For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” (Esher 4:14)
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
She was a beautiful girl, taken into the king’s home,
granted honors not available to anyone else. As we read Mordecai’s warning to
her, we can readily see how she was born for such a time as that. But what about me? You know, the one
who
Never quite lived up to the news clippings
Is 90 lbs. overweight, or 20 lbs. underweight
Didn’t win the awards
Can’t be called a beauty by any one’s standards
Doesn’t have the king, the president, or anyone powerful
on speed dial.
Is called “Karen”
the moment she opens her mouth
Feel free to add to the list of the nothing-ness and
nobody-ness of most of our lives. We are tempted to shrug away any thought that
God might have created us for such a time as this, that, or any. But look again
at Esther. God created her, in effect, to be a wife who throws two dinner
parties. In fact, they are two dinner parties for three people. And they’re
even the same three people. The only reason there had to be two parties is
that she lost her nerve the first time.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the world of Esther. I
doubt I’d have had the courage. But sometimes, we blow these events up. There’s
another story that centers on a man who maintains a prayer discipline. And what
about the guy whose place in history is cemented because he was sitting in
prison? Or the guy who is famous for how much he suffered?
As we face the challenge of our difficult – or our
boring – circumstances, we might do well to wonder now and again if just maybe
we have come into our lives “for such a time as this.” And that thing we're afraid to do is the blessing we're withholding from others.
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