Forged By Faith

1 John 5:11 NIV And it’s a living Testimony to be sure! For in Him death has no sting, no say, no sway over the way we’re all to go as is now either with the Way or rather still against His grain. Indeed, we are either of His seed or still sowing our own not knowing what’ll prove grown until we come to find, in that end, that we’re either His or never accepted such a gift. But either way, the testimony has now been given, and friends, because He’s living so too can we, in Him, begin again along what life was always meant to be. A life as seen inside that scene that is His Son as sent to set captives free. Such as are, was, were both you and me. But which? For indeed, all of us have been held captive by the cravings of a flesh that feasts upon feats of fatality, delighting in dying, dining upon the decay that is the way spent always away from the Way that is the Life. And that is the Truth! For there is no other name, no other way, no other will aside from His and the latter a matter th...

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV In its time. As if to remind that time is the greatest enemy of all mankind. For we are here surrounded by such beauty and bounty as begotten by the eye of we the beholder of whatever it may be that we’ve here found to be beautiful or bountiful enough to be unto us the very beginning of what all we’ve come to hope within. But then, too, this seems a stark contrarian to the continuum of all things currently uncertain and thus unconsidered. Meaning then that, while beautiful enough to have become our every belief, that it’s all been made to be so brief is a cause to pause as we peruse what more may be possible still. For while we may indeed seem to see the beauty as beheld beside all things proven in certainty, time has already told that we know not what tomorrow may hold. Nor then what of the days are be in the ways of what is truly best. No, such is the tempest that is time itself. For it daily rages into a ranging away of our regard for the fear of the best havin...

John 6:68 NIV If we can’t walk out of the grave then we shouldn’t be the ones leading the way. Problem is that it takes a lifetime misspent to finally find the humility to admit that. All around us in this place we find an endless stream of ideas and input aimed at sharing with us some secret to living a perfect life. Everyone has their own hidden map to a life filled with fulfillment and meaning and enough worth to make it worth living. But the problem is that a perfect life lived perfectly in this place is still only a life lived in this place. And one day this place will have passed. ‘twould be a shame if our perfect life passed along with it. Sadly, never the ones to be proven incorrect or idiotic, each of us have spent a collection of years blazing our own unique trail toward our own unique ideals under the certainty that once we found them we'd find peace and hope and joy and the fulfillment of life's meaning simply sitting right beside all those dreams we've dreamed....

2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV What is left here that hasn't been seen? What is there that man hasn't known or held or found? And yet we still have this idea that we can find a place, obtain some thing, discover a new form of happiness and peace and life in this place. I reckon it's easy to fall into the assumption that these lives in this world are all there is because they've all we've known. But as for me, limiting life to what already is seems about as exciting as cold oatmeal. I don't know, I just like to think outside of the box. I like to wonder. I like to imagine the impossible because often times the possible simply isn't working. I personally can't imagine living a life where this is all there is. But sadly, that's exactly what the majority apparently believe. They're all busy building these lives based on the assumption that these temporary existences are all that matter and that they may as well make them as grand and glorious as they possibl...

1 Corinthians 15:19 NIV This one goes right along with what we talked about yesterday. Looking for joy, peace, hope, or satisfaction in any worldly thing is only going to lead to disappointment. Things don't last, so they can't offer us anything lasting either. Thankfully there is more than this world. There is more available to us than what our eyes can see or our hands can touch. We need to stop limiting ourselves and our hope to this world! Reading through 1 Corinthians 15 last night talking about the hope of eternal life through resurrection. At some point all of this is over. This world and everything in it will fade away. Our lives have an expiration date that none of us know or can avoid. All of the things that we pile up around us will be left behind when our time is up. None of it comes with us to the next step of this journey. None of it! So we shouldn't place all that much importance on it now. We need to stop looking only to the temporal things in life. The mone...