Forged By Faith

Acts 4:11 NIV Overruled Because, well, truth is that God’s not persuaded by the arrogance of man nor is He in any way to prove ever inclined toward listening to, learning from nor looking for ways to please those who continue walking in it as is proven in every life that’s ever been lived by those of us, who are all of us, who have indeed lived as if Christ were neither a need nor even a thought. And in all sadness this is something that has defined all of us and how we’ve gone about at least a portion of our time here. We’ve all rejected Him, refused Him, ignored Him, maybe even mocked those who believed in Him before we did. Why? I personally think it’s because deep down we all know inside our bones and their marrow that “anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces” whereas too “anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” And, well, human logic has us all pretty much convinced that neither of those is in any way an outcome worth wanting and so, well, we’ve just all chosen t...

1 Corinthians 3:11 NIV Building betrayals And they of ourselves and that of our eternities and this in terms of time itself as is both here given but here wasted upon what is this outlook that has us all all but convinced that our little remaining time is somehow best spent upon doing whatever it is that we’re doing, most of which is still done outside the Son and far from the same. And why? Because He remains so utterly different from all this world is and does and inspires us too to daily do. He is still doing something new and that for only everyone who undertakes their being taken away from what will remain in and of this place. At least until there are but remains of this place left after this place has inevitably passed away. And that’s the confusion that we continue to miss inside this delusion that is this life that we just keep designing. It’s that everything we’re doing, when done for only reasons or rewards found on this earth and thus in this life, it will be undone, left b...

Matthew 7:23 NIV Workers of iniquity For any work that is done without the reason being the Son cannot then equal what has already been done because, well, nothing can match the mercy met in such misery as was met upon our place upon that cross that was the cost that both we owed but that He paid so that we might be then freed to spend our days doing only those things, in fact doing all things unto the glory of He alone who walked that road for what was our redemption and that as was purchased through such pain and suffering that for us to now do anything in word or deed without Him being the purpose, such a doing is worthless. It’s even worse than worthless for it’s lawless. It’s wickedness, evil in every form for us to have both found and to continue finding all of these ways to continue thinking that we deserve any say in this story of our salvation. Because, honestly, how can those who’ve done the things from which they needed to be saved thanks to their having even prior been the ...

Matthew 7:22 NIV Busy with unbelief And that simply because it’s become entirely too easy and thus too common and thus too normal for us to believe that the things we do might matter. In fact, the very idea of our actions perhaps meaning something, making a difference, inflicting a change or imposing a point has become one of the most common beliefs shared amongst man. Why? Because what we do does matter, especially here. And that’s because the things we do, words we say, even the thoughts we think bring with them real-life and often real-time outcomes. In truth all of this life that we’re all here going through, it’s a true experiencing of what is cause and effect in which what we do does mean something in the way of a result found. Problem is that we’ve all become so focused if not in fact utterly fixated on said results that life itself has resulted in this outlook that has us all but entirely sure that there’s always something we say or think or do that might hopefully help change ...

2 Thessalonians 1:9 NIV Forever away But just how far is forever? How long is an eternity, not in terms of time, but rather in lay and line? How many miles make up a mystery? How many steps must one take to break away from that which doesn’t end? How might we make the trip from a place we didn’t send ourselves but found all on our own? Can one truly exchange a home held in the heart and mind for another life of another kind in another place outside of time? How much time would it take to scale the fence that separates that which is everlasting from that that’s only unending? Doesn’t one sound better than the other? Everlasting and unending. Sadly I would venture to guess that they for now sound the same to us. For where we are is lost in this lack of novelty thanks to all the nuance and noise and nonsense that sings daily around us that same song it’s sung for all those who’ve too walked the way we have in what are lives that we’ve lived the way they did. And that it what it so sadly i...