Forged By Faith

Romans 6:5 NIV All in, halfway Such is all but almost certainly what this life in all of its gradient entirety seems to weigh. For here we both find ourselves quite obviously alive but at that living a life lost inside the awareness of the nearness of our life here proving far from endless. And it’s from this that we all gain, along our own way, what feels only unto us as our lone awareness of both what this life means and what more that means as seen inside how we live it. A collective then of choices all aimed at either upholding our growing understandings of a life’s gravity or rather joining with those undermining the same. Either way, it seems most days that we’re each both all in and yet only halfway. Home, that is. And that is because this is still a scene which so often seems like home. And granted, that does make some sense seeing as how we are all here for what is a long time, even in a short life. And that’s because literally all the time we’ll ever have is had only here. Wh...

Philippians 3:10 NIV Filling For in truth, such is life, and that all the time, and that with either what is here or with all that isn’t. And this is what demands of us a daily decision made inside a distanced determination as defined and disciplined as to uphold the unique blend of what we think we know with what all we can’t know enough to even think. And I think that this is where we find ourselves so easily struggling when it comes to faith for the journey that is such a belief isn’t one always easy to see. Let alone then easy enough to understand that we can readily find reason within. Rather faith is a journey spent into this increasing perplexity, though oddly enough one found growing against what we have known. And that’s because in faith we will go unto this place in which all we have known becomes seen as but the very beginning of the better we hope still to find or merely the perpetually less than that we’ve then no worries in leaving. And this finds for us a quite distinct ...

Romans 6:3 NIV Oh, we do, for such has been made most perfectly clear! It’s then just that we tend to get rather remarkably lost looking at the toward what as opposed to embracing the what through. Yes, we all know quite well where this road leads and the things done by which to secure passage for those to whom said promise was, is promised. But there exists alongside our understanding of the gravity of a grace as given in that place that we call a grave, consider then life’s utmost disgrace, an almost violent refusal as to the perusal of the persecution through which said promise was purchased. For we like the sound of Heaven, but alas we cannot admit that hell must then exist too. Nor then that this world is the closest to either we’ll be depending upon how we determine to live our lives as thus defined by where our treasures are stored. For if here is held as home, and our treasures housed here as well, then, as the Word reads, we’ll be amongst those who’ve had their reward. Meaning...

John 10:10 NIV Seeing/Believing And anymore, as always before, it seems, unfortunately, that we then get caught seeing a scene as seen in the sight of the assumption of what we thought we saw as seen inside of that we’d sought to see. And while this may prove fairly harmless in regard to most things, for now at least, it can become quite the issue when allowed audience inside of certain situations, scenarios, circumstances or conclusions. And that determined upon the choices and their always corresponding actions as chosen and then taken within any, and in fact all, of all the above. Something perhaps proven best within the discrepancy still clearly seen between Golgotha and Calvary. Indeed, it seems that all of us, without exception mind you, that all of us have considered the Gospel from only the vantage of we the disadvantaged as displayed within the disadvantage as seen upon that place called Golgotha as opposed to accepting our invitation, as still standing so long as we’re here s...

1 Thessalonians 4:14 NIV There's an immense reason as to why the death, burial and resurrection of Christ is one of the foremost concepts discussed and believed upon within our faith. And that's because those three experiences apply to us too. Yet we find ourselves still living as a people unwilling to accept we owe any personal cost for anything. We’re surrounded by this mindset that has everyone most assured that there’s nothing ever to be required of them in life, in faith, in love, in anything. It should all just be there, should just be free. Life is a gift, but that doesn’t mean we’ve nothing to give it in return. And faith, so too a gift, is also more than deserving of hearts willing to immerse themselves into whatever it may take to know a deeper level of hope. Especially since we should have none. But alas, we likely don’t see it that way. We probably find ourselves somewhere in the middle at best. Sort of stuck between here and somewhere else, somewhere we don’t know ...