On the second day of the war, we in our community received a simple word from God: 1 Timothy chapter 5 verse 8.
But God turned this Word upside down. We realized that God only requires of us what He Himself does first:
“But if anyone does not take care of His own, and especially for those of His household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever” (1 Timothy 5:8).
Here we are not talking about such care, which includes bustling, anxieties and worries. On the contrary, here we are talking about perfect protection and care in everything, which just excludes fear, anxiety, bad bustling, vanity, godless fears. And we realized that it is God who opens His heart to us: God first of all cares about His household – about His children, about those who are close to Him. And this does not mean that He does not love unbelievers or that He does not love those who have not yet known Him. He just has His family on earth.
Suddenly it became so real for us that we began to say, to proclaim that nothing would happen to all of God’s children in our communities, not only in Kyiv, because we are under God’s very special unique protection. What about God’s children in other churches and communities? Of course, the same applies to them. But in order to realize what God gives to all His children, you need to believe in it, you need to trust God. And those who trust, who believe the Word of God, they’re bound to be under God’s protection.
Does this mean that God absolutely protects His children, no matter what they do? Of course not. We must not tempt God. We shouldn’t jump in front of the bullets. But if we do not tempt God and at the same time we are where God sees us and simply and calmly do what we are called to do for this time (the next time it may be something else), we are under God’s perfect protection.
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