Forged By Faith

Lamentations 3:26 NIV Patience is arguably one of the hardest virtues for us humans. We live in this drive-thru, microwave, smartphone world where we can get whatever we're looking for and do whatever we're trying to do almost immediately. We can hop on Google and find the answer to any question we may be pondering. We can turn on the TV and be suddenly overwhelmed with all the mind-numbing entertainment our consuming selves could possibly desire. We can find countless ways to make life quicker, and we love it! We're so used to having everything in an instant that if something takes a little time, we simply start assuming that it's not worth it. Why wait for something when we can probably find something relatively similar that we can have a lot faster? We've simply gotten it in our minds that "time is money", and we all know how badly enslaved this world is to money, so our time is seen in basically the same light. We can't waste it. We can't sit a...

Proverbs 19:2 NIV In yesterday's post I talked about how it wasn't God who had moved, but it was us. The fact is that we haven't only moved away from His side and His plans, but we've ran as fast in the other direction as possible. We've all looked around at all this shiny worldly stuff and just become fascinated by it all. We've bought the lie that we need it in order to be happy and find peace in life. So we've ran away from God to chase after far more selfish things. Sadly, we've gotten it in our minds that we know what we want, what we need. And while that's definitely not the truth, who wants to sit around and think that we're wrong? Nobody wants to entertain the idea that we've taken a wrong turn in life, let alone followed that wrong road for far too long. We just keep our eyes fixed on all these things that we just know will make us happy once we finally catch them. Truth is my friends that the road to the happiness and peace that we...