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...

Romans 8:13 NIV By the Spirit. For the only way to live beyond the death we’ve designed inside our every depraved delight is to die the death all such detestability so deserves. In other words, if we’re to ever live again after the death we’ve enjoyed within the sins that enjoy the same, we must become ghosts, spirits who are but remnants of a once lived life then finally lost unto the accord with the overall promise of all human occupation. And that both that we’re here occupying what isn’t ours and too what we choose to do within this time that we’re here that isn’t ours either. Rather all of our every life is only lived because God said we can, and that, for whatever reason we’ve yet to realize, we should try again within what is this new day as given us once more. And we’ve had a great many new days thus far. I’m on day 13,648 myself, having just concluded 13,647 about 7 hours ago. And yet it’s that into one more I go that’s become to me an agreement that I need them all. As many a...

Jeremiah 21:8 NIV A life lost. For the gravity of our mortality as defined by His command of morality and our corresponding rejection thereof is we’ve left then with what is a rather upside-down choice to make. And it will indeed feel so confused because we’ve long been a people who pursue enjoyment thinking that such, because it seems to add so much flair to life, is what helps us to best feel alive within a life. But when faced with the choice waged between what it is to enjoy and what less it may well seem to merely escape, the truth is that the latter will always prove the matter far more important as it’s the one always best able to prove that which lasts longest. Because enjoyment is often known but for a moment or maybe two. Eternal life though, well, that seems worth suffering to. Alas we’re not really a people who know the gift that is the humility that would allow us to see such suffering as an increasingly more meaningful way of life as lived within this land which is entire...

James 1:2 NIV To consider is to choose the choice that contemplates, that evaluates, that negotiates the particulars and peculiarities of something be it a situation, circumstance, confusion or contention, seeking inside such considering the good that’s there to be found despite the bad always biting for our attention. And thus for us to consider it pure joy to face trials of many kinds is to set our minds to find the good within even what we want to believe only bad. It’s to make the conscious effort to evoke joy from within a heart perhaps jaded or complacent or fearful or failing as it falls most often in that regard toward that most negative of direction. To consider joy is to choose joy, to pursue joy, to make joy our outcome, the only of which we’re in any way willing to welcome, to want, to win. Yes, to choose joy is to deny all that isn’t conducive to such a stance as happiness. Alas, it’s perhaps too a choice we’ve scantly known thus far in life. For what is joy? What is it to...

Matthew 22:21 NIV A reply offered in regard to the wonder as to whose image and inscription were boldly emblazoned upon this mediocrity of man’s currency which has so sadly become unto us indeed us in what is almost every way possible. For alas we’ve so devolved in terms of devotion to the divine being the line we refuse to cross that, no, that line looks clearest in the rear-view nearest as it’s a concern not even an afterthought anymore. It’s an idea antiquated in every way these days as the world has so far progressed past such a vital simplicity as our not being our own defining further than nothing we own should thus be us. But yet, such is just how we’ve come to live so in love with a land so filled with frills and frights which illuminate every night so that we can continue our search for something of substance to make our self-betrayal not so blatant. But blatant it shall indeed remain, for how else might we explain how we’ve come so far into this world that we worry ourselves ...