Forged By Faith

Revelation 3:19 NIV cuts through correction To be earnest is defined as doing something with what is “a sincere and intense conviction”. It’s the undertaking of something, anything really, in an obvious understanding as to the overall severity thereof. It’s a certain seriousness that accomplishes within us this willingness to actually give something everything we have, to hold nothing back. And, well, the sad truth is that within this life as we’ve all chosen, yes, chosen to live it, fact is that we seem to have little that means so much to us that to it we trust what is the fullness of us. Which is why He corrects us. It’s why He pushes us, challenges us, changes us in fact. It’s because He alone knows both who we were created to be and thus too the difference and distance now defined by whoever it is that we’ve chosen to choose instead. He knows the image in which we were created as, well, that image is His. We were meant to be like Him, to literally be His children, His offspring, H...

Romans 7:16 NIV cuts through a courageous confession As, well, such is simply the one and only direction in which everything better still awaits. It’s in that place in which we’re not, both as of now and too what we are. And this is entirely a strange place for us to consider, this idea of everything better. And that’s because for our to become something better in what hope tells us is a place better too, we’ve to then lose our usual agreement as to the appeasement found both where and in who we are. Which are both what and where we usually mind not imagining our staying put. Because staying has always proven easier. And it will always prove easier. Staying who we are doing then what we’re doing wherever we’re doing it and for whyever it’s being done, this is to be consistently the easiest thing to do under the sun. Which is why there is nothing new under the sun but rather we walk still inside the replication of what’s now a longstanding rebellion. Indeed, that which has been done wil...

Romans 7:15 NIV continues ahead through confusion Simply because that’s what life’s become. It’s a confusion. It’s a delusion. It’s nothing but a daily decision to make as many things as complicated and confusing as we can somehow convince ourselves we need to confuse. It’s this pattern we repeat in which we choose to lose what is the violent simplicity of all such things as honesty and humility for what are their ongoing and warm-welcoming counterparts. Indeed, it’s as if every single day anymore all but starts with our minds convinced that it’s all falling apart and that because we’ve become entirely convinced that we’re the ones meant to hold it all together. How can this be my sister, my brother? How can we be the ones who hold our lives, our minds, ourselves, our souls together? How can those who’ve proven time and again that we have no idea what we’re doing be then the same as they who somehow manage to at some point prove able to manage that which they’ve only messed up, mistake...

Galatians 5:17 NIV heads left for lessons learned And rather harrowingly those learned most often through what is humility doing its intended task of leading us back to seeing where we went wrong in what’s long been a fight that we knew not we were meant to fight nor then how. For the common approach unto a life is to live it seeking within it only matters of comfort, not competition. Granted, we’ve ended up arriving well within the latter as anymore all that seems to matter is whether we look like, sound like, seem like another, comparing ourselves daily unto those who simply aren’t us. But I guess that kind of only adds to the point. It’s that we’ve all so confused life that anymore all of our time is given unto doing all these things that do nothing for us in return. Indeed, it seems as if nearly our every waking moment is spent lost within this mental debasement in which we seek incessantly our placement in what we then apparently consider a race of sorts, and sadly one in which we...