Colossians 2:12 - It's become natural reaction for our to measure everything via what we think it means we'll lose. Salvation sadly no different. But what if we rather dared see it for all it meant we got to let go? May help more than we know. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Romans 6:6 - It's at this point sadly natural to see surrender for only the measure of all it asks we lose. But if all we really lose is a way of life lived lost and in chains there, well then what more might be gained in our so waving goodbye? #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Ephesians 2:14 - One day we're all going to find that it was all our anger in life that kept us from looking for all the peace and hope and joy that was always waiting for us to want it more than all the unhappiness we saw more clearly instead. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Hebrews 8:13 - Obsolescence is nothing more than the search for perfection undertaken through however many imperfections may be met and/or experienced along the way. But when you find that perfection, it stands to reason that you stop looking. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Mark 2:21 - We've somehow managed to come upon this insistence in life that Christ, though dying to achieve our spiritual forgiveness, doesn't mind us doing still the very same things which caused His suffering. And yet we think ourselves wise. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Luke 14:33 - It seems as though it's entirely easy for us to misunderstand the overall cost of this journey. And that's because, one day at least, it will in fact prove to cost us to lose everything we've ever had or hoped to be. Are we ready? #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Proverbs 4:7 - By now we should all know that for our to get something demands we at first give something. Because, well, be it time or money, interest or worry, everything costs us something. Question is what our faith is seemingly worth then. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Psalm 34:14 - Often in life we measure it by the destinations we think we've arrived at. As if life or hope or peace is something to be proven in this place in which all are found only to be lost eventually. Perhaps they're permanent elsewhere. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Romans 7:19 - One day we'll find that blessed are those who've known guilt, shame, regret in life. Not because they helped to make life fun or us feel good. But because they help us see the better we can be and to seek the courage to become it. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Revelation 3:19 - Can you imagine what this would be like if God had always done what we've often asked Him to? If He'd really left us alone to do as we please, never bothered with any rules or laws or things? Nor a cross? Terrifying isn't it? #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Romans 7:16 - Amongst all the strife found in a life of faith is that felt in realizing that our wrongs only prove the right we could have done but chose clearly then not to. It's a humbling truth to be sure. Question is will we allow its work? #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Romans 7:15 - One of the more curious outcomes of this faith is that it shows us unto an honesty that achieves in us the ability to admit that at least some of what we say or do is only all we wish not to. All of it to inspire us unto humility. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Galatians 5:17 - One day we'll all look up to find that finding only all we wanted and feeling only good all the time was never actually the goal. Rather the goal's always been to rid our focus of our flesh so that we can better walk by faith. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Romans 7:5 - The struggle of salvation is that's a gift found only in our finding all the mistakes we've made that define us as needing it so badly. So be it. It doesn't need to be fun or feel good for the point is finding better going forward. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Romans 8:6 - There's undoubtedly a real madness to our being helped to see all the mistakes we've made inside the lost kind of life we've lived. But perhaps seeing all we've lost is all that can help inspire us to not risk losing anything more. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Jeremiah 17:9 - One of the very last things that we've been taught to seek is the sheer degree of the decay, deception and dishonesty that we've agreed to believe. But friends, however can we be better if we see not first how far we are away? #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Isaiah 44:20 - There comes a sad truth for all of us and that is that in this life we've trusted in so many lies that they've become this wall that's long kept us blind to the reality of who we've become at the soiled hands of all we've done. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Jeremiah 2:13 - It simply amazes me how we still can't seem to see that our plans and preferences are so parched as they are. I mean, if we really knew what we were doing matters, then we're the proof? What have we to show for the life we know? #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Job 15:31 - Such things as hope and trust ought to mean a little more to us than to trust them to things, thoughts or theories that may well prove, again as has before, not worth the wonder and worry we gave to them instead of to all we didn't. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth
Jonah 2:8 - One of the hardest realities is won in realizing that we'll never know the life we could have lived had we come to love God long before we did. So much lost in lives spent not walking with Him. Thankfully we've time to turn around. #Jesus#God#Bible#theforge#truth