«Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?» (Esther 4:14, NLT).
THE EDICT ISSUED in Susa on the thirteenth day of the first month demanded the extermination of the Jewish people (see Esther 3:5-15) This caused deep consternation among them that affected Queen Esther herself, since she was Jewish. Like the true daughter of God that she was, she faced the crisis with a composure and disposition that constitute an example for us today. Far from starting to weep or scream, getting angry, despairing, or going impulsively to the king’s chamber (which would perhaps have cost her life), Esther sought God in prayer.
«Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!» (Esther 4:16). She gives us our first lesson: do not rush to seek solutions by yourself; go to God before you do anything.
Esther was ready to go into action, counting on God’s guidance on each one of her steps. She put on her royal robes and went before the king to ask for his presence at a banquet, thus giving us a second lesson: far from believing that as she had already fasted and prayed she could act without further delay, she was careful, kept her silence, and did not yet ask for anything. She first ensured she counted on the king’s approval.
There was a first banquet at which nothing happened, and a second, during which Esther explained her request: «If l have found favor with the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request, I ask that my life and the lives of my people will be spared. For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us» (Esther 7:3, 4, NLT). The story ends with success: God’s favor was with her. Third lesson: Esther did not trust in her physical beauty or in her feminine powers of persuasion, nor in human shrewdness; she acted with the wisdom she obtained in the presence of God.
That wisdom is also available to you. Ask God for it because . . . who knows if you were made for just such a time as this? Perhaps He wants to act through you today.
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Take From: Daily Devotions for Women’s 2020
«One Day at a Time»
From: Patricia Muñoz Bertozzi
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Magda Sanz T
