Today, I am reading and commenting on  Esther 4-7.

When Mordecai asked Esther to appeal to the king on behalf of the Jewish people, she expressed the danger to herself for doing so.  Mordecai points out that she is at risk anyway.  Esther then asks Mordecai to have all of the Jews of the city fast for three days, at the end of which she will approach the king.  Mordecai’s message to Esther contains an important lesson for us.  If we are in a position to act to protect God’s people from harm, if we refuse to take that action out of fear for ourselves, our position of privilege will not protect us.  In fact, God has probably given us that position of privilege in order to act on behalf of His people.  However, there is more to this passage, there is also Esther’s response to that message from Mordecai, “If I perish, I perish.”  Once she heard Mordecai’s message, she knew he was right.  She was in a position of privilege and luxury, God had put her in that position in order to do something.  That did not mean that God would protect her from the risk of taking action, but it did mean that she needed to accept that risk.  In the same way, each one of us must be willing to accept the risk which comes from doing God’s will.  Each of us is where we are in life in order to do something for God.  That something involves taking risks.  We need to be willing to take those risks.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.