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A Message from Kat
RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE as I started to write this Bible study.
Throughout the invasion, I vacillated between feeling helpless and distraught.
Helpless because life felt so fragile and subject to evil’s whims. And distraught
because the images of Ukrainian children, stumbling across the border to Poland,
broke my heart. The sounds of toddlers crying for their daddies and whimpering
after a long, harrowing journey was too much for me to bear.
The day before the invasion I was looking up every use of the words stone
and rock in the Bible, and the next day the whole world seemed unprotected,
vulnerable, and defenseless. It felt as if the ground beneath my feet were sinking
sand, catastrophically damaged, irreparable.
What I needed most during that season of life was to remember that God
is faithful. His character is solid as a rock, and I can build my life on the sure
foundation of Jesus—who never cracks under pressure. I needed the God
described by the psalmists: a stronghold, a refuge, the rock of my salvation, and
the rock of my protection.
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