Forged By Faith

2 Timothy 2:13 NIV The realization It’s something blending in seven parts humiliation, five consternation, four concern, two sorrow and ten confusion. And sure, there are several other little aspects and attributes to be attributed to this assimilation unto humility and thus out of our own arrogance as will come to be better understood along the way toward wherever this Way may go. And what’s in fact often the first that we’ll find is that of fear as found in neither our knowing where it is that we’re going nor then how we might possibly get there should we get turned around along the way. In fact, all we’ll eventually come to know, and that many times over, is that we can’t get there. That’s the terror of both what we’re trying and also why so few are. It’s proven in that we can’t. We’ve simply not the ingredients needed to ensure this recipe turns out as anything other than what we’ve already proven well capable of making. Which is mostly just mistakes, mayhem, misunderstanding, a ve...

Matthew 7:14 NIV And thus it’s a narrowing for us. And this of both life and love. And it must be as such because we’ve lived a life in which we’ve loved the lust for the trust of rust which will only ever be all that it’s all already been all along. And simply put, if all we are is all we know and all we know is but all we tow then all we can be is simply all we’ve all already been. And considering then that all any of us have ever been able to be all on our own is but a lone loon looking to love more of that which has left us lost, well then there is simply no possible way to find the narrow which leads to life. For it was paved by He who gave of His so that we might see all that for which we’ve given of ours, so as to in this realize with our own eyes the death we’ve demanded within the delights our desires have designed. Because the fact was written long before we set to erasing what is His will, or so we try, as done within this wasted way of life in which all we know is to love t...

Romans 11:33 NIV What is the end of what isn’t yet? And now, no, that’s not at all to say that God isn’t yet for He always was. Same thus for He who is the Christ who is the Father in human flesh, and thus too the Spirit which is breathed upon all found within His fall to Earth so as to rise ahead into the where we’re going to become who He made us to be before the beginning. And too that of what we’ve become anyway. Yet seems such is the sticking point of sanctification’s work as won only within the aftermath of salvation’s accomplishment. Thankfully He did indeed accomplish just such a sacrificial atonement upon our behalf. It’s just that we’re not anywhere near even yet half way home. For what is half of that which is measureless? Yes, what is the end of what isn’t yet? Where is the end of where we’ve never been? Who are we to be when we’re finally who we were supposed to be before we became what became the reason for our Savior’s suffering? Who’s gonna be the one to tell us that we...

Acts 17:25 NIV Giving unto the Giver As if the Creator needs something done or has some need met by the created. It’s a mindset sat upon this common assumption as proven within this way of life in which we live as if what we want is needed because we’ve imagined a bettering of our own lives within it. Yes, we live as if all that surrounds us, both people and possession, are able to bring unto us a solidification of our stance as stood upon what is the self-assumed solidity of our every understanding. And thus we’ve too insisted that God is much the same, nothing more than another attempt to both make ourselves feel better whilst also hopefully making ourselves look good in the process. Because when we think of God from within this mindset so warped into our lives wrapped around the vanity of idolatry, we’ll eventually reach this point in which the point becomes our serving of whatever it is that we’ve come to ask serve us. Life devolves into what becomes a continuous unraveling as unve...

Acts 17:24 NIV Temples of the temporary Such is where I’ve long lived and quite insistent upon God being found. It’s something we all do this gross discounting of the divine in order to force He fit inside a mind within which we also find the failures and feelings that found them so faithfully within those many past mistakes now made into memories that we cannot seem to quite erase. Despite a great deal of trying. No, that we remember where we’ve been and who we’ve become because of those plans we’ve made and the mistakes they became seems something of a strange evidence as to the existence of the Father. For why else would we have such an ability to realize our every missed opportunity to hold to a higher road rather than that we ended up walking down instead? Indeed, it’s a great tragedy to have come this far into what’s only an assumption as to the simplicity of our Creator. That we’ve all sought to confine Him within the many places and presumptions that we have has become what’s l...