Forged By Faith

Colossians 3:3 NIV decides upon the death And that of even all that is because along this line you’ll come to find within this time that we call life there’s so much that isn’t what you’ve long thought it was that because you did you do start to agree that the part of you that still tries so hard to see, to know, to hold, to have is indeed better off left to a dirt nap. Because there’ve come entirely too many times within every single one of our lives in which our hearts and/or our minds thought and felt that they’d figured out the reason, the purpose, the very promise of life. Only to all of us stand here still today still looking through things for something that will perhaps not let us down this time. Or, and it would in truth be a feeling finally even better, perhaps something that we won’t let down this time. Because, at least for me, that’s been the story of my life. And it’s become such the tagline that my mind finds only all the time all of the ways in which I surely disappoint...

Romans 3:13 NIV gives up the grave Only not that into which we’re all now called to come and down our lives lay but rather they amongst whom we walk who’ve always it seems something to say about the way in which we play what is this hand that we’ve made into this way in which we’ve now nothing to say unto He who is the One who went before and asks us to follow behind. Indeed, among this descent into madness in which He’s made me alive and makes me that still further every moment I find that I feel increasingly uninclined to listen to the thoughts and attitudes of various hearts which are clearly deceived and minds too then falling apart. A disinterest which is so very deep already and yet somehow deepens only at each day’s start. And that because this world hits us right in the face every single morning with what has become such a boring bearing of weights over which we should have never come unto this worry that we might really need to carry. Every hour we’re handed unto the power of ...

Romans 6:10 NIV From and for Or, perhaps more poignant to this post and point, to and toward. And that simply because of everything that’s ever been done in the history of our ability to do things, all things we’ve all done have been done only because those doing them believed then that they were able to accomplish something worthy of the work, wait or worry involved and entailed in their doing of whatever it was that they determined to do. For none of us will do anything if there’s not a valid reason as to why it needs to be done. How much less then shall the Son and what He’s done not accomplish that for which He did it which was and remains to erase the sin and shame that has kept us all standing in the rain of a life lived entirely plain upon this plane of pain caught in the pride that ties to what was a life that all have lived that is nothing like the life that we were created to live nor, now that He’s done what He did, have the chance to live again? Indeed, will not He who conq...

Romans 6:3 NIV The art of dying It’s in every way something that takes all of us an entire lifetime to learn as it’s in every way something that seems entirely antithetical to life as we so fervently love to assume we understand it. And yet, that’s quite the problem, isn’t it? That despite however much time we have been alive in what thus seems clearly a life that’s afforded us then a continued growth in what ought to be an understanding as to how to live a life, we don’t. We don’t. And while this is something which could be seen in those many, many things that still we somehow manage to learn along the way, maybe it’s something best seen inside another scene. A scene shown in our dying. Which just so happens to be the movie we never seem willing to see, to show, to act as if we know. For no, again, it seems a life’s greatest enemy, this act of dying. After all, as far as we know, when we die, we just go. We leave. We vacate the present premises. Exit stage left kind thing. In fact, th...