More Than A Mundane Existence

“For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise
for the Jews from elsewhere, but you and your father’s house will perish.
And who knows but that you have come to the kingdom
for such a time as this and for this very occasion?”

– Esther 4:14 (Amplified Bible, Classic Edition)

God always asks us to elevate our perspective by diving full-heartedly into this relationship with Jesus Christ, the basis and the crux of our faith. As we get to better know His voice, heart, and mind, and as we accept His free gift of the Holy Spirit, a heart made of flesh, and the mind of Christ, we can move in alignment with God’s Spirit and do His perfect will on Earth.

Looking at the book of Esther in the Bible, we see a narrative of redemption of a woman who was overlooked and abandoned early on in her life. Esther, a Jewish woman originally named Hadassah, was living in the Persian Kingdom of that time, where her people, the Jews, were living as an exiled minority group in a godless nation. Her status as both an orphan, a woman, and a Jew during that time period meant that her markers of identity made her have the status of being an undesirable woman, forced to hide a part of herself to fit the society she didn’t choose to be born into, but God ordained her to be there.

Esther’s status of exile to her new status of royalty reflects the journey we take from being orphaned outside of Jesus, to becoming a daughter/ son of the King and dressed in His righteousness.

were treated as if God is not a respector of persons, but a respector of calling and purpose that He has created and destined every individual to be a part of bringing Heaven to Earth.