From: Sergei Nakul (pastor of Big City Presbyterian Church in Kyiv and military chaplain): A great patch with the text from Psalm 25 from Сергей Диордиев Again, I remind you that the Psalms is not just a collection of religious poetry of the distant past, but the living and díêve God’s word. At least I’m 100% sure of this. Therefore, read the psalms, keep them in your heart, pray them, sing them, encourage one another with psalms, comfort them with psalms, thank God with psalms, and most importantly, implement the psalms in your life here and now. After all, the Psalms are the Word of Christ, which must richly fill us so that Christ may be incarnated through us in the present of our being and space!
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A year ago:
Nov.21, 2022
“We all need His help but there are some people who live in a big trauma and God can use us to help them.”
From Lyuda (Day 272):
…November 21 is a Day of Dignity in Ukraine. We began to celebrate this day after the revolution of Dignity that started on this day 9 years ago.
..In the life of every country, as in the life of people, there may happen difficult periods. May the Lord bless all our countries and help us during trials to stand firmly on His Word with faith and hope.
In Christ,
From Lyuda (Day 271): Dear brothers and sisters, We start a new week with new plans and in a good mood. We start preparing for Christmas. This year all our holidays are not the same but Christmas is special. Like all churches we have our own traditions, we always had drama and special program on Christmas day. While I was thinking what we should do this year, our youth group took the initiative and told that they are already working at Christmas program. Though we can’t use holiday illumination as much as we usually did at Christmas, we still can make decorations, we can prepare special program and a number of events in the church dedicated to this wonderful season to bring the mood of Christmas to our community. It’s the season of gospel when we can share the good news very naturally greeting people with coming holiday. Christmas will be special this year.
We had a good worship yesterday, we had electricity and it was warm in our sanctuary. Four new people came to the church and I was able to talk to two new ladies. Tatyana is one of them. She came to our church in summer to receive a food bag and she visited our worship. Then she was busy and didn’t think about church. Last month she got sick and she began to think about God and to pray, she remembered a friendly atmosphere in our church and felt a desire to come and be with God’s people. As soon as she got better she came. It was nice to talk to her. She has three adult children and four grandchildren. Her husband is a former military man who went through Afghanistan war during Soviet Union time and she knows very well what PTSD is. Tatyana is very open and I hope she will enjoy the fellowship in our church..
..We all need His help but there are some people who live in a big trauma and God can use us to help them.
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Six months ago:
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 431):
May 1,2023 – Today’s picture is of a pear blossom in our garden. This pear tree was planted during the first covid lockdown in 2020 (another great time of uncertainty). It looked weak and struggling. Finally, three years later, it presents us with this beautiful blossom. What is this if not a message of hope?
“After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
Revelation 19:1-2
If you ask me, I’d say that the most encouraging book of the Bible is Revelation. Even though it is filled with terrifying images, it carries a beautiful message – the ultimate victory belongs to the Lord. What a loving God we have that He didn’t keep us in the unknown but revealed how everything would be resolved in the end. And this hope helps us persevere during the dark days.
My son often asks when the war will be over. I don’t know how to answer his question. What’s worse, I don’t know how the war will end (even though we hope for the best and trust in God’s mercy, it’s still different from knowing the outcome). We don’t know if all the threats of more massive missile attacks or nuclear strikes will be carried out. We don’t know if or when Bakhmut may fall. We don’t know when or how Crimea will be liberated. We don’t know how long or how much it would take to restore all that’s been destroyed (visible and intangible losses).
In all this unknown, I look to the One who holds the whole world and all the answers in His hands. I know that there will come a day when He will wipe away every tear, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore (Revelation 21:4). When I am overwhelmed with the uncertainty of today, I will look for this certain future He has promised.
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