Forged By Faith

Jeremiah 6:16 NIV The refusal It’s clearly one we’ve all thought would work. One that we’ve all thought would help. One that most of us still seem to think will still do hopefully both if not at least one or the other. For the truth is that, perhaps only way deep down, we really do all know that we really need both hope and help, but yet are still apparently so afraid of the work and wait that such can take. Which is why we all think this thought that’s thought by all who think their ability to think thoughts is some sort of gift they gave themselves that gives themselves the right to refuse the very help and hope we all know we need and even sometimes think we want. Meaning then that perhaps we have become the ones who’ve indeed made ourselves within this ability to understand understanding. Just then that the understanding that we seem to understand is but that of our standing still both still and alone here in what is both a million miles and a billions mistakes from that place we c...

Deuteronomy 30:15 NIV A chance we shouldn’t have due to a choice we’ve already always gotten wrong. Yet such is the enormity of God’s divinity. That He alone is able to pacify the past, paying inside a surrender of immorality the debt owed by the many who lived as if they themselves were immortal, invincible, indivisible from these destructions we’ve made within many a misspent moment making that choice incorrectly because of a misplaced gravity. Indeed, for the entirety of our stay within this world, within this way, we’ve chosen to follow our own as if it held such a hold on us that we couldn’t dare disappoint the desires in which we’ve found dreams apparently worth dying for. And yet there’s the counter to God’s kindness, a promise of allowing each to choose for themselves the outcome they receive for the way of life they chose to live. Problem is that we’ve all but devolved into this declaration that we’ve no choice to make. We live our lives, both individually but that because of ...

John 3:19 NIV A sad thing has befallen an already fallen world: Mankind has learned to let past indiscretions define our present preferences, and even to sadly hinder our future's hope. I'll be the very first to admit plainly that I've simply not gotten much if anything right in my life. This fact is undeniable in regard to both the way I was before I finally got fed up and sought to find Christ as well as now that I'm trying daily to seek Him in deeper measure. Indeed, the entirety of my existence has been most egregious. And as a guy who knows what it's like to be but a reflection of a fallen world amongst billions of others so too the same, I know that that fact isn't set solely upon my heart. No, it's a truth for all of us as all of us have equally lived without care or consideration or contemplation of the condemnation made permanent by the promise of eternal damnation reserved for all who dare choose to refuse the chance to lose the meaningless way of ...

Titus 2:12 NIV What God asks of us in exchange for His grace is indeed radical compared to what we've been conditioned to accept. But that’s because He knows death is no way to live. And yet we find ourselves in a rather sad state of affairs as we’ve collectively reached the place where the good God began is seen as the punishment we only want to end. All because we've been conditioned to enjoy our fallen condition, and so that's largely almost all of what most of us can see anymore. It's this tragic outlook that has us seeing through eyes still blinded by all that shimmers and shines upon the surface as if all of life consists of the superficial. And within this great unraveling we find little reason to accept God's undoing of all we've done seeking to do as we wish in order to find what we want. We've become a people consumed by ourselves and our selfishness, and as such, we no longer have any regard for what He's planned or promised, much less the hig...