Forged By Faith

Deuteronomy 20:1 NIV For while Egypt may have changed faces as we live now in different places, not much has changed in regard to the fact that life’s a fight and too that this faith calls us out of the flight and unto the line. Because, just as those streams of water which appeared in the desert back then, still there runs quietly an almost silent reminder whispered between the raindrops and rooftops which speaks a promise that can only be but an idea so long as our souls are tasked with the guiding of these vessels into the winds of God’s will for where our lives are meant to go. And because His will as paved toward that promise so purchased that it’s all but said and done leads into those winds and winds through our wants it’s often at war against what’s any given day all but anything. Somedays we fight against the hardships which steal our hope whilst within others we war against the wishes that we never seem to see might hold the very hardships which delight to steal our hope. Sim...

1 John 4:4 NIV That the odds are stacking ever higher in this land of opposition by offense finds for us a strange opportunity to offer what everyone needs whilst being nothing they prefer. Because the fact of our faith’s matter is that it doesn’t really matter the preferences preferred among this people. As inconsiderate and unloving as such may sound, seems the truth has never been all that inclined to acquiesce to our petty requests. In fact, part of the entire purpose of the premise of His promise is to protest our preferences as they prove us living a life not at all seeking His glory but rather our own gain. And as He is our Creator, He thus deserves our undivided devotion. Not quite this distracted disinterest we’ve thus far settled to show. And yet that we have settled for such a gross negligence in the grace and growth department has thus far defined a rather glaring indifference as to where our devotion is directed. We don’t really seem to care to even consider that we are de...

John 16:2 NIV We've this innate penchant for comfort that's achieving for us an already half-hearted consideration of a kind of concession and compromise that aren't found anywhere in Scripture nor within the lives of those discussed within. One of my greatest realizations which still stands firm even through these 8+ years of thinking about all this all the time in order to share something every day is this mindset which has all of us almost completely convinced that we've something to lose. It's this palpable fear found upon every face we see in this place that speaks this awareness that they're afraid to have something taken from them. That this world can take something from them. As if this world has given us anything. Ironically, what this world has given us is that which we should be ecstatic to shake off as we walk on. It's this maniacal mix of misconceptions wherein we live for ourselves, seek endless safety, avoid any sort of physical or psychologic...