- 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 – There is a deeper reason why you are in this season and why you are in this place you find yourself in. Deeper than the superficial and deeper than just the physical. God is working His master plan out and inviting us into it. Our purpose then is to see how we can be leaning into His plan where we are today and in the season we’re in today. It’s more than just getting through another day and taking care of things. God is moving today, move with Him. That’s your bigger purpose for your life today. To get to know God more and help those you can know about His love. So how can you today in the season you’re in and in the place you’re at with the things you have fulfill that purpose? Who knows, maybe you were placed there with this purpose with what you have for such a time as this. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 913
- When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. 5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was. Esther 4:4-5 – The king’s decree to destroy all the Jews had gone out to all his lands and Mordecai is mourning this news, just like the Jewish people all over the kingdom were. He had positioned himself at the king’s gate in sackcloth, an outward way for them of showing their inward brokenness. When Esther hears of this, she seeks to have Mordecai put on new clothes so he could approach her and share what was wrong, for we learn that no one in sackcloth could enter the king’s gate. Yet even after he refuses, she persists in seeking out what was issue. We too may have to persist when we see someone hurting to discover what is happening in their story. They may not want to talk, they may not want to approach us, and they may not even want to “feel better” at that moment. Yet what they still need is community and love being shown to them. Be willing to remain with them even if they push back and seek to push you away in their pain. While they may not be demonstrating it nor even realizing it themselves at that moment, they need you. We’re designed to need one another and to have each other in the struggle. Be present for them, help how God leads you, and remember your ultimate role in their struggle is to simply refocus their eyes on their Savior. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2520
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