…for such a time as this.
I was reading Mordecai’s instruction to Queen Esther when the plot had been made to annihilate the Jewish people:
“Do not think in your heart that you will escape in this king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise … 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?” (Esther 4:13-14)
Catch that – “…who knows whether you have come …for such a time as this.”
God sometimes puts specific people in a position to be used to accomplish His will. Esther had become a queen, so she was able to boldly act to save people from an annihilation plotted by an evil man.
I believe our nation is in deep trouble today. I sense we are being sold out in a plot that opposes God and promotes all kinds of sin through a man focused political ideology that seeks to make us submit to human government instead of our Creator God.
This may be God’s judgement on us because we have sinned against God in so many ways. We have opposed God through promotion of all manner of perverted sexual sin and perversion of spiritual truth by denial of Jesus as the Son of God.
Fear of God and dependence on Him is the only solution to man’s true problem. We will never fix man and his actual problem with any political solution.
We are told in Ezekiel 33 that when we see danger approaching there is the necessity to sound a Warning Trumpet.
What we really need is a spiritual awakening in which people recognize the reality of WHO Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be and is. He lived up to His claims and then confirmed His identity as God in human form by His resurrection.
I (like Esther in the passage above) cannot be silent. Perhaps God wants me to say what is on my heart for such a time as this.
I am led to ask if you and I (if you are also a Christ follower) are positioned by God to act — “for such a time as this.” May we be bold and obedient.
I hope for many to be drawn to faith and for all believers to point others to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Please join me in praying what Christ taught us to pray in the Lord’s Prayer: “…deliver us from evil.”
That’s my trumpet blast for today.
Pat Pearce
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