Our Connect Group from church wrapped up our study of the book of Esther last night. Esther grew up Jewish, but her heritage was not known in the Persia where she was living. Due to her physical beauty, she was selected by King Xerxes as his queen. One of Xerxes' lieutenants, Haman, came up with a plan to annihilate all of the Jews in the area and was able to get the king's approval for the plan. Esther's uncle, Mordecai, was also living undercover as a Jew and learned of Haman's plan to kill the Jews. Mordecai admonished Esther to use her influence as queen to get Xerxes to reconsider the plan, but in doing so her Jewish heritage would be revealed, which could lead to her own death. In his closing to his argument Mordecai states, "And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this." Esther is obedient and the Jews are spared. Haman's fate was not as good. He was impaled on the stake that he had built and intended for Mordecai.
We will have mountain top moments in our life and our faith when it seems like there is nothing that can separate us from the light of God. We will also have times when we feel that we are in the deepest of valleys, and that there is no hope of being delivered from the darkness that surrounds us. Esther teaches us that it is in those moments when we need to depend on God's faithfulness for the strength to deliver us from the pain we are in. Who knows that we might be in that position for such a time as this. I found this worship song that does a beautiful job of describing this.
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