Forged By Faith

Amos 5:10 NIV welcomes their wrath Because at some point within this life as is lived within this world you’re bound to find that no matter what you do, sad truth is that someone will hate you. Someone will disagree with you. Someone will doubt you, debate you, deny you, decry you as one of an ever-growing list of names meant to scare us into always staying inside the lines that mankind has drawn for mankind seeking to keep all of us falling always behind everything better that most never now have any intention or desire to ever become. Indeed, this world has chosen the direction it delights to go in and it is both so convinced that it’s right, because it’s so broken that it can’t see that it’s not, that now those many who follow it, falling daily in love with the welcome of the width, all but insist that everyone who doesn’t isn’t. Yes, this world is absolutely packed with those who are absolutely assured that they know what they’re doing and are right in doing it simply because their...

Isaiah 59:14 NIV awakens to a wasteland A land in which so much is so wasted and that by so many that daily you find you only feel but this growing ache inside your chest as you walk amongst this deepening mess that is being endlessly made by those who make the maze and yet always seem as if they know what they’re doing, where they’re going, who they’ve become. And perhaps they do as in fact I imagine many of them might. After all, why else would one go on living what isn’t a life unless they’ve come to decide that the death we see and too know awaits is an alright place for us to live in waste? And that of every opportunity we’ve both been given already and still hopefully have awaiting. Awaiting what? Us to realize that this way of life that we’ve come to live and believe we love is nothing but a gross lack of the both. That we know increasingly little of life as within it we love what all it isn’t. That we thus know little too of love as we love that which is actually hate and hate ...

Isaiah 59:4 NIV agnizes the agonizing And that amongst all things and everyone as are all done and did within this den of what is sin now so superficial and yet soul-reliant that one can no more separate the stains from the spirit than they might make red into blue. No, rather it seems with those who’ve eyes to see that we indeed are through. We’re finished. We’re anymore so fake and flimsy that we’ve made friends and family with everything from evil to enmity. In fact, we love those things more than we love our friends and family! They’re in fact the very basis of our every identity as has been so widely chosen for us by a culture of such chaos as to both chase corruption and yet never recognize the cost. Instead we seem to have not merely accepted the downfall but are still actively seeking out ways in which to inspire it to fall further apart. Wanting for ways to waste more of our days doing more of those things which the Word says ought not to be done. Doing only whatever we’ve eit...

Romans 7:24 NIV The realization They say that the first step to solving a problem is admitting there’s one to solve. And indeed, fact is that we can’t fix whatever we can’t see is faulty, fractured, fading, forsaken, forgotten, floundered, frail or fake. But the first problem that we’re all sure to have in regard to fixing any of the others that we can’t see that we do have as of yet is that for so long inside each of our lives we’ve lived trying our best to assume our best was both something we could achieve all by ourselves and that, once we had, we’d have what would amount to a patently perfect life. Issue is though that we have tried. For a long time! Granted, there’s no possible way that I can know your age, your story, even your name as it seems that many of those amazingly few who do read these things through even this far are to be but forever mysteries to me as on this side I can only see a handful of likes and a couple shares from time to time. And true, perhaps those are the...

Isaiah 64:6 NIV The reality It’s that our very best is but a betrayal of even God’s worst. That our most upright action is only one taken in what is an obvious opposition unto He who is positioned upon the throne against which we’ve thrown our lives as if tantrums against Him and His call for all to come unto the Son and receive from the same the salvation found in only the Name of Christ Jesus who died to free us not from lives lived as if these perfecting angels we think ourselves to be. No, rather He came to set us free from a life given so fully unto sin and slavery that we indeed grew to love this life more than He who gave us the opportunity to live it. And the same who’s now seen us lose it to living as if He doesn’t. Which is what now forms the foundation of our collective fear of forever being something found not in the many places we’ve assumed it found or still continue to imagine we might find it now. No, the reality is that we’ve searched for so long through so many other ...