This Is My Esther Moment

Just now, in her post, I read the words: “This is our Esther moment.”

“For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14)

I can’t see what God may be doing in each circumstance I encounter. I’m often tempted to choose the easy way out instead of walking the hard road of obedience – kindness, sacrifice, patience, and selflessness.

Esther chose to risk her life. She defied fear and walked into the presence of the most powerful person she knew, because God had sent her for that very purpose.

I don’t want to miss my moments. I don’t want fear to stop me from obedience, from laying my life down for others. I am called to die to myself daily.

And who knows if I have not been called for such a time as this?

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