Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34 NIV)Итак не заботьтесь о завтрашнем дне, ибо завтрашний [сам] будет заботиться о своем: довольно для [каждого] дня своей заботы. (От Матфея 6:34 Russian)
Отож, не журіться про завтрашній день, бо завтра за себе само поклопочеться. Кожний день має досить своєї турботи! (Матей 6:34 Ukrainian)Así que, no os congojéis por el día de mañana; que el día de mañana traerá su fatiga: basta al día su afán. (Mateo 6:34 Spanish)
Almighty God, Who commands and the winds obey your voice. We are your creatures and are not able to comprehend the great mysteries of our own earth and the universe. Give us wisdom and we consider the great destructive forces that are being unleashed around the world. Help us to concentrate each day for doing good deeds that will show our faith in the love of Christ. Help us to be calm as we walk by faith in our Lord who will bring all the faithful home to a perfect place where no storm clouds darken the sky. In Jesus name we pray, Amen. Yesterday was another long day of activities dealing with our upcoming World English Institute campaign in June. We learned only today that the group which was planning to come in July has backed out. That is a disappointment for us since all our advertisements have already hit the streets of Nikolaev with June and July. God is great and good, and we will just encourage anyone who wanted to study in July to study with the teachers coming in June. Participating in such a campaign like this to spread the beautiful seeds of the gospel of Christ is always full of complications. It is much like going on a campaign during a war in regard to all the mental, physical and family preparations. One young man who is studying Bible at a university recently asked for my advice on being a missionary when he graduates. My answer was the advice I received some decades ago, "Don't be a preacher or missionary unless you have to." My answer was I have to. This young man's honest answer was, I don't have to do that. Nevertheless, there is so much work to do in the kingdom of God's dear Son without being a missionary or preacher or both. Every Christian is a valuable worker for the Lord and should sing with enthusiasm the old hymn, "I want to be a worker for the Lord." After a couple of meetings with our advertising folks yesterday, we were able to finalize (pay) our arrangements. We will have our new large sign out in front of the church meeting place in a few days, and there are already flyers being posted around the city advertising the church's regular activities as well as flyers promoting our WEI gospel campaign. Last night at 09.00 at our Wednesday night Bible study, Pavel led us in a good study about what happens when we die. It was a difficult assignment that is part of what I've been giving him to teach so that he will grow in his studies of the word and delivering faithful lessons. After we rode home with Zhenya and discussed her desire to return to active duty in the church, we threw everything together and caught a bus that left Nikolaev at 10.25 last night and arrived in Donetsk at 10.15 this morning. Then, we waited about an hour for a bus to Slavyansk that took two and half hours. Finally we arrived to the home of Galina's Mama. She is not feeling well possibly since it has now been a year since her beloved Misha passed away. We plan to take her to the cemetery and decorate the grave. I need to be back in Nikolaev Sunday morning, so I'll have another overnight bus ride. Galina may stay on here for a few more days to help her mother. She really appreciated us coming and knows how hard it is traveling in Ukraine, since she used to have to travel in her work as an economic engineer during the Soviet days. Many people have modern cars in Ukraine and zip around the country on very bad roads that have pot-holes in every mile it seems. Like other people here and I'm certain more so in the USA, people are talking about the powerful storms that rolled with their powerful destructive force across Alabama, Georgia and I'm not sure where else. We are in prayer for our family, church family and many friends in Alabama and Georgia. If there is such a thing as a "tornado alley" in Alabama & Georgia, it seems to my recollection that many powerful storms have come across that same general area. We are waiting more news as we pray fervently for the survivors who must pick up the pieces and move on with their lives. Thank you for the prayers as we pray for you.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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