“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14
Our royalty as women of God is special, different, but if we remain silent when God tells us to do something, He will use someone else, and then you will miss out on your blessing, your testimony, your deliverance. Your deliverance may be the very thing that delivers your family. Your example of obedience might be the very thing your son or daughter needed to see…. For such a time as this!
We come to a very important part of the story of Esther.
“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go into the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.” Esther 4:16
She tells them to do several things:
1. Go!
2. Assemble all the Jews.
3. Fast for me.
4. I’m going to fast too.
5. As a result, I will go to the king.
Then she says the key to her destiny, “If I perish, I perish”. In this statement you don’t see faith, you see a determination to save her family name, her nation, and if she died doing it, so be it.
A lot of us put Esther on a pedestal, but if you really look at her reply to Mordecai, she said, “No” at first. She knew the consequences of going before the king uninvited. Instead of stepping out by faith, she gathered the people to fast with her. She did not immediately obey.
BUT, once she did obey and walk in her purpose look at the results (Chapter 5):
1. She obtained favor in his sight.
2. The king extended to Esther the golden scepter. If he hadn’t done this, they would kill her immediately because she appeared before the king uninvited.
3. He asked what her request was, and he would give her half of the kingdom if he had to.
4. He was ready to grant her whatever her petition was.
So, what are you going to do when God asks you to walk in your purpose or take up your cross?
“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” Matt. 16:24.
Your ‘cross’, that Jesus asked you to take up, is the place in your life where the will of God and your will cross. Where the two wills are in opposition to each other; same as Esther as her will was against the instruction of Mordecai, It’s the same with us. We, at some point in our lives will have to make the choice between our will or God’s. Has God been asking something of you lately? Have you obeyed?
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