Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. A Divine Mission. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall their enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place. But thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed, and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther 414.
This great challenge to Queen Esther by her cousin Mordecai, urging her to be willing to risk her own life to save the lives of her people, embodies a timeless principle that has challenged many another man or woman of God in later times. One thinks of Paul, for example, who could testify that what things were gained to me, those I counted lost for Christ, Philippians 3.7, and whom, therefore, God used so greatly in the critical times of the early church. Then there were Wycliffe. Posts, Martin Luther, and many others in post-biblical times, who, like Paul, could say, Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus. Who is to say that the same principle does not apply, at least in some measure, to everyone?
Our role in history may not be as strategic and far-reaching as that of Queen Esther, but God does have a high calling in mind and a vital ministry of some sort for everyone. The great tragedy is that most people hold their peace when it comes to taking a vital and dangerous stand for God and His truth, and therefore enlargement and deliverance have to be raised up by Him from another place. May God help each of us, called as we are to some significant ministry, that we may best perform at such a time as this, and be able to say with Esther, if I perish, I perish. But also with Paul, I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, and I have kept the fate. 2 Timothy 4, 7.
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