Forged By Faith

Micah 3:4 NIV Hidden Because such are not we then as of now has He decided that still will He be. And indeed, it’s no wonder as to why He has so determined to hide. In fact, for now it might be for our benefit. And that’s because His choosing to hide his face from us has given us a little more time to reach for a mirror by which to find what we’ve become and see in said reflection our infection and determine for ourselves then to no longer hide from the truth that says we’ve not only nothing to lose, but that because we’ve already lost all we once had. All because we became a people so willing to imagine that we’re hiding. We’re not. And, well, upon this day that seems to be the scariest story of them all. For despite all the tales to be told on this day of all hallows, the true horror is the tale which follows what are a dead people living in between two ghosts, living so wickedly that neither wants anything much to do with them as they’ve lived in such sin that they’ve not really any...

Judges 10:13-14 NIV But when And no, as we discussed yesterday, such is not a question but in fact now a promise as was at first given us as it was given them who had then the opportunity to turn and repent via the manner prescribed which involved them going out to those insisting they die. And yes, that remains in every way the horrific request as it comes not as an idea in which He’s tried to suggest that such might happen to be one of many options that can work, all of which can save you and me. No, rather this is a guarantee that both trouble is coming and the only way to survive it is to at first admit we’ve ourselves lived to invite it. Then to welcome it to the tune of whatever turmoil or tragedy such degeneracy may demand. I’ve been reading through Jeremiah for days now, those many chapters leading up to the world’s favorite 29:11. Indeed, not there yet on this run through, but what I have come to is this conclusion in which, as we’ve discussed in the past, context matters more...

Jeremiah 11:12 NIV Not if No, for truth is that we’re no longer deserving of such a potential for our collectively avoiding what we’ve all but collectively demanded He disprove in what are ways of being evidenced that can literally only be proven via either the happening of nothing or rather a complete and utter destruction. And indeed, it’s a very strange thing, this world in which still we walk asking God still to talk and tell them all they want to hear as is to be heard by ears unwilling to listen. Not unable, no, though there are some who do have such literal disabilities. Just unwilling. Which is to be proven someday itself quite disabling, but not in terms such as hearing or seeing as in the sights and sounds of both a world falling down and a Word crying out to come and find refuge from the rage of this place. No, what will rather be proven is an eternal inability to escape the coming calamity. For there is said to be only a great weeping and gnashing of teeth upon that day in ...

Jeremiah 11:11 NIV Unanswered Seems anymore that I think about God’s fairness all the time, and yet what I seem to find is that in it exists a worry that I truly cannot seem to escape. For while I’m doing my best to do all I can to try and understand the depths of His mercy, patience and forgiveness, I can’t seem to escape from my understanding of why all of the above exist. And that is that while they’ve all become almost something of religious clichés, the truth is that they’re not these pretty words we’ve made them out to be. Rather they’re all words of war. And that’s because, let’s take mercy for example, it’s something defined as “charity, clemency, grace, leniency as based upon a disposition to show kindness or compassion” in fact a compassion that “forbears punishing even when justice demands it.” Or how about patience. Patience is considered “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed, anxious or angry.” Forgiveness is literally t...

Jeremiah 11:10 NIV The Conspiracy That of an entire culture, the whole of creation conspiring oddly together against the very One who called them thus but rather to the rusted lust of misplaced trust and truth, hope and proof that we’re somehow doing right via doing wrong and thus able to perceive, societally, that wrong is right and light is dark and we’ve then no heart to endure the sound of a teaching found in ways which our ears remain willfully unwilling to hear. No, around here we continue our working together to work against the work done by the One who calls us at first unto some rest and then into our rest from there. Our culture’s problem is that His rest is from our workings, leaving us thus unsure as to how we’re supposed to earn the rest that is said to be ready having been prepared as if a place before enemies. An issue further confused in that for most of our lives our chief opponent has been whomever opposes any of the doses we’ve prescribed to take or been prescribed t...