Forged By Faith

Jonah 2:4 NIV What is determination? Is it the investigation of at least the willingness to try? Is it the audacity to stare risk in the eye and wonder why not rather than why? Is it the courage to consider that there may well be no other choice but to see what you can be? Is it the rarity of a heart that’s able to hold so tight to hope that all it knows is to try for whatever that hope can always become? Is it believing that hope can in fact always become something bigger, better and, in that belief, adamant to find the very outermost of every hope’s extremity? Is it an extreme toward which we go when even hope itself seems all but gone for good? Is it our souls becoming something a bit more unbreakable, unwilling even to bend anymore as we know there is still more that is in store that asks we become relentless in our pursuit there toward? Is it a body able to feel deprived, in danger, filled with doubt and a million miles from nowhere but yet entirely unworried as it knows that it w...

Luke 9:62 NIV We struggle with things that are hard. We have a rough time adjusting to change. For the most part we all prefer to find a rut that seems to work well enough and consign ourselves to staying there. It's easier to keep doing the same thing. It's easier to keep making the same choices. But as we talked about yesterday, what if those same old choices are the wrong choices? What if doing the same thing that we've always done only keeps us headed toward disaster? It's not worth it! Yes, it's hard to change. It's hard to sit down and take those honest looks at our lives and discover all the poor choices we're making. It's hard to be brutally honest but that's the only path that leads us to improvement and growth. So while it may hurt our pride to be truthful with ourselves, it's the only way to find those areas that we're messing up and begin to fix them. It's the only way to realize just how badly we need to make some massive cha...