Esther 4:14  – “For if you altogether remain silent this time, the relief and salvation shall arise to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed; who knows whether you have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 

As I read, prayed, and contemplated the Word of God today, something from the book of Esther captured my thoughts.  Esther was the Queen, and her ethnicity was unknown within the palace.    Mordecai had changed her name to Esther to hide her Jewish lineage.

Haman had convinced the king to let him have the Jews killed.   Mordecai called out to Esther for help, but she resisted, citing the kingdom’s protocol.   If she went to the king unsummoned, it could mean death. 

Mordecai grasped the gravity of the matter and said in Esther 4:14.  The thing that leaped out at me was in Mordecai’s words – “If you do nothing, God will use somebody else.”    Wow!    We sometimes forget we are not His only option.    Our participation will benefit the kingdom, but it will benefit us!   The incredibleness of God giving us the privilege of participating is amazing and humbling.

Esther’s response was, “Okay, fast and pray with me, and then if I perish, I perish.” 

Another reality gripped me.   Haman planned destruction for the Jews and, in particular, for Mordecai.   He built a gallows 50 cubits tall.   That was for show.   He was hanged on his own gallows.   The plans of evil against God’s people will come back to bite you.  The wicked will fall into their own pit.   Psalm 91 is our covenant promise.

There is a reward for obedience, and the weapons formed against us will turn on those devising plans against us if we walk in obedience.   That includes the devil.  He will suffer for his plans of evil.

Our life is not our own.   We have been purchased by Christ’s blood.  Therefore, even if we perish in the flesh, obedience has great reward!  We are kept! 

Embrace God’s call and enjoy His victory!  Today is your day to rise up in victory!  Embrace the Call.