Forged By Faith

1 Peter 4:1 NIV What is unanimity? Is it some mere matter of a mass of people agreeing to agree? Is it this shared ability, for however short and in whatever way, to see the same thing in the same degree? Is it the degree in which we do agree being for once seen as of plausibly more importance than our tendency to not? Is it finding within us the audacity to agree with something that we know we’d usually not? Is it not a measure of humility as such must exist for us to so come alongside anyone else in what is a share of that for which they care, a joining together of considerations aimed at the same outcome for a time? Is it a time to set aside our many internal differences and debates and simply let both courage and curiosity have their way? Is it not today, the day in which we do still have said time to seek for our share of His mind who came to where we live this life so as to live one too but only to do as we’d not done so that we could see inside of how He’d lived His something di...

Philippians 1:29 NIV What is clemency? Is it a tendency towards showing mercy that thus all but demands they who are thus show it then to all of us? Is it something then of an all but foregone conclusion even if it can then be diluted as something we can, and will, take for granted? Is it a line of lenity given unto the lost who themselves, being lost, haven’t any idea what lenity even is nor then how to use it as they cannot possibly understand its purpose? Is it something done on purpose as all mercy must be or rather a gift given with a decidedly more measured expectation than mere praise and appreciation? Is it the sufferance of someone else agreeing to suffer either with us or perhaps for us, or, in our case, to suffer through us doing as we all so clearly know we shouldn’t? Is it lenience which allows us to do what we shouldn’t whilst then enduring what we don’t agree we should knowing that the combining of both is the only true hope of our both finding and becoming something bet...

1 Peter 1:6 NIV What is sufferance? Is it something of a suffering made so personal that it becomes our expected normal? Is it a growing tolerance of those things in life we grow to tolerate simply because we haven’t really any other choice? Is it a concession chosen unto the chaos of life causing life to remain chaotic without our continuing to seek aimlessly for ways around it? Is it the facing down of failure and fear with a smile where hung the frown we’d usually wear? Is it perhaps even our wanting to be worn, weary, worried and that both by this war and too that it might end before we’re ready? Is it determining to be never ready to quit but rather always interested in staying invested no matter the investment? Is it investing our comfort as what becomes a willing sacrifice offered unto the reality that this life isn’t supposed to go right, a humbled appreciation for the truth of this emplacement? For the truth is that we’ve all been placed here in what remains a place where we a...

Hebrews 12:7 NIV What is endurance? Is it some measure of physical capacity that’s determined by such things as a pace in a race? Is it the ability to withstand that which seems intent upon seeing if we can? Is it the ability to stand in the face of that which is adamant that we can’t? Is it the asking of someone to accept something seemingly unacceptable? Is it the accepting of something that we’d rather not admit we’re somewhat appreciative of having to hold? Is it the ability to hold our breath or ensure our strength doesn’t run out until the time’s run out in whatever competition we’ve entered or been entered in? Is it as simple as a person competing only against themselves and our self’s tendency toward seeking always for such things as the ease of personal safety and the simplicity of ongoing comfort? Is it the knowing that comfort can only take us as far as we’re willing to allow our weakness to define us, a junction created thanks to our willingness to always let it decide for ...