DISCUSSION
Have you ever been at that point in your life
when every force in the universe seems to be going against you? It may be that
you can’t catch up on your bills, your marriage is in shambles, you are hearing
rumors of lay-offs at work, you are having to sit and care for your parents,
your car needs a new engine, the doctor told you that it may be cancer and, oh
yeah, someone ran over your dog this morning. If this describes you, then I am
so sorry and I will be praying for you! We have to remember that just when we
think things are bad and they can’t get any worse, they usually do. However, I
do have some good news for you today. Are you paying attention because this is
very important? God has placed you right where you are, so that He can do
something amazing through you! Isn’t that awesome! God is going to use you
right where you are in the midst of all of your problems. Don’t believe me?
Watch this…In the book of Esther, King Ahasuerus has selected Esther to be his
queen. Who wouldn’t want Esther as their queen? The Bible says she “had a
beautiful figure and was lovely to look at” (Esther 2.7). While she is queen,
Haman is plotting to get Ahasuerus to destroy all the Jews. There is just one
problem, Esther is a Jew, but neither the King nor Haman knows it. When this
plot is uncovered by Esther and her cousin Mordecai, she is afraid and doesn’t
know what to do. You think you have it bad? If she squeals, she could die along
with the entire Jewish nation. If she remains silent, she might live, yet would
have to live with the fact that the entire nation was slaughtered and she did
nothing. Mordecai offers her this piece of advice: “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. 14). Maybe, just
maybe, she became the queen for this very reason- to allow God to use her and
do something wonderful. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but she does and He
does and great things are done! Maybe you have fallen on some tough times, and
maybe it is worse than it has ever been before, but maybe, just maybe, you are
in the position so that God can use you to do something wonderful! Don’t give
up just yet; just give in to His will and allow Him to work through you!
PRAYER
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