I shared this with the tech team this past Sunday and I figured I’d post this up here. I just wanted to share a bite of something that punched me in the face lately and it’s from Esther 4:14
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?
In highschool we had a mission trip that centered around the theme “For Such A Time” and there was a song (I think Steve Green wrote it “For Such A Time As This”). The statement is a cliche Christian term thrown around. These things are happening, you’re stuck in the middle, “for such a time” bill “for such a time”.
Those few words really have no meaning in and of themselves until you get into the book of Esther and contextualize it. The Jews were up on the block to be slaughtered by their enemies because the King’s right hand man had a vendetta against the Jewish people. What the guy didn’t know is that Esther, the queen was a Jew. Esther’s uncle Mordecai came to her and said you need to do something about this or else God is going to find another way to get our people out of this. It’s very possible Esther that the very reason you became queen was to save the nation of Israel.
If we started living like every moment we were placed there for the purpose of God, how different would we start living? so yes, “for such a time as this” but more to it, “for such a time as this God has a purpose for our being and we can choose to live that purpose or he will raise up someone else”
Even the rocks cry out his majesty.
