Jesus was speaking only to me
I’ve been talking to some friends about what a personal relationship with
Jesus means. They tossed around a few metaphors to explain what they
thought this personal relationship means and they were pretty good but a
metaphor wasn’t making the statement to me that I thought best conveyed
what this personal relationship is. Basically it means to me that Jesus was
speaking only to me in His sermons. His sermons on what was required for my
salvation was meant as directives only to me and not as standards for me to
hold other people accountable to. If anyone is to be held to these
standards it is only me.
When Jesus says, “Love your neighbor.” He’s talking to me. I must love my
neighbor, not expect my brother to love his neighbor. When He tells me to
take care of the widows and orphans he means for me to do so, not expect
anyone else to take on the job.
Now I’m not saying that you can’t have this same personal relationship all
I’m saying is that I can’t expect you to. That isn’t a part of my personal
relationship with Jesus Christ.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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