Monday Scripture: Esther 4
For Such a Time as This
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Don’t think that just because you live in the king’s house you will get out of this alive.
If you persist in staying silent at a time like this, help and deliverance will arrive from someplace else; but you and your family will be wiped out.
Who knows?
Maybe you were given your position in life for such a time as this.
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Esther was an unlikely hero.
She was a beauty queen--a vocation not noted for great accomplishments.
J.R.R. Tolkien also wrote of unlikely heroes facing dark times.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times.
But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
You may also be an unlikely hero.
You may wish this pandemic and social unrest were not for your time.
But who knows?
God may have put you here for such a time as this.
One thing is certain.
Deliverance will come.
I've read the end of the book, and I know the end of the story.
God's gonna win.
But that deliverance will not come from Congress or a syringe or a bottle of pills.
It will come from unlikely heroes, born for such a time as this.
That just might be why you are here.
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Oh Lord you don't have to move the mountain
But give me the strength to climb
And Lord, don't take away my stumbling blocks
But lead me all around
Lord I don't bother nobody
I try to treat everybody the same
But everytime, I turn my back
They scandalize my name
But oh Jesus
You don't have to move my mountain
But give me the strength to climb
And Lord don't take away my stumbling blocks
But lead me all around
Now when my folks would slay me
These things they will try to do
But Lord, don't touch 'em
But wiithin their heart
Make em give their life to you