Forged By Faith

Hosea 2:5 NIV Born this way And so we go this way. Because our way is the way of the ways that those who came and went before us went when they came to believe that they too should live only to go wherever they determined for themselves was best to be. And indeed, still do we even today live as if we ourselves know best what is both to the right and what more is wrong and thus to be left only unknown, unwelcomed, unwanted, and unwon. For to win within what is a world in which the best way is always that of another, well, we’re then bound to follow the other until we find another that looks better. Because along this way best has always this way of somehow improving. All while we ourselves have none of the same potential. For rather we all live as if we’ve arrived at what is our potential’s pinnacle as purported by a pride reporting as if our lives are the stuff of both legend and lore and then best to be seen everywhere and in everything from the nightly news to the billboards strewn a...

Jeremiah 17:10 NIV Nowhere to hide For He who is the Lord is He who knows the mind. And He who knows the mind, who is the Lord, the same is He who knows then the heart and the reasons and refusals thus scattered behind the many choices we’ve made and the better chances, changes that we didn’t choose. Yes, He who came with a life to lose in light of the lost way of life we’d lived, He is the same as Him to whom we shall all give account and receive there a reward as won in response to what we’ve done. And this means we’re all in big trouble! Because aside from a world built upon a society based inside of affirmation, there is no other way to secure the needed justification for any action as done either outside or in fact blatantly against the perfect will of God. In fact, in light of His call that, in light of that, we too would seek to perfect holiness out of a reverence of He who is holy, that call for us to be perfect is what now stands against us as is evident in our every failure, ...