Forged By Faith

Hebrews 11:38 NIV reappraises the applause For among the nuance of this narrow is found an awareness as to just how shallow the acceptance of a selfish society can be, if not in fact must be. Because, indeed, this world in which we live is lived in by those who look with approval upon so many things which are in no way so worthy of being approved, appreciated, appraised even, let alone then even praised. And this is because within this place it’s been long since proven that such things as death, darkness and delusion are seen as accepted, expected in all honesty. And we’ve all honestly gone along with that assumption as to the presumptions of everything from purpose to pain, going so very far as to make it our very purpose to avoid pain as we’ve seen inside the estimations of society no need to ever endure such downsides to this life. No, instead we’ve all sought and in many ways seek still to have still good lives as we all still define in line with what all mankind considers to be go...

1 John 2:17 NIV reconsiders the ruins Because for all our lives we’ve all been told that anyone who’s doing anything other than whatever is common or normal or elsewise popular is all but simply wasting their lives as, apparently, within this life we’re all here to find nothing but fun and fame and a true fortune then to be made out of what is a life given unto a stage living from which we perform for the masses all the signs and shows and songs they want to hear and see from you and me. Mostly only those who seem to agree that everything that everyone is doing is both just fine to be done and thus too something we may as well then do. After all, everyone can’t be wrong, can they? Well, according to the Word of God, yeah, yeah we are all in fact wrong. And now granted, there’s always some sort of measure to that in which we're all at what are various depths of depravity, delusion, disillusionment, indifference basically the lot. We are all in truth a quite different degree of lost....

Isaiah 52:11 NIV Run from your life That’s not really something that ever really seems something that anyone ever seeks or assumes they might need to. No, for indeed every single life as has ever been lived within this world has been lived within the belief that we are free. And that because simply we’re all anymore so simple as to continue to assume that freedom means only our continuing to do whatever it is that we’ve come to believe we ought to. And that’s usually nothing more than whatever makes us happy or elsewise causes us to feel good. And thus freedom is often seen as nothing more than a symptom of satisfaction, or perhaps satisfaction a symptom of freedom. Either way the two are clearly connected if not at this time nigh inseparable. At least that’s how it seems from inside this scene in which we see all of every life being lived. Not that we can actually see the sum of everything everyone’s ever done as we’re not God, though we do like to imagine we are sometimes. And yet th...

1 Timothy 6:11 NIV Run for your life Because it will turn out that there is no life amongst those who are no longer alive. And this is, in truth, a quite hard truth to accept, to understand as from where we stand it sure does seem as if we’re stood amongst man who are alive in what is a life that we all share to some degree inside this place in which we see so very many who both look like you and me, talk like you and me, live like you and me. But the problem is that indeed looks and words and wants can prove to deceive. And so too then can life itself perhaps not be all that it may elsewise seem. Such as that that is spent upon this chase for all time will come to prove was a waste of itself upon this outlook that worried only for that which this world sells. And there are truly a great deal of these unruly priorities being placed still daily upon things that are themselves ever changing in what is a world proving persistently the same: Changing. It’s all just always changing. Nothing...