23/11/2022
Do you wonder why do you have the life that you have right now? The family, the job, the business, the workplace, the friends, the colleagues, the classmates and even the enemies? May be you were born in such a timeand a place God has pre-ordained in your life.
Like Esther in this verse today, you were born for a purpose. You are exactly where you should be right now. You are exactly in the place God wants you to be. You are exactly in the circumstance that God needs you to be.
"Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?"
โ Esther 4:14 NLT
Esther was a beautiful young woman who was raised by her cousin and adoptive father Mordecai among the Jewish exiles living in the Fortress of Susa. She had been taken from Mordecai's home and placed in the harem of King Xerxes. The king loved Esther more than the other women and made her his queen. When Mordecai heard about the plot to destroy the Jews by Haman, the most powerful noble in the land, He implored Esther to petition the king for help. His words are the words of our verse for today.
As Christians, we believe that God leads us and guides us. Indeed, we pray that God would lead us and guide us. Further, we believe that we should wait for the leading and guidance of God. Instead of following the dictates of our sinful selves, we believe we should wait for God to show us the way. Further yet, we believe that God has ways of making His leading and guidance known to us. He gives us an inner witness of the Spirit, or an inspired thought, or a dream, or any number of other kinds of indication.
Although we believe God shows us the way, it doesn't follow that we have a perfect understanding of where He's taking us and why. When David contemplated the hand of God guiding him, when he saw that God had hemmed him in "behind and before," he declared that such "knowledge was too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain" (Psalm 139:5-6). It is true that God gives us glimpses of where He's taking us from time to time, but at bottom such knowledge is beyond human comprehension. We don't follow God because we've seen and pre-approved His direction for our lives, but because we trust Him.
But then the moment arrives when it all makes sense, when the goal becomes clear. Surely Esther did not want to become a harem girl, surely she did not know why she became queen, but the moment came when God's purpose was revealed. Mordecai's words of our verse are rhetorical. Clearly, obviously, God had brought her to this point in time so she could help her people. Although God did not previously reveal His purpose, He was speaking forcefully now through the circumstances of life and Mordecai knew exactly what Esther had to do.
Esther's God is your God too. He's been leading and guiding you to your "such a time as this" moments as well.
ยฉ๏ธ Bible Hub Devotions