Voice of Ukraine

From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 494):

Rise up; come to our help!
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!
Psalm 44:26

Throughout the past 16 months, I often remind myself to trust God’s character. I know He is a loving, almighty, omniscient, faithful God. I know that we don’t deserve His mercy, and that’s why in my prayers, I rarely appeal to Him based on what we did or didn’t do, but I appeal to His steadfast love. We change, we stumble, we fall short of His glory, but He remains faithful. He never changes. He is still the God who defends the case of a widow, an orphan, a sojourner, or anyone oppressed. So we can trust Him.

Over the past 16 months, we’ve seen too much pain that will need to be processed at some point. We’ll need to grasp the toll this war has taken on us, our relationships, our families, our children, our communities. We’ll need to grow and heal. But right now, we can only petition for God’s saving power to be revealed in Ukraine.

Through you we push down our foes;
through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
For not in my bow do I trust,
nor can my sword save me.
But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.
In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to your name forever.
Psalm 44:5‭-‬8