Forged By Faith

Psalm 84:10 NIV If a single day is undeniably better then is it not safe to say that such a better found forever is indeed all but eternally immeasurable? What’s amazing to me is the almost obnoxious simplicity contained within such a faith that allows for that outlook as considered of the sons of Korah in this verse for today. Obnoxious in that it’s so blatantly obvious and yet is anymore something of such contradiction to our confusion that we’re seemingly happier remaining all but oblivious to it. That we could retire from trying to find, and continuing to fail, this ideal of a best life is such an enormous gift that we should be only quick to receive it. Alas it seems that all we’ve all set out to seek and receive instead is but a doubt so deep that still we think that our life is somehow on us to define. And it’s within this ideal that is apparently waiting somewhere within our ideas that we’ve all but lost the plot of what’s always been life’s purpose as purchased by He who desig...

Hebrews 11:6 NIV The power of belief is held within the fact that it can only exist without any awareness or control of the outcome. And that's scary, especially for a people such as we who are entirely adamant upon evidence. Perhaps it's this consumer's culture in which we live. Maybe it's because we're used to instant gratification and the ease found in its lack of forward assumption. If we see something, buy something, have something then there's a tangibility to the outcome that soothes our tendency toward doubt. We don't have to worry about being let down if we immediately receive whatever reward we're seeking. But God doesn't always deal inside the instantaneous. In fact, at least in my own experience thus far, the vast majority of His workings demand patience and trust and faith, almost as if He's trying to teach me something. To teach us something. To show us something by helping us see that we needn't always see in order to believe. ...

John 5:44 NIV In order to believe one must be able to think. Sadly, we outsource that kind of thing these days. Anymore, most only worry about appeasing their followers instead of making sure they're following the only One who can lead us home. Every single day we wake up and sell ourselves to the lowest bidder, all because they pay us with an increased and therefore more pleasing rapidity which we’ve been convinced to believe proves our devotion to deception of enough worth to be acceptable in the eyes of those blinded by the sins we claim to want to leave behind. The intense over-socialization of our society has caused us to forget the value of intimacy, of quality, of purity. We've lost sight of those priceless things behind eyes that see worth in fandom and followers. Everyone is in such a rush to build a successful online community of like-minded people that they've forgotten the necessity of ensuring that what they think, what they believe and what they say and do as ...