Forged By Faith

Philippians 2:8 NIV Humility’s obedient appearance To set such captives free as have become you and me, He who is the forever indeed chose to deny Himself his due, choosing instead to enter into the sinful existence of we who’s substance has become anything but the humility He is. All because He’s always known that humility is the only way to learn what we've never known, and thus find what we've never found, and thus be where we've never been as who we've thus never become. And now indeed, it's all through Him, and yet that we can't find Him is what's meant to be humbling. For the hope of said humility is that He found us and thus that all we need to know is how to trust. And yet what a humbling request that's become! Because it’s one that comes in only a death. Because in many ways that’s all humility really is. It’s a dying to something we’d elsewise go on living for or striving toward or hoping in or holding high as if the apple of our eye can be wit...

Philippians 2:7 NIV Rather A word which poses the proposed proposition of what’s another option as posed upon a place, path or person that was thus not chosen leaving the win to rather the rather that was. And we now know this because of our having ourselves chosen a great many things we, at the time at least, thought were better than the other we could have chosen rather. And too because of that path paved by the promise of the profit of the punishment met first rather than later. Promised by He who did what we needed rather than that for which we’ve yet to find reason. For our paths have been mostly chosen based upon what we wanted as determined by what we thought would work best for us. And thus His way makes no sense as it’s one won within sacrifice. And we’ve never really seen much reason for that. Other than love. For to lay down one’s life for any other is a path rather rare to take. And indeed, this coming Monday we celebrate the memorial of those memorialized within that makin...

Philippians 2:6 NIV Advantageous Such is what all assume our every life is, merely some sort of subway token meant to be spent upon whatever it may take to prove our advantage within the moment for which we live. Indeed, we daily drive as if barely alive unto these dime-store desires inside of which we’ve hired ourselves out to be slaves to every manner of mammon and the mankind that makes it all seem always so much more valuable than our very lives are considered anymore. And it’s a strange paradox of a problem to be sure because we don’t see our lives as being as worthless as we live as if they’ve become. Rather we still seem to see and assume ourselves kings of castles made of both conflict and concrete. Mostly leaving us just a conflicted concretion concreted within the conflict as to what matters most to the flesh within a life still lived seeking it best as if always known within only the moment in which most things matter. Yes, by now you know just how much I truly loathe that l...

Romans 13:14 NIV Foreigners and exiles. Seems that so much would be squished or squashed should we come unto that point and place in which our daily desires are not driven by that common human demand to all but feel at home again. Which is what does indeed design so many of our depraved disasters and selfish tragedies. It’s this overall longing for a place of belonging, a deep-seeded understanding that we were made for more than where we’re standing and what we’ve stood for because of it having been what it’s become. Yes, we know we need a home, but it feels as if the problem is just that we still allow our hopes to be housed within tenement triumphs and the tattered trophies won within them. Because those things are what matter here. It’s all about what we have as hoisted high as if to try and tell the world that we’re both really alive and doing some pretty impressive things with our lives. And yet our understanding of impressive has been largely impressed upon us by those inspired b...

Romans 8:12 NIV Obliged It’s a burden built upon an obligation as originated by the originator of a rather original ordination as ordained upon the object of this other’s affection or perspective as purposed upon the outcome they desire as demanded to be agreed to be of such importance that we ourselves fall into a share of the amount of care that went in to our having this air both by which to breathe, yes, but also then for us to believe that we’re here for more than just breathing air. After all, for the purpose of a matter to never go any further than the matter in which it was made seems a rather shallow expectation, doesn’t it? I mean, nothing is ever begun with the express purpose of it never being more, going further, doing better. Rather, all we do in life is done within the frame of mind that understands that there are such things as learning curves and training milestones met along them that provide us the providence of some provenance as to the progression of ourselves and ...

Romans 8:13 NIV By the Spirit. For the only way to live beyond the death we’ve designed inside our every depraved delight is to die the death all such detestability so deserves. In other words, if we’re to ever live again after the death we’ve enjoyed within the sins that enjoy the same, we must become ghosts, spirits who are but remnants of a once lived life then finally lost unto the accord with the overall promise of all human occupation. And that both that we’re here occupying what isn’t ours and too what we choose to do within this time that we’re here that isn’t ours either. Rather all of our every life is only lived because God said we can, and that, for whatever reason we’ve yet to realize, we should try again within what is this new day as given us once more. And we’ve had a great many new days thus far. I’m on day 13,648 myself, having just concluded 13,647 about 7 hours ago. And yet it’s that into one more I go that’s become to me an agreement that I need them all. As many a...