Forged By Faith

Romans 13:12 NIV The responsibility It’s obviously something that we’ve all sought to refuse almost exclusively here inside what is a life in which we live as if such things are only detriments to our every delight and desire as are defined by the many things of this world in which we’ve left to live this life, one thus surrounded for still some time with what we watch daily the many around us enjoy and therefore measure as everything from pleasure to success. And thus we’ve come to equate such things as responsibility as only hindrances to what seem unto most here as the very outermost expectancy of even hope and happiness. And as this world has too become us, well, thus too have become our feelings over such matters as these. Indeed, we too, just like the many do, we seem to see through all baser human requirements such as personal responsibility, basic dignity, cultural humility and even common morality unto such an outcome in which such things now seem dumb. Truly, we’ve become a s...

Galatians 3:13 NIV The redemption It’s the active expression of what it is to redeem which is defined as either: 1- To compensate for the faults or bad aspects of, i.e. make up for or make amends for 2- To gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment, to exchange 3- To fulfill or carry out a pledge or promise, to make good on one’s word 4- To obtain the release or restoration of, such as from captivity, by paying a ransom 5- To make someone or something seem less bad, to improve 6- To free from a lien or debt by payment of an amount secured thereby 7- To deliver from sin and its consequences by means of a sacrifice offered for the sinner And what’s amazing, or at least ought to be curious enough to inspire in us a willingness to read of Him is that the Gospel of Christ Jesus is built upon the completion of every single one of every single aspect, idea, intention, direction, decision, devotion, determination and definition listed above. He accomplished on our behalf ev...

Colossians 4:5 NIV “for which I am in chains” I wonder what our world would be like would that we could share in what Paul seemed to see even in his captivity. What might it be to feel that kind of urgency to continue doing something that meant so much that not even prison was allowed to alter our passion? What if we could see through the chains we wear unto the beauty of our being here able to share stories of our too having held them so as to help others see that we have a Savior who came to destroy them? What might we have to say if that was the story we felt we couldn’t help but share? What if the Gospel was the story we felt we simply had to share no matter when, no matter where? It’s these sorts of questions that I find my mind asking my heart in what’s been a now long-fought fight between my head and my hope as was for a long time held inside a heart that just wouldn’t listen to anything anyone else had to say. For in that way all I felt I had to say was this story about what ma...

Matthew 24:42 NIV A weather eye Which is an eye both attuned to the weather as won within the wonder of what is to come within the coming hours or days (neither of which we know) and too an eye weathered into such a wonder having weathered many a worry as came storming out of nowhere only to there catch us so completely off-guard that we daren’t let our guards be off duty so much as we’ve allowed them in the past. But alas, just because there stands the ask unto the task doesn’t always mean that it’s allowed to mean to they of whom it’s asked what it is from He who asks. No, rather we’re a people vastly more prone to whether than weather, winning our wealth of worry within what is coming in a quicker hurry as held inside hopes held here. Yes, seems anymore all that humanity knows to hope for or thus move toward is but the coming of tomorrow and our desire for it bring the scene of things seen as of being of such wealth or worth that we’ve come to believe only that all things gained wit...

Titus 2:12 NIV For what none of us can be as soon as today since as of today we’re still what are projects under the projection of a protection of the promise of the Son who came for us to find us from among the many who are still wholly lost and not looking to find there any reason to find the reason behind the rejection of anything and every way that may lead further astray within either this day or any of the many others that most of us still like to assume all but assured. And why? Because we know we need the time. For what? To find the better that’s somehow never been behind our inability to say “No” to anything from ungodliness to the every other version of ugliness that we can see both within the world in which we walk and within any mirror that we walk by which seems to show only the scene of the world in us. Yes, I have indeed had a long-strained relationship with every such reflection that dares show my reflection as nothing but a reflection of all the many things that I thou...