TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN

TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN

Friday, February 3, 2023

Ordinary if you know God.

 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.  Esther 4:1 (ESV)

Queen Esther was anxious because she was planning to risk her life on behalf of her people. Fear of death, pain, suffering, humiliation, and the unknown is a crucial element of anxiety.
"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come into the king these thirty days."

And they told Mordecai what Esther had said. Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your Father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
Esther 4:11-14 (ESV)

Trusting the Lord to deliver the righteous is not extraordinary; it is ordinary if you know God. If Esther looked at the protocol and thought about others who broke with expectations with this king, she would be worried.

Mordecai saw the problem and God's provision in the placement of Esther. Stability and peace were dependent upon Esther using her position to run into rather than away from the pain.
Sadly, some people wanted to kill all the Jews, yet sadness is different than anxiety. The consequences of sin will always bring sadness, yet those who focus on Christ and His power, plan, and provision will be at rest.

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