Forged By Faith

Romans 6:21 NIV Starved on shame. For such is the same that every tongue shall say upon that day when they’re all found knelt upon humbled ground thanks to bended knees and a heart that’s begging please don’t let what I’ve done become what I knew all along it might deserve. Because though we try with all our might to imagine that He may, upon that day, not have seen all we’ve sown as reaped within regret, that we’ve felt the same is what will prove a testimony against ourselves. Our very actions becoming then our own enemies. And yet still we live within this ever before as if there’s not that open door through which to rush so fast unto the fight of faith that we lose everything that’s always kept us away. And that from all He is because of all we’ve been willing to stay. Which now defines the discrepancy displayed as if so willfully designed within what’s been every single life’s time as given unto the sowing of such harvests as hatred, hardship, hassle, haughtiness and every other h...

3 John 11 NIV Imitation It’s something often said to be the sincerest form of flattery, this mimicking of another’s moments or mannerisms as made manifest within the choices they themselves have chosen to make of what is likely a life in which they themselves seek to assume a sense of solace or safety inside such a replication of the rebellions and revelries received from whomever they themselves have chosen to imitate. And so thus while imitation is a sincere form of flattery as it finds within another another way of life that we seek to emulate, the issue then becomes that began by our infatuation with sight. For such leaves us only to imitate what we recognize as witnessed with our own eyes. Thus leaving us to copy but a culture of chatter, chaos, confusion, delusion, dilution, indifference, defiance, denial, debate, hate, hassle, hardship and hostility. Meaning then that whilst a potentially sincere form of flattery, imitation can be too a quite severe form of folly. You know, depe...

1 Peter 4:3 NIV Enough. What is enough? Where is enough? When is enough? When will we be at wherever it is that we’re to finally find what enough is? Is what enough is proven only finally and thus fully when both what and where enough is is too where we are finally and fully beyond it? For can we not know when we’ve had enough, done enough, learned enough, lost enough when we’ve gone just a little too far? I think of the fruit at first taken by those first of us who were then the first of us to fall. Imagine they, like we, sometimes thereafter wished only they could put that fruit back on that tree and return then to the simplicity of what was always already enough as had before they learned what was entirely more. And eternally too much to live simply anymore. For the reality is that enough is enough but alas we never know when or where it had, or even of what it is until we’ve reached a point in which we can’t take anymore, can’t want anymore, can’t learn anymore or do anymore or go ...

Romans 6:23 NIV It’s crazy to me that we’re so quick in allowing something as young as fear to inspire us to risk the promise of the permanency of peace as provided inside something as old as forever. Alas much of life as we’ve come to never know it and never live is defined by the presence of an almost permanent fear founded upon our feeling as if we’ve something to lose, leaving us thus unwilling to try whatever may bring closer a life’s inevitable cost. For we all know the price of life as to be paid upon our exit from what we’ve known of it, done to it. Yes, we know the gravity of the grave being otherwise intertwined with the living of life. And thus defines the fear we feel inside, a feeling so fearful that faith is found floundering in the wake of our worry. But we seem to see no real reason to want for more than said worry as we walk still among a world perfectly content it would seem to waste away inside want and wish as if they’re somehow able to prove death deniable. That’s ...

Proverbs 14:12 NIV We break into your regularly scheduled program to bring you an extremely urgent PSA. Most days I try to build a post off the idea shared the day before. Not really sure why, maybe just seems to flow better that way. Maybe it's because the Bible always has more to say in regard to a particular topic, and well, we can always use as much help with most of them as we can get. Or it might that the entirety of Scripture is itself one conglomerate lesson that takes all these differing truths and combines them into a singular command to build our life in the Way. But today I've something weighing so heavily on my mind that I know I can't find a way around it. And as much as I've always tried to avoid making these daily discussions too much about me, I find myself in the midst of a kind of monstrosity that I feel this desperate need to hopefully help others avoid if at all possible. I just always want to keep these about God and the truth He's given us as ...

Proverbs 11:18 NIV That which is planted will most assuredly grow. And that fact begs an immediate question which points to an unavoidable outcome: Is what you're planting and allowing to grow in your heart, your mind, your life the harvest you wish to reap once it has grown? You see, much of life is under-considered. We tend to simply float through this world as if we're free to make mistakes and take things lightly. We exists as ghosts who don't realize that they're making a mark, leaving an imprint, having an impact. We sadly assume all our choices to be rather miniscule and minute in the grand scheme of life, and even more so when seen through the lens of eternity. But, the reality is that everything we do, everything we say, every choice that we make is a seed that is planted in our story which will grow into something up ahead. What makes it hard to remember and easy to ignore is that we don't often see the consequences. You don't reap the harvest right af...