Forged By Faith

2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV seeks beyond the surface Inside what is a life in which we slowly begin to realize that not merely are looks often deceiving, sometimes they’re just plain imaginary. And this is a hard thing for us to consider considering how we’ve all walked for years in what is this fear of relying upon anything other than our sense of sight. For so long it’s been but our eyes which have led our lives and that always in accordance with the coordinates given us by the things we’ve seen or sought not to. Indeed, life, as far as we know to live it, it’s been lived in love with our eyes keeping our heads above the surface seeking ways in which to avoid the suffering and find the successes. Yet anymore all I for one seem to see are but the messes from which we shall not walk away. At least not without some sort of price being paid. Thankfully said price was paid by He who came with the express intent to pay it in a kind of permanent that rendered pointless the entirety of all that w...

Romans 8:18 NIV What we’re missing. It’s the chance to find joy in changing. It’s the opportunity to experience hope in hardship. It’s the ability to recognize the necessity of loss. It’s the growth in an understanding that there’s simply more to life than all there is to find where we’re standing. It’s the importance of humility and its unique capacity to help us find a way of life filled with so much happiness that simply cannot exist whenever a person feels they’re owed such a gift as happiness truly is. It’s the peace that comes with knowing where we’re going and that the promise waiting at the end of the road is worth more than all the pain the road will hold. It’s the gift of getting to walk that road with He who both knows the way through all the worst this world can bring but also that so well that He is the Way to everything this world will never know. It’s the resolve to dissolve our every worry over absolute destruction designed inside all the danger we’ll face and, with tha...

1 Peter 4:1 NIV What is unanimity? Is it some mere matter of a mass of people agreeing to agree? Is it this shared ability, for however short and in whatever way, to see the same thing in the same degree? Is it the degree in which we do agree being for once seen as of plausibly more importance than our tendency to not? Is it finding within us the audacity to agree with something that we know we’d usually not? Is it not a measure of humility as such must exist for us to so come alongside anyone else in what is a share of that for which they care, a joining together of considerations aimed at the same outcome for a time? Is it a time to set aside our many internal differences and debates and simply let both courage and curiosity have their way? Is it not today, the day in which we do still have said time to seek for our share of His mind who came to where we live this life so as to live one too but only to do as we’d not done so that we could see inside of how He’d lived His something di...

Philippians 1:29 NIV What is clemency? Is it a tendency towards showing mercy that thus all but demands they who are thus show it then to all of us? Is it something then of an all but foregone conclusion even if it can then be diluted as something we can, and will, take for granted? Is it a line of lenity given unto the lost who themselves, being lost, haven’t any idea what lenity even is nor then how to use it as they cannot possibly understand its purpose? Is it something done on purpose as all mercy must be or rather a gift given with a decidedly more measured expectation than mere praise and appreciation? Is it the sufferance of someone else agreeing to suffer either with us or perhaps for us, or, in our case, to suffer through us doing as we all so clearly know we shouldn’t? Is it lenience which allows us to do what we shouldn’t whilst then enduring what we don’t agree we should knowing that the combining of both is the only true hope of our both finding and becoming something bet...