Forged By Faith

1 Corinthians 15:54 NIV So then why the sky? That question crossed my mind yesterday as I climbed closer to it within what is an apartment stairwell on a mail run reading a credit card offer that sought to inspire my debt with the promise of the sky still being the limit for what might be possible should I have all this extra funding that was never mine to begin with. And it’s within such oddities as these that I find an inescapable truth in regard to how the Lord does indeed work in some pretty strange ways! Like using junk mail to inspire what is today’s attempt at my once again seeking His glory through a story He’s been telling both to and through me for a growing portion of my adult life. A story set in impossibilities that only a child could believe. Because it’s one asked in questions pondered in response to common normalities such as old wives tales and a culture of clichés. And in fact it’s one that brings about such wonderings within even the wee hours of the mornings in that...

Job 11:7 NIV No, and it's absolutely horrifying because we know “their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.” Indeed, “they are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?” And so, why do we try? If not for the fear of continuing to fail? For such is what faith does, it leads us to failure as felt within everything we’ve tried to find or force or figure out all by ourselves. It in fact is the substance of everything that exists outside of us as it asks of us that we place our trust within the triumphs and terrors of another Who is without a share of our measure of mortality or mistake. Yes, faith is our seeking the unseen for the sake of simply knowing we’ve nowhere left to look for all we’ve never been. And it’s terrifying. Because there is nothing to see and thus we have not the ability to measure the meaning or prove the power or understand the standings upon which we’ll come to stand as we’re found o...

1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV The things God has prepared These seem the things that now define nearly every hope I have left as I live out my remaining days within the struggles against the ways won within the “wisdom” of the age in which we wage only a life upon want and wish as welcomed by all and refused by anymore so few that I feel less here today than in days now gone. And yet I welcome myself into this excitement as regarded within all that’s of yet unseen as I see inside such the scene of the not shown and unknown. And simply put, that eternity has God’s hands all over it resolves my selfish inclination to continue striving in this designing of a life that was never mine to misunderstand. Rather life was always a violent simplicity as shown inside the very story of salvation. For God worked in Christ something unseen and thus entirely inconceivable before the very eyes of those who counted themselves unbound by the burden that it must be to be still blind beside the very One who came ...