Forged By Faith

John 3:19 NIV A close cousin to the commonly-loved 3:16, for God doth indeed so love the world that the verdict is in, signed, sealed, literally delivered unto us as a babe which came to pave the way that still we question somehow. Perhaps it’s managed to remain a topic of much invasive doubt and public debate because, as if an invading, so is the will of God who saw fit to shine through to however many few might dare do as many, if not most, seem all but entirely, eternally unwilling to. Yes, perhaps this idea fits this best, this consideration of His most confusing concierge who came to call us to care, to come, to convene a culture in which we consider the constructs of our confusions and delusions and the damnations they’re continually continuing to design. We just don’t know any other way, even though He told us plain that He is the Way. Still we seem most days rather perfectly lost inside our own minds, victims of our own understandings. This is something that’s started to dawn o...

Romans 6:21 NIV Perhaps the greatest gravity to a life’s regret is given in that there is here within this life as lived within a world’s temporality an unavoidable brevity to all benefit, especially those received only in the moment. For the true reality of our mortality is that any of it spent outside of morality is thus recused into what is to become before long an eternal accusation of our having chosen to honor ourselves within our lives as lived within a billion separate moments in which are made either memories or mistakes, both combining into a message that chimes this choice saying that we feel as if our lives are ours alone. And we make this choice so very often because it’s the very ideal to which this humanity has decided to descend. Indeed, everyone here at one time or another lives as if they’re here only to do as they please as if our personal proclivities such as pleasure and preference can truly provide a life its purpose. But you see, when at first we dissolve into th...