Day 36 of 90: Esther

Esther 4:13-14  “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 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?” 

I love this passage. Well, I love the entire story of Esther. What's not to love? You have a queen kicked out of the palace, a new queen who is just a commoner, a murder plot, an ethnic cleansing plot, and a woman who saves her people. It's wonderful.
I try to imagine what Esther must have felt. What an awesome responsibility on her. She could have been killed for her actions. And yet, as Mordecai said, she would not have escaped anyway. Her duty was to protect her people, no matter what.

But the thing that stands out the most is when Mordecai says, "For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place". Isn't that true all the time, even now? God's plan will still come about, no matter what we do. He was never going to allow the Jews to be wiped out. Esther didn't have to be the one to step into the role that she did. God would have put someone else there had she chosen to not to act. But think about how wonderful her reward will be. She fulfilled the role God had set aside for her. He put her in such a place as He did to do what she did. And she stepped up.

I hope I can step up when He calls me. Even when it's hard, even when it seems impossible. I want to do what God has called me to do no matter what.