Why are you positioned where you are? Why do you work where you work? Why do you live where you live? Why do you go to school where you did? Why do you go to church where you do? You do what you do because God assigned you there and here – for such a time as this.
Every now and then, we find ourselves at a moment in time that be called a “pivot point” in history. In sports they call it the time for a big play – the time when the game is on the line. In the military, it’s “D -Day” the battle that win win or lose the war. In business, it’s the sale that will put you over the top and into the black for the fiscal year.
When I think of what’s happening in our culture right now and consider that we are standing tiptoe on the edge of major change. I believe that we are at a strategic moment in time.
Have you ever thought to yourself “ Why – why am I even here?” Like is so difficult and there is such chaos in the world.
I often think of the challenge Esther was put in. It may very well be the challenge that God has you us at this point in our life’s. “Who knows maybe you have come to your position for such as a time as this? In other words, God had placed you where you are, not just to enjoy the benefits of life, but to build His Kingdom, to help His people, to fulfill His purposes.
God has created you for a divine appointment – a unique role to fulfill in your life- just like Esther. There is something you can do for God that no one else can do – a God given niche only you can fill. You may be the key player In God’s plan. I hope you’ll start to think of the man or woman in the mirror. Of all His millions of children you are the one God had positioned to rescue the people around you.
Just like that Jewish girl placed in a strategic spot, you’ve been placed where you are “for such a time as this.”
Today we aren’t living with the threat of physical death. But people are in distress. Many people are being destroyed for lack of knowledge.
People are dying for the truth. That’s why we are here, to bring life where there is death.
We see the threat of death to family.
We see the threat of death to morality.
We see the threat of death to eternity.
Wherever there are people of God there are enemies of God.
You are where you are for such a time as this because people are in distress.
If you’ve ever experienced brokenness in your life – if you think you’ve been dealt a tough hand, there is a beautiful lesson here for you. If you’ve been crushed by life – if you have a troubled past that is fractured, the you can learn some unforgettable truth from the account of Esther.
Here was a little girl who must have cried here heart out longing for her mom and dad. Years later, though, she would become the key to the very survival of her people. She was God’s person. God used her. And He can do the same for you.
Mordecai learned of the plan to kill all the Jews. He wrote a letter warning Esther. But Esther wrote back so say that she was powerless to stop the killing. Het excuse was that the law stated no one could enter the King’s chambers uninvited- even the Queen. Esther had not seen the King for along time. She may have wondered if she had fallen out of favor with him. To enter the throne room uninvited was to literally invite death, in essence m Esther was telling Mordecai, “I can’t do what God wants. I don’t want to break the law and be killed by the King.”
Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: All the king’s servants, and the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come into the king these thirty days. They told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
Esther 4:10-12
Esther didn’t feel she was the person for God’s job.
Mordecai send a message back to her insisting that her Jewish blood would be discover and she too would surely die. Esther as a condemned Jew or as a queen ho violated the King’s law, Esther and her people were doomed unless she acted.
Then Mordecai told then to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the kings palace can escape and more than all the Jews, For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?
Esther 4:13-14
This had to go down as one of the most incredible pivot points of history. “Mordecai says, “If you do nothing don’t think you will escape death. You’ll be found out as a Jew and you will die. God’s hands aren’t tied. He will use someone else to save His people. But think how great it would be for you. Could it be that this explains why you were chosen to be queen, my dear Esther – for such a time as this – for this very moment.
The Lord sees as not as man sees, man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. What does He desire to see in your heart and in mine?
From Pity to Praise 