From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 592):
I feel weary today.
Reports of continued massive shelling of Kherson and the region (at least 16 people, including a baby, were wounded, and an 11-year-old child in a coma). Pictures of the cemetery with freshly-dug graves in the Hroza village (the one in which a Russian missile killed 52 people attending a memorial service). Worrisome prognosis of massive drone attacks on our energy infrastructure this winter that sound very real as the temperatures start to drop (expecting the first “below-freezing” night this week). Escalations and continued cruelty in Israel with blood-chilling details from the terrorists. An earthquake in Afghanistan that took lives of well over 2,000 people.
I can’t contain all this pain.
I was even wondering if I have strength to write today’s post, and that’s when I turned to Psalm 142. It looked as if my thoughts and feelings were worded in those 7 verses. In the past almost 600 days, psalms often offered words when I had none. The Lord in His infinite wisdom knew that we would need encouragements like that, which is one more reason to keep trusting Him even in the big things.
With my voice I cry out to the Lord;
with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
I pour out my complaint before him;
I tell my trouble before him.
When my spirit faints within me,
you know my way!
In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for my soul.
I cry to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low!
Deliver me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me!
Bring me out of prison,
that I may give thanks to your name!
The righteous will surround me,
for you will deal bountifully with me.
Psalm 142:1-7
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4 responses to “10/9/2023 – With my voice I cry out to the Lord;with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord…”
Praying for you to be comforted as Jesus was in the wilderness. The oppression continues. He hears your cries and loves you. To you it must all seem so senseless, but one day we all join at the Throne of God with Jesus our Savior.
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Father- Deliver Ukraine from evil. Take away the darkness. Christ have mercy Amen
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John Bunyan, writer of “Pilgrim’s Progress”, and sufferer of many dark nights of the soul: “That Scripture came into my heart ‘This for many days.’ Indeed, I found it was so, for I could not be delivered or brought to peace again until 2 1/2 years were completely finished. Wherefore these words, though in themselves they tended to no discouragement, yet for me, who feared this condition would be eternal, they were sometimes as a help and a refreshment to me. I reassured myself with the thought that many days are not forever- many days will have an end. Therefore, seeing I was to be afflicted not a few, but many days, yet I was glad it was but for many days. This, I say, I would recall for myself sometimes and give myself a help. As soon as ever the word came into my mind, at first I knew my trouble would be long..”
from “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners”
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