My New House!!

"But he knows the way that I take; when he tested me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:10

Pink house

Hallway

Dining Room

Lounge

Kitchen

Summer's room

Garden

Alfie's Room

My Room

Elis's Room

This is Summer

My name is Summer, I am a Westie/Kelpie cross, I don't know what that means but,

I like this.

 

I can climb trees when I chase squirrels, because I really, really

want one, of my own. All to myself.

And you will see this.

And this.

And this.

 While I do this...

I also do this.

And this...

You will know I have had enough when I do this!

I will make you do this.

And I will make you look like this,

and this...

I will introduce you to new friends 

and heroes

and legends

we will have fun.

My name is Summer x

Leviticus RBT God's blood

Leviticus gives us an amazing perspective of God in our lives and in our world but you can't see the perspective unless you look at the whole picture Leviticus is a picture of Jesus and Jesus talking to his people, 'The Lord said.' What they know, which we seem to forget, is you can't see the whole picture unless you are willing to live in the blood, remembering the salt and keeping the fire burning.
It reminds us that God has not changed and nor have we, in fact it is kind of startling how much Leviticus has to say to us today about how we live and how God loves us and wants to live with us.
Leviticus is all about the blood, and the people's participation in the blood, the slaughtering of the animals, skinning and cutting them into pieces, the blood drained, the blood sprinkled, "the inner parts washed", they dip their fingers in the blood, they wear the blood. Amongst all the gore I have never before seen such a picture of purity, such an image of sanctification and hope.

Leviticus portrays a life of sacrifice, repentance and atonement which today we have forgotten and replaced with the era of  the self. Literally the hollow hell of the 'selfie,' the meaningless of me, my and mine. Alternatively Leviticus depicts a world of humility, where sinners understand their need of a Saviour, where they look at, hear, smell, taste and wear the reality of Jesus' sacrifice everyday, every minute of everyday. Radically, individual and community are called to the responsibility of self realisation and a sensitivity of wrong doing, intentional or unintentional, because they are living in the very presence of God's blood.

In Leviticus God's blood is for everyone; including the poor, including the alien, the scapegoat is sent outside the camp too, there is fairness in servitude, there is release from slavery and captivity, there is peace through obedience, the Jubilee is coming, your debts will be wiped out, there is hope  because they haven't forgotten the blood and they haven't forgotten the salt and they kept the fire burning.

The king of the world didn't die on the toilet eating a hamburger, leaving nothing but questions and despair, rather the King of the world was ordained to shed his blood as an everlasting atonement for the sins of the world in order to provide answers and hope and a perspective on life and living. This God who turned oceans into blood and water into wine says I love you yesterday, today and tomorrow , I died for you all, my boarders are not closed, my promises are everlasting.

That's the King of Leviticus and that's my King.




Leviticus Notes
Perpetual picture of Christ

Salt- judgement, don't forget the salt, 13 Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.

Sacrifice

unintentional sins  Chapter 4:
realisation
repentance, individual and community
the sinner's place
the sinner accepts he needs a Saviour


sin of not speaking up Chapter 5
thoughtless
careless
awareness and sensitivity of sin
confession
"will be held responsible"

God's blood "I am the Lord"

a handful of flour 5.11

"The fire must be kept burning continuously, it is not to go out"  Chapter 6

Holy- You/I
Chapter 7 list of offerings, God's sacrifice
Chapter 8 blood on lobes and toes 23 Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. 

wear Jesus-armour of God, dressed in Jesus. Listen to Jesus, do as Jesus does, follow Jesus.

One day

I am not going to lie, the day I first started walking my dog in the mornings, I thought I was going to die.
Those first weeks in January and February were dark, cold and gruelling, to say the least. I would fall into bed in the evenings crying from the aches and the agony. One night I distinctly remember lying in bed and wondering why the end of my nose ached; my eye lids, my forehead, the tops of my feet, the end of my toes, what possible muscles had I exercised there? Not since my children were pram age had I walked so far, so regularly, and even then not at such pace, and not with the sole purpose of heading for the open country.
Many times we arrived at the park just as the sun was peeping, the grass white with wet and the trees stalwart shadows, the dog and me, the only owners of the acreage. Then I let Summer run free, for pure joy, for squirrels, field mice and interesting smells. After the hill, my breath comes more easily and I begin hearing from within me a laughter, then laughing out loud, at her slip and slide, at her head over paw roll-overs and death-defying somersaults. Laughter first thing in the morning, in the sun and the rain, laughing at the sheer joy of it all.
It reminds me I am only designed for one day, I am only created for  one day, and I only have grace and wisdom and love enough for today.
All these one days have sort of joined up and held hands and carried me off from where a I was, just as if I had jumped over the moon.