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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.

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.

The word “cultivation” expresses the good work someone does in the garden, in their field or in any good or bad object. So if you decide to increase evil and doubt in your life then you need compassion, compromise, ignorance, and ultimately waiving of any claim.

But if you decide to increase the fruit of your labor, to cultivate your field better, to increase your level of faith, then you need agility, wisdom for everyday life, and eventually claiming every good that someone wants to deprive you of, or its conquest requires competition; hard struggle that you personally have to start and finish.

No one will fight and will not claim something for you! No one can replace you in the race of the competition. Even if someone wants to, it is explicitly forbidden by law. No one can give an exam on your behalf. It is a personal matter, and that is beyond question.

The same applies to the issues of living faith. Growth and conquering is a completely personal affair, and the idea that others will care for you is deceitful illusion and ill imagination.

The tower was part of the ancient fortification and served to protect mainly the military. They fled to it in times of war in order to prepare their defense or attack against the outer enemies.

It was a fortress of war, not of peace. However, the change in modern warfare, canceled the operation of a tower, the construction of new towers was discontinued, and the existing towers were turned into empty spaces for every use, mainly museums (in urban centers) or an irrelevant, to the reason they were built, use.

Nowadays, building a tower in Greece is obviously without reason, but at the same time it also states the suspicious thoughts of the builder of such an expensive building. So what can a modern Greek who wants to build a tower have in mind? The answer lies in the following message!

In the Greek language, the word “code” means “book”. We can all understand that a Code of Conduct is not a legal book in the sense of the written law, but it is a book that includes the elements that cannot be registered as law, but are of great value for how the law applies.

This helps people not to live under an unworthy law (= pelting the offender with stones), but even when someone begins to gradually violate a law, to give him the opportunity to perceive the consequences alone and decide to stop the illegal activities.

For the issues of living faith, this Code of Ethics is included in the Holy Bible; it is contained within the books of the New Testament and the Old Testament, and as we seek the presence of the living God, we are careful in our decisions, and above all, and we always seek good and beneficial solutions to the problems, not only of belief in the living God, but even in the matters of everyday life.

In short, the code of conduct of living and effective faith in the living God is here, and we ought to discover it and apply it daily so that our efforts can have beneficial and meaningful results.