Forged By Faith

Ephesians 5:15-16 NIV Wisdom’s wins For wisdom wins, but only when wisdom wants what is perhaps the wading through the unwanted loss of a life left to waste as won within a walk as aimed through a world in which to lose is to laugh as that is all that most of those all around seem to know how to do when faced with the chase to waste a life that’s been now so wonderfully proven a life already wasted. Yes, wisdom is what will win the day, but friends, we can only share in the victory should we set our sights upon carrying out the call as rang from the hill upon which a life was lain. Because only in our so doing can we begin a sharing in the wisdom won within the loss of a life that went on to win life for those however many might still come to see that story as something worth forgoing the gaining of glory for the giving of the same instead. And simply put, that is not at all something that this world will ever understand as it’s something of a perfect blend of honesty and opportunity, ...

Colossians 4:6 NIV Unasked questions Such are what we’re answering every single time we happen to find that we’re again found around anyone at all within this world with both so many walls being built and yet still the call to treat them all as if our own march about Jericho. Yes, we’re here to “demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,” and to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” And we fight this fight that is this life with what “are not the weapons of the world” which are words spoken without meaning. Rather we have instead been asked into a faith granted to, grafted in to the wielding of weapons that have this “divine power to demolish strongholds.” And these weapons, or at least some of them, are the words with which we engage and interact and converse and yes, even contend with what is a further falling man. For that is the background of this battlefield. It’s set in the scene of a society that’s lost its sen...

Colossians 3:5 NIV Every life’s debt And yes, even owed by that which isn’t alive. For the truth is that anything to which we give our lives becomes itself alive in us via the time and intention we give to this attention as given unto whatever it is that we’ve at first considered and then determined to be worth such a loss as the time we can’t get back and the intention we can’t take back. No, for such things as time and intention are matters made monstrously important when seen in light of how few years we’ve left and how much wear we’ve already endured. For even upon souls designed to last forever, still the burdens of a life borne inside such losses as delight and disbelief are bound to cause some strain. Not that He intended us for such pain as all our past problems have made in the way of such things as either hindsight’s many horrors as held inside the sight of the things we wish we’d have seen in the moment in which we see now only another mistake being made or the worry now won...

Matthew 7:13 NIV The Gate It’s that place through which all will enter, but that through, by then, quite a varied measure as met by what we meant for which to vie before we die in what is a world in which all is measured by all around seeking themselves to see that which what matters most might be. And that day unto which we’ll enter into His presence, well, it will be then to the narrowing of a life’s living regardless of whether or not we ever practiced for such a harrowing experience. And the difference in outcome will be defined by just how prepared we be before Him we’ll see for what had better not be the first time looking. But yet that’s the narrowing. It’s in this life defined by the fact that within this life we can’t see. Not that we can’t see, but rather that what all we do see is but the seen, and it’s anymore such a scene showing the seen that we seem to see no reason to be in our trying to see what for now and here remains unseen. For why put oneself through such a promis...

Acts 22:16 NIV At water’s edge Such is where we’ve lived in what’s long been a life given so freely away to every worry won within the wearing down of a person’s fight for the crown as promised in James in exchange for a frown worn daily amongst the rest of the many who themselves know only to sit in silent solace seeking something solid amidst only dust and sand. Yes, we know only this life as seen from the water’s edge, always afraid of getting wet but for some reason too unwilling to just walk away. Just seems there’s something to see just beyond the waves of waving goodbye to a way of life lived to keep us down. Alas we seem still quite sadly able to choose such a life to lose every day. Don’t know why. Maybe it’s because we don’t see it as our losing of anything, this gaining of nothing more. Perhaps we haven’t yet agreed to feel the heat on our feet as held to the flame of a Name we all know but said in a direction it’s hard to go when having come to know the comfort of sand’s wi...