Forged By Faith

1 John 5:4 NIV The rebirth of belief It changes not only what we see but what we seek and why. It alters what we think and causes us to reconsider the reasons for which we think it. It offers us a fresh start and that even every day if we need. For this faith, one built not on what we see but where it is that we hope to go and the narrowness that is the road by which we’ll arrive, it’s such a strange life as it always seems to find this audacity to continue imagining things better than we’re even able to believe in at the time. All because as this world spins so too do we lose our ability, our interest to continue spinning with it. Rather we begin to come apart. And, well, that’s where a life finally starts. Because all of us have lived what is one way. Now that’s obviously not to say that we’ve all lived the same as there are among each of us such varied differences in regard to desires, dreams, destinations, definitions, determinations, devotions, disciplines and the all too common l...

Revelations 3:21 NIV So wake up sleeper. For if we’re to ever arise we must first revive into what is the life we’ve scarcely proven able to live from within what is a bed made of a doubt and disbelief so desperately deep that alas most days we sleep inside the substance of things seen being those only for which we believe. And thus we need to awake if we’re to arise into that life that He at first laid down but only to then take up to what is the outcome of a victory the likes of which not even death can stand against. And this is something we’ve been told plain of the plane which is His promise as proven first within the problems that we’re to have if we’re to hold He who is the hope that we all need to overcome them. It’s just then that He’s often too the one hope we cannot see. Because within this life the problem and strife are always far closer, or so it feels. Yes, nearly every day brings a nearly novel change that we’re asked to at the least consider as blown in by the whether ...

Mark 16:6 NIV Where were we? Well, where we were isn’t where we have to be now that He isn’t where He was but is rather where He went to lead us from both what and where and thus too who we used to be. And thus it’s we, you and me, who are now not to be what we’ve been as a result of both where we’ve been and thus who we’ve become as having become like those who’ve too been what we’ve been thanks to what this world’s become. Rather all of us have now in Jesus that freedom that frees us to be what we’ve not ever been able to be but can now finally become: Free. Because until this day, as achieved roughly some 730,000 days or so ago, freedom is something we’d not have had the ability to know. Because until that day when He emptied that grave, to so grow into what we’ve now the chance to know was something we didn’t know how to do as it was something that came only at the loss of a life lived to lose. And this is something of still such a confused controversy that even still today we all ...

1 Corinthians 15:54 NIV So then why the sky? That question crossed my mind yesterday as I climbed closer to it within what is an apartment stairwell on a mail run reading a credit card offer that sought to inspire my debt with the promise of the sky still being the limit for what might be possible should I have all this extra funding that was never mine to begin with. And it’s within such oddities as these that I find an inescapable truth in regard to how the Lord does indeed work in some pretty strange ways! Like using junk mail to inspire what is today’s attempt at my once again seeking His glory through a story He’s been telling both to and through me for a growing portion of my adult life. A story set in impossibilities that only a child could believe. Because it’s one asked in questions pondered in response to common normalities such as old wives tales and a culture of clichés. And in fact it’s one that brings about such wonderings within even the wee hours of the mornings in that...

Romans 8:37 NIV All these things. What things? All things. Social condemnation. Public humiliation. Personal consternation. Worldly distraction by all this desecration and decimation we see being designed by and demanded of this widespread and spreading declaration of the contemplation of execration and detestation of all who decline the invitation to life their lives so vastly lost as most inside the shared consideration of the proclamation that God isn’t there, doesn’t care, will not judge nor condemn any and all who deny Him. Yes, we live in a world convinced God is dead or simply never existed, and the ramifications of such blatant idiocy are igniting inside the vast majority an utter hatred of all who they feel feeble enough to actually abide by hearts that have the audacity to believe in such betterment as this victory into which we were born. For it’s such victory that all have since forgotten, hence the sin that sells with such value to a person that we’ve all sold away even ou...