, the now considered antiquated or obsolete meaning of what it is to afflict was to humble or overthrow. And thus affliction is the noun pronunciation of this effort given unto what is an overthrowing of what’s all but proven undermining within these lives we’ve lived as if mines of minds that we assume still might find for us something of some substance that affords us this arrogance that we’ve all but come to be exemplify. And thus to cause us to coast counter to what we’ve become into what is a still raging furnace of affliction is to speak to our general dereliction of what’s always been our duty alone to discharge this life as if it weren’t our own. You know, considering how it isn’t. Alas, this fact has proven perfectly elusive amongst

Daniel 3:25 NIV Unbound and unharmed. It seems there’s a rather constant unraveling of all we think we know and thus feel safe to assume as seen inside this faith that makes the last first and demands the first understand their place as still underneath the feet of He who is the head of what is this body that is the church that carries this torch that tries to tell the world that nothing is done without His involvement, oversight, inspiration, or, in perhaps most cases anymore, condemnation. For there is nothing on earth that isn’t His and thus nothing which happens can happen without His presence or purpose being proven. Even if upside down. I mentioned that idea yesterday in what, looking back, was in many ways, perhaps, one of the most theologically theoretical threads in what is this vast expanse of what’s been just a man trying to convey the endless thoughts and truths that I’m finding Him writing within my heart as it so slowly heals from what’s been a life left to this hell of s

Colossians 1:18 NIV That there may be, in Him, a supremacy, indeed a sovereignty over even the suffering of or to or through what seems a sacrifice of self to the very point of a self’s loss of life. But only because it is. And it’s within this that we can consider the cost of this call as ringing still from within that last place we’ve any of us ever sought to assume a life to be found. And yet it’s within this finding of a life waiting within that last place we’re wanting to go walking that we can now see that He is certainly even a King of what’s now a supremacy over even the loss of life, achieving in that which was lain down the taking up of the counter productivity of a life spent inside the mundane monotony of our mankind assuming its own supremacy. Just without the ability to actually overcome what’s always been our only outcome here. Firstborn from among the dead. This promise, this purpose, this now proven providence so profitable that it only allows left dead all which is pi

Colossians 1:16 NIV The image of the invisible. For in Christ God brought us a perfected reflection of Himself, a sight shown for all who’ve eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart so tired of being shattered by all that is always only lifeless as found within this saddened existence in which the best for which we’ve come to believe is but a betrayal of life itself as held inside the things we hold, the lies we’re told, hoping them to be our home or lead us there to that somewhere in which someone else says our best is still waiting, always ahead as we fall ever behind. Because that is the only coming outcome for all who succumb to staying so blind as we’ve always been and even fight still today to all but remain. Indeed, it’s an amazing thing to think, the foundational understanding found standing within this Scripture. That all things are from Him and thus for Him as it’s all to Him that all things shall return as He is the first fruits of all who’ve fallen asleep within that end th