Forged By Faith

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV The way unknown This is the only way by which we might ever go toward all that isn’t yet which is all that is better still than everything that already was and is as we speak. For to find something better demands a belief in something different. But to find something different asks that we do something new. And to do something new refuses always the existence of any efforts previously tried because all that we’ve already tried has already achieved the way of life that we’ve already known. And indeed, perhaps all that you know already is all you care to see, to be. And if that is the case then good for you and congratulations are in order for your having arrived at your final destination. Only problem is that this isn’t our final destination. Rather this world is but the proverbial jumping off point from which the rest of forever will be determined and that by one entirely simple matter: The presence or absence of faith. Truly, there is nothing else that really mat...

Hebrews 11:1 NIV The shift Not sure when it takes place nor even how long it takes as rather it’s a change that itself aligns rather well with this word written here. For this turning of a life on its head is something that feels different, seems different, looks, sounds, is different nearly all the time as even time itself begins to take on a quite varied appreciation from what’s long been but a measure of what we think might matter. No, in truth everything changes when He starts changing us via the hope we’re called to have and the strange courage in which it’s had. Because, well, it is entirely unlike anything we’ve ever seen or thus assumed we’ve known. And that’s because most of our lives have found us alive inside what is this mind made of this belief of mainly only that which we can see as seeing is a sensation easily proven. And, well, being a people of pride nearly perfected, we do indeed love those things which we cannot fail or be proven mistaken about. This is in fact why o...

2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV Past the present For the promise has never proven present in either the present nor the past. Rather every promise ever given is one always given for the future as, well, that’s exactly where we’re going and so that seems the very best place to place what is anything measured as a promise. And that’s because all promises are generally considered for something good, helpful, hopeful or elsewise beneficial. Granted, there are more weighty promises that are still considered promises, but they’re more generally considered threats. And make no mistake, sometimes the two walk hand-in-hand. But in general terms each of us have usually at least some say in which we find if even they do. And in truth the two do coexist inside this faith that is in Christ who is in us, or at least died to be so as to help us leave both behind what was/is a life that deserves the more threatening kind of promise as is to be soon proven in eternal punishment and that for what has truly been ...