Esther 4:14
"For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
There was an order
agreed by the king that all of the Jewish people would be killed. Mordecai was working to change the law and
had asked his niece, Esther to help them. Esther was a Jew but she had hidden that from her new husband, the king. Her position as the queen gave her favor in his eyes, so her uncle asked Esther for her help to petition to the king for their people. They had to be secretive, but ultimately they realized, it was now or never
for Esther to speak up to the king to save the Jewish people. She prayed and accepted the
responsibility. The king listened to her
plea and not only did he nullify his original order, but he told the Jews that they had his permission to protect themselves against any and all adversaries.
Esther was a bold woman of God in a time of persecution. It took well over a year for her just to be chosen as the queen, but it all came together perfectly. She could have easily kept quiet, but she stepped up boldly, and respectively, and her actions ended up saving thousands of people.
Everyone has a purpose. What will YOU do with, "such a time as this?"
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