Forged By Faith

1 Peter 2:12 NIV For such a time as this in such a place as this among a people such as this. Last night I realized that my last couple of posts may well have included a few statements or ideas that many might have found particularly grating. And in this world we've been led to believe that any offense, accidental or otherwise, is an undeniable display of a gross lack of love and empathy for our fellow man. And yet, here I sit without the ability to feel bad for what I've said or implied or tried to get across across the last couple of days. Because I do not feel the need to apologize for what is said when it's said in truth, and so therefore will not extend the offer of apology because I meant everything. People really are living as if this life in this world is theirs to create or destroy as they see fit. They're running around in a sort of wildness that's led to a rampant display of vileness that only deepens by the day. Truth continues to be vilified by the many...

James 1:17 KJV There's an undeniable discrepancy displayed across humanity in that we know of good yet are not good. Can’t we see the craziness in these misconceptions we’ve created? Don’t we realize the foolishness made manifest only because of us? See, we've an idea as to what makes something good or someone seem good or help someone feel good. We seem to understand the concepts of goodness, of kindness, of compassion, of mercy and grace and a better place. But how can this be? How can we be a people so clearly so far from good and yet somehow know that good is so good that even though we can’t be it that even still it must exist somewhere? Peculiar. I know that as we've gotten older with an intense lack of evidence of our having grown up because we've aged in a place that won't mature past adolescent angst and anger and arrogance, so too have we found ourselves with a similar mindset as that shown amongst the masses. We, like they, think we know everything there ...