For Such a Time as This

Posted by Lorren on August 6, 2010

I read the book of Esther yesterday. It’s a pretty small book. The challenges that Esther faced brought to my mind something that Glenn Beck quoted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Silence is an action. Doing nothing is doing something. Doing nothing and staying silent in the face of evil is allowing evil to perpetuate.

Esther was in a position to speak up when her people were threatened with genocide. Haman had chosen to do the right thing, no matter what (which I wrote about last night); he didn’t have a voice with the king, but he did have a voice with Esther.

It wasn’t easy for Esther to speak up. She faced death when she approached the king uninvited. When she accused Haman of trying to kill her people, she could have angered the king, and again faced danger. She did speak up, because it was the right thing to do.

We might not have the voice that Esther does. I don’t have a radio show; I don’t have influence. We might be more like Haman, who could convince Esther to talk to the king on their behalf. Whatever our role, we may face difficulties and danger. We need to do the right thing and speak up in whatever capacity we have been placed into. There are no coincidences. God has us here, for such a time as this, to face whatever difficulties that come our way, without compromising or wavering on God’s word.