Forged By Faith

Proverbs 9:10 NIV What is wisdom? Is it some destination defined by facts we’ve deduced thanks to the lessons which arrived us at the decisions that’ve often become the destination? Is it rather the journey we take through those lessons that perhaps we’ve not yet learned which asks that we never so endeavor to so determine that we’ve ever arrived at our destination? Is it what we know, facts and figures always found in our trying to figure it out? Is it found and felt in finding we can’t? Is it something we can even find at all? Is it something better felt and that only by faith as we insist it held always in that place that we’re not so that we’ve always something for which to strive while we’re alive inside this life? Is it knowledge? Is it understanding? Among the greatest of all life’s tragedies is found this reality that seems to show that many here seem to know what wisdom is, and that it’s always somehow right where they are living as who they are defined by what they do. Is tha...

Jeremiah 33:3 NIV What is understanding? Is it something always seen from where we’re standing at the moment in which we think we’ve found it? Is it something found only when we stop trying to see it from where we are? Is it something meant to move us toward wherever it is, whatever it does? Is it something that’s supposed to just come to us, seek us down and surprise us with whatever it is? Is it the simple veracity of the facts we know, deeper then should we happen to know more of them? Is it something based in knowledge and thus proven at least possible in light of what we know? Is it knowing that no matter what we know there’s simply always more that we don’t? Is it learning that the humility hidden inside our admitting all that we don’t know is the only place in which to find hope? Throughout my life I’ve always been one who seeks to understand the things that are happening around me, to me, in me, through me. I’ve wanted to not only undertake but to personally partake in the unde...

Proverbs 2:6 NIV What is knowledge? Is it nothing more than the sum of what we know? Is it perhaps more the mystery of the more we don’t? Is it something passed down to us from those who found it before us? Is it something we pass in the street as it lays there still waiting for someone to care about those who come next? Is it something that knows where better is, the very hiding place of that which is best? Is it the wonder won within wonder waiting for us to wonder about it? Is it the worry felt in worry and our being usually unworried by it? Is it in a hurry to get where it knows it needs to be? Is it patient enough to take it slow so that it comes to know all it needs along the way toward wherever it goes? Is it the learning we’ve met in the lessons we’ve learned? Is it an opportunity to learn still more than we could ever imagine we could still? It seems that we’ve all sort of settled upon this estimation of understanding that’s built upon the degree of knowledge already known. An...

Psalm 76:13 NIV The difficulty In this life we’ve come to measure pain in scars or at least the wounds which leave them. We estimate danger based upon the particular risk inherent within a situation. We believe sorrow something seen only inside a mirror showing a reflection of someone dejected due to a trouble they’ve brought not on themselves. Indeed, it seems we believe still this idea that has us convinced that bad things happen to good people, and that probably because we see daily good things happening to bad people. And it’s within all of this that we all stumble unto one of the more challenging aspects of not only life in this place but even more so of this faith that calls us to be here but become something else. Something that neither belongs here nor then continues to seek that feeling as if we could, should as in Christ we can’t and thus we arrive eventually upon this understanding that we simply won’t. But still, there comes for us many days in which that boat don’t float a...