Forged By Faith

Zechariah 7:11 NIV Voicemail It’s that thing that we consider a modern convenience that allows us, whilst always busy, entirely too much so to be ever bothered by what is in all likelihood a message we don’t really care much about anyway, to get around to hearing something from someone else whenever we’ve either the time to do so or, and vastly more common the case I consider, we’re finally interested in hearing whatever this other has to say. It’s a thing that lets us choose when we pay attention, doing so always only at our earliest convenience. And that tends to usually work okay among people who are themselves busy and probably would agree that most things that they might leave messages about aren’t really all that pressing nor important anyway. It’s just that God’s not a person and, while probably very busy what with, you know, keeping all of us alive and this world spinning just right so as to hold us to the ground rather than watching us get flung all around, His messages that H...

Isaiah 63:10 NIV The war within It’s the one waged without what is the hope of hope itself as, well, we’ve become of a mind who so believes that we alone know always best in life that we cannot risk being proven wrong. And this fear of our folly being what our failures know it to be but our pride insists it isn’t has left us taking always to arms against even the long arm of the Lord who uses said length so as to reach those who are so very lost as to think they’ve found what life is in this place in which life isn’t. Because indeed, while we may have a life here the truth of life is that for us to so assume that all of it is supposed to be here, to fit here, to stay here, this has left us lost in a willingness to lose it all. For no matter how great we may come to think we are, still comes the fall. I reckon the problem is that as a people we don’t experience it for the most part within this place. Rather this place had become a pride’s paradise in that nearly every aspect of life its...

Acts 7:51 NIV The perpetuation Among all of our curious attributes, demeanors, characteristics, chatters, cancers, confusions, delusions, decisions, demands and destructions it seems as though our ability to repeat something pretty much endlessly is perhaps our greatest strength. And indeed, depending upon the topic or trial or triumph or turmoil being considered, said ability to reprise our lives, or that of those who had theirs before we had ours, can be a good thing should the topic or trial or triumph or turmoil actually prove to be unto our undeniable benefit. Problem is that there is nothing beneficial about our having made rejecting God, denying Christ and resisting then the third part of the only hope we have so common and arguably commendable as we have. In fact it can only go bad. And yet as a people who seek always to repeat those things that all other people have always tried to prove, seeking always to show ourselves strong, resilient and sure we all sure seem to be forget...

Proverbs 29:1 NIV A life for learning Such is in truth what all of us have and thus what all of this is. It’s all just one big lesson that we’re given the chance to live here learning in regard to what is right and what of that is actually righteous and how sadly often we’re neither nor anywhere close. For such is the truth of the path we’ve chose. It’s this daily drive to be like and liked by a fallen mankind who continue to fall to and through all sorts of opportunity to do better, to be better, to indeed find more. Nearly every such chance left broken on the floor of a life fallen to flood as is poured in all we love and the little we learn about why we maybe shouldn’t care for it quite so much. Alas, that’s never really a thought that we seem interested in ever even trying to think about maybe thinking about. Rather whenever we determine that we like something, enjoy something, love something or someone, most questions just stop being asked. We just bask inside the supreme simplici...

Psalm 73:19 NIV As it was Anymore I seem to find myself thinking more frequently about that verse and passage found for us over in Matthew 24 in which Christ our Lord is talking to those who’ve ears to hear and a heart finally willing to let them about what it shall be like upon the return of the Son of Man. And I think that’s because I do look around and see a people eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, indulging in every possible sort of revelry and rebellion that we can possibly manage to think of. Just don’t see many building boats. And granted, it’s not raining. It’s not even cloudy most days. Instead most days the skies are clear, the weather’s fair, the water’s fine and so everyone’s both welcomed to jump on in and most continue to do just that. It’s just that the water is sin and it’s got us all convinced to live so thin in regard to righteousness and self-control that, for all we know, nothing is ever going to change. And this is something that so many continu...