Forged By Faith

Deuteronomy 20:3 NIV While not theoretically faced with the literal battles into which the Israelites were aimed as fought with swords and such, perhaps this is not the point being made anyway. Rather what if the point were more preemptive than that as considered from but one or two generations before, as before, such a joyful promise as God’s presence would be forgotten anyway. For that is what we do as this people we still are. We take all of life and even more of faith as for granted as the world can inspire us to consider normal. Yes, we consider only the challenges we face, be them battles waged upon fields or if said fields are only found in our minds, we see only the challenge and meet it as if within it we’ve a choice. As if we can continue ahead fighting so hard to find such things as fear and panic for preference of pretending them proof of the irrationality of all matters which would otherwise ask intentionality. No, we’re about as far from intentional as a people can be. In...

Philippians 3:14 NIV To press on is to leave behind for what’s believed better. But, alas, to believe in such better demands that we understand that here is just all that’s lesser. And well, that’s just hard for us to figure. But if only we could see what’s as of not yet we’d find no reason to be so found in such disagreement as to the worth of what’s been won on our behalf, for the death of the Innocent defines this promise of better in what is such a purity that it is undeniably the way life which should have always been lived. Alas, it’s sadly how life has been lived that’s become for us this near violent disbelief as designed inside of the many who do just so disagree that what Christ did could somehow prove evident of the very meaning of life as defined in an eternal lack of opportunity for betterment. It gets no better than Heaven forever! And we should all be able to agree for here we’ve come only to see such constant death that we’re all but unable to realize we’re bringing it ...

2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV Tis here a glad thing to boast about our power as if not such a pretense of pretend as it’s always been. Alas, try as we have we’ve not yet managed to make ourselves more than ourselves and, to some at least, this seems to say that we’re truly not our own for if we were, well then we would have been able to become all we’ve along the way wanted to be. But that we’ve been so able to fall so short of all those desires and dreams paints a scene in which is seen that this life is not about such things as all that we insist isn’t make believe. Such as our dreams and the demands of delusions they demand. For we’ve all dreamt of a many betterment or brighter day only to awake once more unto the rain continuing to pour and the flaws we’ve against so fought still finding for us a failure toward that better we’ve never been. All because to become better has never been within our power. To become worse is by all means something we’ve most certainly made manifest a great man...

1 Samuel 12:20 NIV When sat with such an understanding as this gained from what we’ve seen of what we’ve made of what is now this distance between us and life, turns out that a life’s left to either accept the loss or rather to leave that which has left us lost upon this lost road for that of the prodigal instead. And while such is the beauty of God’s having benevolently come to save both you and me from what we’ve become collectively, there’s still a severity to the singularity that is a soul’s salvation that demands said soul be the only one that decide as to the dilemma defined above. But the danger is that we’ve become such a collective within this culture in what is an almost constant contention concocted against our Creator that what we’ll find is that we’re going to utterly disappoint someone no matter what we do. Why does it have to continue to be either us or God? Why not try letting the world down for once by doing what most here never will and admitting our guilt so that He ...

1 Peter 2:11 NIV For such is the gravity of this life’s entirety, it is but a war in which we’ve already lost all that has since been redeemed and thus re-given unto us as a renewed opportunity to prove our awareness and adoration of such redemption. But as those here and now who’ve never fought before for those thoughts we’ve never thought before due to all we’ve been taught before and thus through socially blinded eyes always thus far sought for, we know not how to even begin to become what He knows we could have always been. For what we’ve always been is what He had to die to redeem as that is the cost of our concession as considered an accomplishment among this world so blind that betrayal is the only way we know to work, the only thing we know to want. Even to the very extent of betraying ourselves as the very expense of our never knowing what could have been, should have been, what would have been had we been a bit more able to be a bit less blind by a world so rife with disbelie...