For Such A Time As This

     With the Independence Day celebrations this month, do we really think of the birth of our country and what the celebration really means, or do we just cook out and do our normal ritual?

     Lately, The Lord has been working me over in my spiritual thinking. With the concern for family and friends, the loss of special people in my life and the turning away from Godly morals and principals I see our country taking, I am reminded of the verse in Esther 54:13, 14 ¹³Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
¹⁴For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

     When Haman talked King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) into killing all the Jews in the land, Esther, who was a Jew but had not told her husband the king, was afraid to speak up. Her uncle Mordecai pleaded with her to speak to the king, to intercede on their behalf. But she was afraid.

     He told her to stop thinking about herself, this was bigger than she, and asked what if God placed her there at this time and in this place for this very reason? Can’t we ask this of ourselves in our Christian walk?

     Many people have come and gone in my life; many things have occurred to shape and form me into what I am today. God decided when I was to be born, and when I am to die, and so with you. Has he placed YOU in this time and space to make a difference according to His will? Are you to stand up and intercede in something? Are you His next Esther?