Forged By Faith

Luke 18:8 NIV The question It’s not that as often asked of man in regard to either where or what God is nor why He does as He does if He is there to be found in that strange somewhere that thus matches the workings in which this gift wars. Nor is it that as pondered upon the persistence of problem as proven all but perfectly reliable in what has become a way of life in which war is what we do so often seem to see if not in fact feel inside. No, the question isn’t even one to be asked by us at all. Rather the question in question is that to be asked of us. And granted, it seems quite clear to see that amongst this sea there are indeed a very great and quickly growing many who do remain caught within all of these confused considerings such as where God might be as asked as if we might prove the ones to find Him. Others are asking what He is as if He’s meant to be something so small as to actually fit inside of our understanding. Some seek to understand a bit more of faith before ever agr...

Romans 3:3 NIV Unchanged And it’s not us. For there exists a mindset manifest amongst men in which we think so much about such things as equality that we’ve lost the understanding of the quality of equity as is seen for its importance only within the undertaking of edification as is the standing call placed still unto all. And this line of thought and theory has left us all quite clearly of the mind in which we seem to find that our being like God is still something of a possibility, even if not one that we can seem to prove very easily. For the ease of task matters not unto those elsewise convinced that the outcome will prove of the promise for which we hoped along the way through whatever may come our own. No, for there’s also a staunchness to at least some human belief that is in fact so wanting to achieve this idea, this dream that we, even though vastly lazy and often even more lost, even we become of the willingness to endure whatever it may take to help us reach the home of this...

2 Timothy 2:13 NIV The realization It’s something blending in seven parts humiliation, five consternation, four concern, two sorrow and ten confusion. And sure, there are several other little aspects and attributes to be attributed to this assimilation unto humility and thus out of our own arrogance as will come to be better understood along the way toward wherever this Way may go. And what’s in fact often the first that we’ll find is that of fear as found in neither our knowing where it is that we’re going nor then how we might possibly get there should we get turned around along the way. In fact, all we’ll eventually come to know, and that many times over, is that we can’t get there. That’s the terror of both what we’re trying and also why so few are. It’s proven in that we can’t. We’ve simply not the ingredients needed to ensure this recipe turns out as anything other than what we’ve already proven well capable of making. Which is mostly just mistakes, mayhem, misunderstanding, a ve...

Isaiah 59:16 NIV The intervention Of such a grand intention that it demanded the very invention of a brand new direction as was thus never before decided by any of all who’ve had always a chance to choose what His choice so clearly was. For indeed, death to self was always a need made necessary whenever a self seems to assume that itself is all that matters. After all, when we find it in us to do as He doesn’t, we’ve both done something actually amazing but the amazing is actually amazingly corrupted. For it was never His intention for any of all of His creation to have so created this alteration unto a life’s investigation that we seek daily this continued insinuation that our destination is to be determined by us alone. Yes, His destination at which we were aimed right from conception was to walk with Him forever, basking endlessly in the goodness of His then ever-present kindness as poured now seemingly always behind us as we battle ahead into the betrayal of even ourselves in what’...

Isaiah 59:15 NIV The destination And indeed, it does seem as if we have arrived and that apparently, as is always the case, right on schedule if not ahead of time having both departed from wherever it was that we started and made too good time along the way. Just perhaps not good use of such. Yes, such is sadly what I fear most often anymore. In fact it’s not even the destinations at which we arrive in life as they’re always but stopping points along a journey that doesn’t, or at least hasn’t yet. No, my worry is won within knowing one day it will and that I will then be left so thin in regard to time itself that I’ll only be able to look back on all I did when I’d had more and wonder, regretfully I worry, why I’d not done more with what more I’d had back when I had more to give. More to live. Yet what is life? What defines best this place of which we have arrived in what is a life? Is it alive? Are we? Sometimes it seems, but alas those sometimes are scarce and perhaps even scared at ...