*🙏The Word Daily Devotion 🙏*
(Global Evangelical Church)
*📖PLACED WHERE YOU ARE FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS*
👉(Reading: Esther 4: 12-17)
🗓Friday, August 14
📜Mordecai sent back this reply to Esther…’If you keep quite at a time like this deliverance for the Jews will arise from some other place…who can say but that you have been elevated to the palace for just such a time as this? *Esther 4:13-14 (NLT)*
📋Esther was a beautiful Jewish girl who rose from obscurity to prominence, by being married to Xerxers, king of Persia. However, danger arose against the Jews from Haman. Mordecai, Esther’s cousin who had already proven his loyalty to the king, refused to ‘worship’ Haman as the king had decreed. Consequently, Mordecai and his countrymen must die! (3:8-11). Mordecai sent a message to Esther, warning that she would not escape Haman’s plot just because she is queen. After the decree to kill the Jews was given, Mordecai and Esther did not despair or just wait for God’s intervention. Esther requested her countrymen’s support in prayer and fasting. She then risked her life by coming before the king without an appointment, which could have meant swift death (4:11, 16, 5:2). Mordecai and Esther saw that God had placed them in their positions for a purpose, so they seized the moment and acted. When it is within your reach to save or help others, you must do so and not behave selfishly or just wait for God to fix everything. Instead, ask God for direction and act! God may have placed you where you are “for such a time as this”
_*🛐Meditation And Prayer:*_ Lord, thank you for where you have placed me. Enable me to be of help to others.
_*📚Further Reading:*_ Esther 3:8 - 5:5
_*🔑Key Lesson:*_ God placed you where you are for a purpose.
_*◼The Bible in one year:*_ Jeremiah 37-39
