Queen of Persia

Esther 4:14b, MSG: “Who knows? Maybe you were made queen for just such a time as this.”

Things happen for a reason and Esther (Hadassah) became queen for one – to stop genocide from happening during the reign of King Xerxes in Persia. Who would’ve imagined that an orphan like her would become queen and save her entire race? She was a nobody in the beginning, who was given this immense opportunity. She allowed God to use her and what she had for His glory and with this she merited to have one of the only two books in the Bible named after a woman named after her.

She feels so true to me because though her exact situation is not happening in my life at this moment, her circumstances resonates the things that are happening to me and probably a lot of women. She was faced with something big. She was in company of men, whose authority she had to submit to and yet also had to challenge in a way for the good of many. She was given blessings and she had to use them the way God wanted to.

Esther also taught me on what the response should be when faced with a difficult mission to take on, which was to heed to counsel of a more spiritually mature individual, fast and pray. She also reminded me that whatever you have (in her case, it’s her beauty), God can use that to show everyone that He is God and remind us of His love and faithfulness. She also showed me that God won’t allow us to face an obstacle without giving us the means to overcome it, the same way that He gave her courage.

So, when faced with something hard to tackle, I look back to Esther’s story and direct myself particularly to this verse and I am reminded that I should never assume that what happens in my life is merely a matter of chance or coincidence because God is at work, divinely orchestrating events to bring about His purposes in my life.

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