Although this daily expression in the greek language has an adjective in the opposite sense (“have bad things come your way”), I chose this title because weather is a neutral factor.
Time, weather, circumstance can be both good and bad, depending on how one wants to interpret their everyday life. While it is usually up to us to focus on the positive and beneficial, we usually begin to grumble because we did not achieve what we had envisioned, and we always blame others for our failure.
Because while each case can have just as good as it can have bad sides, we usually highlight the bad sides, with the result of our mental world lacking the joy that offers even a slight success. If one accepts the golden rule that every cloud has a silver lining, that is, in the bad sides one can see positive elements, then it is obvious that the promotion of the bad and gray and the concealment of the positive ones, damages our own image.
The result? Because we do not focus and reproduce the good side but the bad one, we give ourselves the right to the enemy to fill the image of our life with denial and destructive poison, and that is a powerful element of our personal failure, that is, letting others decide in our lives and not decide for ourselves.
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The Duties of the Thief
Like any good practitioner, the robber also has their duties, the way they work and their goals for best results.
They first locate their victim, examine their sensitive points, study their movements, and eventually, at the right time they attack, grab the sheep that has been isolated, slaughter it and take away its life.
These are the characteristics of the thief. They don’t regret, they are not ashamed, they do not appreciate life. For them, the best thing is slaughter and death, not life. Unlike the merciless thief, Christ taught with the same precision and detail, His own duties, the way He applies them, and His goals for better results.
The objective of Christ is the perpetua vitae, meaning the continuous and ongoing life without gaps and dead ends, without trauma to the lost sheep, but safely leading it to its own safe tower and, when it recovers from the discomfort that the thief had caused, to go out, find food and return to its master’s security.
This is the work of Christ and the work of the thief.