WORD OF THE DAY - 04 March 2011 Mykolayiv, Ukraine

I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things. (Isaiah 45:7 ESV)


Я образую свет и творю тьму, делаю мир и произвожу бедствия; Я, Господь, делаю все это. (Исаия 45:7 Russian)

Я, що світло формую та темність творю, чиню мир і недолю творю, Я Господь, Який робить це все! (Исая 45:7 Ukrainian)

Yo formo la luz y creo las tinieblas, traigo *bienestar y creo calamidad; Yo, el SEÑOR, hago todas estas cosas. (Isaías 45:7 Spanish NVI)

Dear LORD, our Father in Heaven ~ Thank you for the scintillating gift of life on this new day that arrives with even more certain evidence of your presence in all creation. Give us more of your infinite wisdom so that when we see great calamities or unusual periods of peace and prosperity, we will not think that we are totally responsible for all events that impact our daily affairs. Give us stronger faith in your perfect plan to reunite people of all nations through Christ. In the blessed name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

We are having much longer periods of daylight here in Ukraine, and that means the temperatures are going up above freezing during the day. Freezing reappears very rapidly following nightfall. We continue to be amazed at the strong interest in God’s word that is exemplified in the commitment to attend each and every meeting of the church by our dear Stepan and Luda. Now, we add Nadya to that list. She is our new friend and seeker after Christ. She lives on the same route taxi route that we do, and we enjoyed getting better acquainted with her on the way home last night. During the day, we had an excellent and rewarding study with Dima who is one of our friends from the University. He is the first person from the group to come to our English classes using the Bible. He is a very serious student and we look forward to working with him in the weeks and months ahead. We also met with our new friend Natalya who is studying web design at another institution here in the city. She had finished the introductory lesson at home and we went over that together and worked with her on Lesson One of the WEI course. We were surprised this week when we checked our mail and found a Bible that was sent to us from Charles Campbell. It is a very nice cross reference Bible in the English Standard Version. We will add it to our library here in Nikolaev and perhaps give it to some English student with the most promise of becoming a faithful servant of the Lord. We never have too many Bibles. Galina nearly always has a freshly made pot of borsch on the stove. I doctor it up to American standards with a dash of Tabasco which she frowns upon but graciously allows. Thank you for the many fervent prayers.