Forged By Faith

Jeremiah 51:6 NIV Free to flee And that simply because it’s becoming quite clear to see that we can only be free when we do flee. And that simply because if we were to stay then we would stay in what is a lost way that can thus find nothing other than what’s already been. And that simply because that which already is and/or always was is exactly what the world in which we walk wants to keep seeing, doing, being. And that simply because there is indeed nothing new under the sun as all things without the Son are still the same as almost everyone loves. And well, it’s simply all but impossible to convince someone to flee from what they love. For what sense does that make? I mean, surely we know what we like, do we not? We at least sure seem to. In fact this idea is all but proven every day in every way in which the world around us anymore all but resorts to violence in order to safeguard their every assumption as to their love of something. We’re even to the point of literally warring ove...

Jeremiah 51:45 NIV For and from Because sometimes in life a choice is made both to and toward. And indeed, the case of our faith is by all means one of those things that both begins and ends with what truly is a choice as is made to both go and leave as, well, you really can’t do one without the other. And that’s simply because such is the defining identity that makes any and every journey into the journey it’s sought to be. For nobody seeks to take a trip to someplace without the understanding that it means they’ve to leave wherever they already are. Though, granted, we have even tried to make this idea come to life. Yeah, we’ve now this idea of a staycation in which we plan a vacation spent staying where we already are, thus shifting the very premise of vacationing into something that’s more readily taken as opposed to the commonly held, and quite well understood expense of what would be a normal vacation without the stay. All because we all know well the cost of leaving. It’s one pa...

Revelation 18:4 NIV A part or apart? For in truth such are the only two options when it comes to living a life, and indeed either are to be considered both such extremes that we should in fact seek their extremities. Problem then is that we’ve since chosen to chase the many extremes of the many scenes seen inside the things shown of a world that’s grown only deeper in its chosen contention against the God of all creation. And so our having chosen to chase the world’s way of what is a life lived to waste itself has left us each holding what is too a wasted life. All because we settled for the wrong space to place our pursuit. See, that’s truly the only difference in those two words that define the only two choices we have whilst in this world. It’s the space. And yet it’s also that of a proverbial table flipped as well. Because, well, the space seen in the choice labeled “a part” ironically denotes a lack thereof. There is no space in our being a part of this world for said pursuit all ...

James 1:27 NIV Beholden But alas to anymore only the god of public opinion and a fear of everything from personal responsibility to even public security as is often awarded to only those already well in line behind the billions of those blinded by such betrayals to our created calling as politics and offense. Yes, these days we bow before a horde of hopes all being held as if carrots by those intent to lead us both further into this world and its ways and thus further from the hope for better things aimed toward brighter days. No, we seem to know nothing any longer of those blessings spent yonder beyond that line of seeing mankind as either friend or foe. If only we could know that they’re perhaps to be for a while both, and thus too both our calling and that in contention. Indeed, I believe there ought to be something of a grating, a grinding, a finding of oneself the problem, the issue, the challenged challenger challenging the currents currently corroding our culture. There should b...

James 1:26 NIV Unto the beholder Such is where all but all of life is all but all defined, in the eyes of the beholder. We’ve often heard this string of words spoken in regard to beauty and how what is to one beautiful thus needs not any agreement from any other as beauty is something that is to be quite a unique perspective as purchased by a single person through what are their eyes and likes alone. And while this is often something considered from an outward adornment point of view, I contend that the same can be said of that which is inward too. For contrary to our culture’s considerings, or rather lack thereof these days, beauty is not but a skin-deep discernment. No, beauty is a trait which plumbs fully to the core of a person. Right to the soul. Alas this is where we all so scarcely go in search of either what or where beauty could be. No, rather we again as people who exist upon the superficial must thus seek for such a gift as beauty and purity and morality even upon the surfac...