Forged By Faith

Luke 12:19 NIV The golden cage It’s this common place in which I dare say it safe to assume that all of man has been before. For it’s a way of life that all have lived as is lived lost in love for all that looks like it adds worth to life, all that may well add worth to life. At least as it’s lived here. And yet that worth, that wealth as is so easily won and commonly wanted within this world as it does seem to add unto a life, while it may look all nice and feel real good and help to make our lives achieve both the same, still there comes a day when He will say that all we’ve had is to be left anyway. What then will we have? But you see, even in that question asked I find a farce as it again contends that what we have will matter then, even if in a backwards measure as is to be measured in how much we leave. Leaving then everyone who thinks still that way to be found, perhaps at least, as those still lost in the idolatry of wealth as won within this world in which, yeah, there’s more ...

John 3:20 NIV The darkness deception It’s something of this invention whose intention is the confusion of, well, everyone. And that’s because, well, the devil seeks still to steal and kill and destroy as many as he might and that from both the purpose of this life and thus then too the promise of the next. Indeed, our enemy has never stopped working to make it seem that the darkness is the place for us to be. Mostly only because it’s the place where he resides and I guess he too must be afraid of the dark as he clearly wants for as many to join him there as he can convinced to do so all so that he’s not lonely. Or something like that. But the problem is that, well, it makes sense to us too as we too are afraid of the dark. Or at least as kids we were, which, when you stop and think about it kind of adds yet another layer to why it is that Christ implores us unto a life explored through a childlike faith. For indeed, kids are afraid of the dark, something we grown-ups mock them for. And...

Isaiah 44:20 NIV A kingdom of stones and bushes and birds that can’t fly And that because we’ve either clipped their wings holding them in our hands or rather just insisted they die, and that two at a time. Because we’ve become all so assured of ourselves and our paths that we never seem anymore all that willing, interested or able to stop and put all our cards on the table. Maybe because we still assume that we’ve the winning hand and simply wish not to reveal our success until we’ve managed to stretch the betting line a little further. Or maybe because we can’t see what all our cards are clearly enough to realize that we’re holding but a suicide king, a two of hearts, the ace of spades, one get out of jail free card (forged obviously) and a draw four from Uno. All of which we’ve pulled seeking to win the hand that is this life from what is the house of cards that we’ve spent this life building into the castle we think it is as it sure looks like one when seen from the right angle. An...

Psalm 73:4 NIV What is struggle? Is it something disclosed in discomfort? Is it disease undisguised? Is it the lack of health known to us as having wealth and knowing nothing but happiness? Is it misery made in more moments than those in which we meet it not? Is it not having the ability, the opportunity, the affluence to afford something we want, something that someone else could afford and many have bought? Is it pain proven in mental delusion designed inside all manner of inner distress never seen, or so we try, upon the surface? Is it seen inside a lack of success in regard to whatever it is that success is to us? What is success? That’s what we spent yesterday trying to discuss. And indeed, it seems that in many ways, if not most, struggle forces us to go in that direction that success doesn’t know. For it feels as if struggle is something seen by eyes that haven’t the life that’s therefore free from the misery that it seems that all struggle means. And sure, to struggle is a bund...

Ephesians 5:6 NIV Deceived And it’s because of it that I now find an intolerance for such practices welling up in me. For life, in at least my feeble estimation, it’s not really something that should have been so allowed to be whatever this is that it’s so sadly become. In fact I don’t personal believe that we should have ever taken it upon ourselves to so usurp the authority to so define life’s condition so as to only ensure that it allows for such things as violence and deception. No, what we’re living is nothing close to what God created life to be. But we all just continue to go along with it all because we are in fact deceived. Because we’re honestly probably just afraid to be anything else at this point. I mean we’ve arrived at the place in time in which such practices as deception and the dishonesty that drives it so endlessly unto and then into our every existence have now existed for so very long that all of us who were born this far from Eden now just think them ordinary. We ...