Forged By Faith

Proverbs 24:12 NIV Nice try But to what avail? What has been the life we’ve lived still behind this veil of opportunities veiled behind this belief in some dire hint of plausible deniability as defined inside of basically everything anymore? Indeed, what is the point of an existence when there’s always an excuse attached as sewn inside the ride from where we are to our never being anywhere else? Are we not tired of trying so hard to entertain this idea that there can always be another excuse meant to excuse our refuse of anything aimed into the better we know well that we still are not? I’m personally sick of trying to hide my life behind this guise of a guy who’s doing just fine and thus knows nothing of the better I could be. Because I know that I’ll not be weighed only upon what I became but also that as measured against what I could have been instead. And yet I stay in bed. I droop my head. I allow myself to some days be led by whomever else comes along with a claim as to a way in ...

Revelation 22:12 NIV Meeting misunderstandings And perhaps two of the largest in the very history thereof. For at this intersection of His proclamation as to the impending reality of His coming back eventually as met with the then quite dire realization as to our now long-standing ability to stay always unready, well, such is where we’re all to find that life has either been lived as if slipping through our hands or we’ve rather thrown up our hands and surrendered our lives to He who gave His for us and did so for us so as to show us both that such can be done but too, that because He who knew no sin chose indeed to so do, so too then how such is what we’re to share in if we’re to share in Him who came to overcome everything. For indeed, as we talked about a bit yesterday, it gets no better than our suffering with sin as such only proves that we're finally on the way to Him. Problem then is met within this meeting of misunderstanding as to both the brevity of such the opportunity a...

1 Peter 4:1 NIV To be done It’s both what we need and thus defines what we need to do, to be done. For to be done describes both the entering focus as placed upon the purpose of something that we apparently feel strongly enough about in regard to the proposed outcome that we feel sternly that it has to be done. And then too it also sees us through the many strong storms and tumbling stumblings that we’re sure to meet along the way unto that day when we can look back in peace and say that we’d by then done what had to be done to by then be done with what was needed to get us where we’ve come. And that itself is perhaps the blanket purpose of all we do or is rather left undone within what is still plenty of life left still to come. It’s for our to come somewhere else at the obvious necessity of the necessary through whatever may lie along the way to what our hope demands defined as a brighter day in a better place. I mean, this is what we all seek for in life, for life is it not? Somethi...

James 1:12 NIV A love deferred And that simply because of choices asked along that harder path we’ve thus seldom seen reason in taking. Indeed, the path toward life’s been deferred with that life lived and left to the wake of 13,685 yesterdays in which our, or in this case my, main choice was to always make the choice later at some random time we had in mind when life might prove either the choice to matter more or rather us more able to make it and not mess it up like all the times before. And indeed, our tendency toward catastrophe has inspired a great deal of deferral in life. But friends, putting something always off onto another opportunity only shows we've agreed to discount the opportunity we have in the moment. And well, when done just long enough this pattern will prove us out of both tomorrows onto which to defer our decisions and thus too chances to do what perhaps always needed done. Which, in this case, is to both embrace what's often clearly God's will as well...

Isaiah 41:10 NIV Problems implied And they as met within what are promises given in the wake of implied warnings. For such is what seems of the many strange ways within which God works for what is the good of those who love Him and are living their lives thus as those called by Him unto the good works that He prepared for them to do in response to all that He’s done and continues to. Yes, He does work in many ways most mysterious, and while the parable as presented in what is a story of sorts is one of the most well-known, I find that it’s verses like this that speak to something of a riddle as wrapped within an inability for most to look deeper. But alas, such is where the marrow of mercy always waits! For indeed, just as much as there is much to faith unseen so too then should we always seek to wonder further and wander there deeper into what is the deepest depths of His design, at least as deep as we creeps might be invited to go. And indeed, He does call us in perpetually close in ...