“Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Esther 4:14

Queen Ester, who was Jewish, not Persian, was providentially made the queen of Persia. Sadly there isn’t space to retell that interesting story found in the first three chapters of Esther. But in the providence of God she was strategically placed to make the difference between the life or death of all the Jews in Persia. It was risky for her to speak up, not only because she would have been killed herself, but her husband, the king, didn’t even know she was Jewish!

Esther’s uncle, Mordacai urged her to take that risk, saying, “who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” She spoke up and the Jewish people were spared!

What has this to do with you and me? We are probably never going to save a race of people from annihilation, but God has providentially placed each of us in every one of the relationships we have with others. Many with whom we have contact do not know Christ. It is scary to speak up sometimes, but if we do not, who knows what will happen to those God has placed in our lives?