Forged By Faith

1 Peter 3:3 NIV I’m increasingly convinced that among all the lies told for and from mankind, perhaps the most damaging will be that heard within how beauty is defined only behind the eyes of the beholder of such. For since when did beauty become so shallow as to be something supposedly only seen in its entirety? Does something such as the overall allure of the human soul truly know such a bounds as to be beheld by the eye alone? Or might we have merely settled for such a foolish assumption due to such sinfulness as lust and thus our looking always to our eyes to tell our minds that what we see is what’s best to crave? Indeed, we are anymore just so depraved as what’s now defined as such a superficial people that we seem almost entirely unable to understand the fullness of our existence. Rather we all just swim atop the surface in what seems a shared fear of our finding out just how much more we’ve always been. Because were we to ever see that life isn’t meant to be so limited as to be...

1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV Rather at the merest consideration as to the cost paid to ransom these souls we’ve sold, no, we are tasked with the testimony of Christ’s triumph over our tragedy. And it’s one best told, make that only told within our every single moment and movement as both motivated by a great and growing gratitude that should be in fact so deep within us that we abhor the idea that anything we do or say or think or assume might be elsewise built behind the tendency of blinded eyes and disbelief to dance only upon the surface. No, we cannot so discount this deliverance as it is something that all need yet none might ever afford no matter how special or successful or precious or important or significant or bold or beautiful or powerful or popular we may ever be able to think ourselves to be. For this price He paid is now owed within the debt of a life, and simply put, one lost within the veil of vanity is not worth near enough to measure up to the mercy of the Messiah as His sa...

Ecclesiastes 2:11 NIV In vain. Such is both to where and in what most if not all of life is aimed anymore, in vain. And such too is why nothing is ever gained. For anymore it’s all a matter measured in whether or not we’re where or what we’ve wanted to see or show unto those who look as we upon only the surface of things. Indeed, such is vanity in that vanity is but a setting of our sights upon the scene shown of the shown and seen. It’s our looking to those things that we can see as the only matters allowed to matter all that much for only the sheer simplicity of so allowing our sight to continue stealing our life. And indeed, to walk this time believing only our eyes has not only made matters worse in terms of the growth of vanity and vitriol, but it’s in fact perhaps even been what’s contributed most to our now commonly shared outlook within which most seem quite content to contend that nothing matters at all. Thus the furthering of the fall. For life was never a matter to be measur...

Psalm 127:1 NIV Every day for a decade. Just yesterday marked the tenth full year of doing this every single day, meaning then that today is the start of the 11th in what are as many more as He might help me to write. And I had this slight inkling to gear that post, and too this one as well, in the direction of celebrating that milestone. But it seems that across the past ten years of doing this that I’ve managed to lose my selfish affinity for such fanfare as that is now considered through mine opening eyes. And so I just continued along the normal string of thoughts and things as opposed to making the point about the numbers. Because I hate numbers having realized of late that my life for quite some time now has been quite reliant upon their ease of measuring my meaning. And in that I’ve too just found that I’ve found along this way a novel new inability to desire the status quos that I’ve allowed constructed within my daily considerings and conversings and traversings of thoughts an...