@ENKELI Hi dear how are you going up in hot Perth? We had 30s over here as well, and thunder and lighting and rain at the same time. i hate weather like that. We got fires burning all across the south west i've been told, and Albany High has been closed as well.
With regards to images of Jesus on the cross. i've been brought up Reformed, that's a bit like Presbyterian, and crosses with Jesus on it were taboo! A sin even!
Neither have i been taught to expect to meet Jesus in my heart, but i was told would go to Heaven when i died, or when Jesus would came back to to judge the world. For only those who believed The Truth, as Reformed dogma had it would be saved then and the rest would go of to hell.
Even other believers in 'false' Christian Churches would burn forever. For they did not serve God correctly as He had demanded and commanded our forefathers who's writings we had adhered to for near 400 years. We were also not allowed to go on our bikes on Sunday, go ice-skating, shops, cinema, or change out of our Sunday clothes. And twice to Church, four times during Easter and Christmas.
The worst part was that i been taught to understand Jesus to rule from Heaven, and was seated on the right hand of God, and that all death, sickness and destruction going on was also His will and from His 'Fatherly' hand.
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Today The Cross stands central in my life. For i know that only through The Cross do we get to the resurrection, and that there is no other Way to The Father.
For when Jesus was revealed in my life, i did not meet Him in Heaven Above beside His Father, but in my hell, keeping my life safe in His life, suffering me in my lies far more than i did or had to. It has been Down in my pit that i met The Truth of my death in Him, as well as The Truth of His death in me.
For me meeting Jesus in my heart like that began my journey through the book of Revelation in real time the Living Word i now know Him to be. Even as Jesus raised me in my dead good life, His life, along the way.
When Jesus appeared in my life i was in my religious alter, and promptly was placed last in this self.While tenderly i met Him in my paranoid alter, and was invited to rule with Him over my life, instead of freak my life like i had for so long. And now finally, years after, in my raging/evil alter, i have also been found. And have received grace, forgiveness, love and peace, and have also been dded to the body of my believer within my inner being raised in Him and through Him the first resurrection.
i know He will collect me in my full 144,000 righteous selves in Christ. All the selves i have lived over my past life truthful, but died my lies. Yet now i know i have been saved by Him to have eternal rule over life, in and with, Him. God's salvation is totally out of this world that much i know to be true about all that.
Otherwise i had a full on day. i have been having some issues with flow reduction valves for some time. The three i bought all packed up, even the expensive one. Now last week i designed and made one myself. And the issues the other valve had this had had not near as much, but it could still happen. (If the valve does not reduce the water flow when the levels get too high then the pond runs over, and the water in my filter is lost.)
So today i redesigned the valve completely. Learning from the manufacturing mistakes as well as my own. Spending a lot of time soldering, adjusting and re-designing. A valve that cannot get the issues the others did but will do the job without me having to worry about my water levels.
Furthermore my wife kept on losing chicken to the foxes that have been around the last week or so. Today there were tow foxes so we took Shadow out, for she is a very good hunter and completely obedient when it comes to catch, bring, stop, or the forbidden word to 'finish it'.
Luckily she caught it and i could dispose of it. My wife lost 7 or 8 chicken and a fowl, just over the last three days. My wife has been devastated. So i was very glad we got at least one of the culprits and hopefully, its remains will shy the other one away from coming back and taken more. It has been years since we have issues with foxes but they can become a real issue when they successfully take one or two.
So all in all i have had a really full on but satisfying day.
The Cross ought to be central in our lives when we still hurting sinful life. (Isaiah 53 tells me!)
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