Forged By Faith

Job 20:8 NIV A whisper in the dark Such is the fate that awaits those wicked at heart. And this is because at each day’s start their willingness toward reason, righteousness and reality falls apart. For within them they have not a care as to the story we’re all living nor the part for which they were cast as rather than being kids caught in the wonder and awe of it all they instead wish only to wander without the wonder as to the Word and its Writer. Instead the wicked want for their own story written of their own gain and all theirs the glory. And what makes this such the common confusion is that it is sadly what so many are doing and that to what seems a life so filled with everything that anyone could ever want. But that which fills is that which can be emptied whereas that which is empty can only then be filled. And that upon the Day when everything’s promised to change. And sure, said Day seems to continue to elude, evade. There’s indeed come not yet said Day in which change has b...

Job 20:6-7 NIV The vanishing point Though we see it not from where we stand or don’t there comes a point in which a pride’s at home in what becomes the highest hope that it can have and that of a life in which it is all that is good and everything else is only bad. And this idea, this ideal it’s something that we’ve not the ability to see because our pride is so blind that it thinks it can. Indeed, the issue with all vanity and ego is that it thinks that it knows all there is to know and can thus determine for itself the best place to go, the best things that we can see, the best that we can be. And sadly it always assumes that we’re already there. But if we’re already there then we’re already gone. Because the highest point of pride is the unforeseen loss of life. And I know that may sound strange considering the sights and sounds we see atop this ground of a people living like royalty. And indeed, it does here seem as if vanity has no real negatives, no real problems, can in fact man...

Isaiah 14:14 NIV A godless goal Many have been the plans of man and most of them have come to this conclusion that’s almost always wrapped within this delusion that has us all down here doing only always whatever we want as if we’ve the power, the authority to determine it good. We truly love this idea that we all have as to our own ability, our own importance, our own support and how much it can accomplish. And we’ve followed this idea to some truly extreme extremes, even the thinking of things such as the consideration considered here in this verse for today. That we so know how to do this our way and want so badly only always the same as our way is the one that makes the most sense as it finds us the ones who profit most in the end, that we then not only have to but in fact can contend with Him who created these lives and gave us the gift that is this chance to live them. Yes, we’ve all of us fallen for this contention against the very God of Heaven thinking that we could do better....

Isaiah 14:13 NIV A pride’s plans Unto the end they know nothing of the same as, as far as ego is always to be concerned, there is nothing about which to be concerned. There is no harm coming, no danger to be found, no pain to be felt other than that of what’s come in the form of this world letting us down via the refusing to adhere to what is our way in which we want what we think are our lives to go. Indeed, if only everyone else could come to know what we think we do, we’d all be living perfect lives filled with so much power and opulence that nothing would be able to ever bring us down. For it seems that ivory towers know only to grow higher and higher. And indeed, this has been the very plan of every man ever since the devil got it in our heads that not only could we be more but that we deserved to be. That we were being shortchanged in those lives lived without need of change. That somehow we’d be better off were we to have the power that our prior perfection never knew we never n...

Amos 9:2 NIV Outrunning inevitability Amazingly, despite the overall obviousness of our reality, this remains something that we all still clearly consider an in every way feasible ability. In fact it’s something that we all act as if it’s not merely feasible but in every way factual. That we can prove of the actual power to outmaneuver God, to outwit Him, outlast Him, make it out alive without Him. That we don’t need Him, can run from Him, hide from Him, manage to keep from Him both our many flaws and mostly only ourselves who are the ones who wish always to do nothing about them. Indeed, we’ve all lived, perhaps live still, as those who think they neither owe the bill and yet could pay it easily were it to somehow come due thanks to all that we’ve learned to do that we likewise think we can do well enough to accomplish more than enough to leave us looking Him in the eye with an expectation that He blinks first. Friends, that’s not how this is going to work. No, there is no amount of w...