Forged By Faith

1 Corinthians 15:54 NIV finds life in letting go And that of life itself as there’s this tomb that tells of a worthy well which knows thy name and came to this place to save the same by dying to this world so that we would find within Him a faith that sets us free from feeling still as if we here should be. Granted, that here we are is undeniable and all things which are as they are are so because they’re supposed to so be. The only difference for you and me is that who, what, where we are is all perishing. The why never will. And who, what, where we are is all whatever it is because He’s still things for us to do, to see, to be. And truth is that they are all waiting for us to stop waiting for them to be or become whatever it is that they’ve not yet been thanks to our having been whatever it is that He came to at first overcome and then to help us unbecome. And to unbecome whatever it is that you have become is something that’s just bound to take some time. Thanks to the Christ it onl...

Romans 8:23 NIV runs the length of redemption Even though it starts at regret, takes a right through wrongs, crawls through remorse over choices made in foolishness, continues through what eventually becomes the reconsideration of basically everything, takes another right through leaving things behind and inevitably leads right unto what is nothing short of utter ruination. It is in every way a truly strange vocation, this working out with fear and trembling our salvation. For it asks that we ask questions that we either know the answers to and too that they’re probably not good ones or rather those that we simply know we don’t want to know the answers to as we know they’re not good ones. Because this faith slowly opens our eyes to see the blinding stupidity hidden poorly underneath every poor choice we’ve ever made and the vast weakness in which we’ve made the anyway. Yes, though it be a path paved in strangeness as it’s poured in the substance of everything that everyone else seeks o...

2 Corinthians 5:6 NIV considers not what’s next But rather only what’s then next. Because as time goes wherever the rest of time’s gone into what is a past that for now still seems oddly present, this faith presents us with this trust that helps us to grow in both the understanding of and appreciation in what is a faith that says that it’s not what we go through that matters most of all but rather where we get to go to once we’ve gone through whatever He’s determined we need to in order to ensure that we’re by then ready to fit through what is a doorway so narrow that none of us can fit as we sit. Which is the companion understanding that helps us to come to terms with where we’re standing and start here seeking for reasons as to why here we have. For here is still not home and so it makes no sense for us to know still so much of all that’s still here, does it? Honestly, I find myself asking myself this kind of question constantly. Why am I worried about whatever’s happening? Why do th...

John 14:3 NIV pursues the promise of patience Though, if we were to be honest, it’s usually one pretty hard for us to find the need to feel as if we need to find it. And that simply because, well, we’ve become so impressively impatient that now being patient, or even being asked to consider it, it’s something that feels unto us as if a punishment. It brings with it always this weight, the wait, and it seems more often than not measured only in wonder and worry, neither of which seem at all light to a life lived always in a hurry. And that’s the problem precisely! It’s that this version of life we’ve all chosen, yes, chosen to live is one lived so fast and, well, freaked out both by and because of it that we’ve all basically become entirely willing to abandon boredom and belief as both of them ask that we sit inside a silence of time that, again, seems almost a violence against us as it brings unto us all the thoughts we’ve never thought that we thus have no idea how to think. And that ...

Hebrews 11:39 NIV rescinds the acceptance Because, as it turns out, this faith brings with it a whole bunch of questions. Questions such as why? For what? Where you going? From where you coming? Who you been? Who do you want to be? Do our wants really mean anything? Should our wants mean anything? Should the wants of the world then if we maybe agree that perhaps even our own don’t? What rules are we supposed to follow? Where would/will said rules lead? What’s the prize at the end of the journey? Can you even consider it a journey if never you’re found moving? I ask myself questions such as these all the time. In fact I often find that often my mind never stops thinking and learning and thus asking more questions of both myself and the world around me. Even asking questions of the hope within me. Why does it matter? What does it help? Again, where will it go? Where have we gone? Why can’t we all see just how far gone we’ve gone? Do we really like this life that we’re living at the behes...