Defining moments. These are moments that are locked into our brains that we will never forget. It may be the day/moment that we realized that that was the person we wanted to spend the rest of our lives with. It may be a trial or challenge that we learned a valuable truth that we have applied to our lives. Defining moments.
Esther was having one of those moments. From a poor young foreign girl to a queen is staggering. This was going to be a defining moment for her. Not just being queen but why she was made queen.
In the book of Daniel, God communicates that He establishes kings and removes kings. Or even queens for that matter. God strategically puts people in places to use to reveal His glory. The thing to remember though is they may be in a position to reveal God's glory, but they still have to decide on fully surrendering or not.
God put Esther in a position of influence and her defining moment is about to happen. She had just heard from her uncle about their sorrow and he pleads with her to do something about it. What will she do? How will she respond to her uncle?
Read about it in Esther 4:9-17 or click to view http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther%204:9-17&version=NIV (Click on back arrow on web browser to return)
If I perish, I perish. Those are powerful words. Those are words of surrender. Those are words that speak, "I will do what I can and whatever happens, happens. It will be in God's hands then." And that is exactly what happens when we fully surrender. Our lives along with the situation become God's matter. It's in God's hands and He will do with it what He wants.
The point: the cost to oneself doesn't determine the outcome of fully surrendering to God. If we allow the possibilities to dictate, we will never fully surrender. If it costs us our lives, so be it. If it doesn't, so be it. I will do something because God wants to show His glory through me.
How far are you willing to fully surrender? Only if He doesn't make me look foolish. Only if He doesn't make me move away from my home. Only if He doesn't let anything bad happen to me. Only, only, only.
I hope that we take all those only's and flush them down the drain. He is King of a Kingdom that will never end. He decides what needs to happen and who He will show His glory through. He know's your only's. But are your only's holding Him back from showing His glory through you?
You will see God's glory in a wonderful way when you fully surrender to Him. What do you choose?
As you close: Tell God right now that you fully surrender to Him. You don't care what happens to your body, your home, or material possessions. Tell Him that your life is in His hands and you couldn't be in any better hands than His.
God bless!
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