As we begin a new year may we be on
the look out for what God has in store for us.
I have had taken several days away from our blog to rest and reflect on 2009. I feel led at this time to continue blogging in 2010 as part of my devotion. I thank all who have shared in this time of study and thinking about God's word. To all my Selah members and friends I prayerfully look forward to what God has planned for us in 2010.
Today's Scripture:
If you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther was a beautiful woman - inside and out. So it wasn't a suprise when she was chosen to be the queen. She seemed to enjoy this position-until one day she learned that the king's adviser planned to annihilate all the Jewish people. The thought that your husband is destroying a whole race is shocking enough. But for Esther, it had an extra traumatic twist. The king and his advisor didn't know she was Jewish.
Esther could have been concerned only about saving her own neck. But her uncle pointed out the fact perhaps God had put her in a position of power to be his tool for rescuing his people, that God might have put her in the palace "for such a time as this."
Esther's reaction reveals that she was wise as well as beautiful. Instead of panicking, she prayed. She gathered other Jewish people to fast and pray. She engaged every bit of the femininity and brains God had given her, and God used her to save her people. She truly was in the right place at the right time for a reason.
Selah people' and friends just as he had a place and a purpose for Esther, God has a place and a purpose for you and I. You are a part of His divine design. You may be involved in a certain school or organization, not by chance, but for some reason that only God knows about at this point. You might have formed a new acquaintance for a reason you know nothing about.
"Keep serving God and looking for his guidance. He will keep you in the right place at the right time and use you to make a difference. What looks like normal circumstances to you may actually be divine appointments."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston
Selah Christian Church
Four Oaks, NC
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