for such a time as this (esther 4-5)

Today we look at a very famous passage in Esther.

The first thing you will notice Mordecai and Esther have to communicate through a messenger because Mordecai is mourning the edict of Haman and you are not allowed in the palace if you are sad.  Isn't it great that God doesn't have this rule.  Plus,  Mordecai is fasting which is the closest reference to something religious in the book of Esther.

At first,  Esther is afraid to go to the king because anyone who approaches the king unannounced would be killed even the queen.  Mordecai shows great faith in saying

¹³Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not imagine that you in the king's palace can escape any more than all the Jews.    ¹⁴"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?"

He shows great faith by saying deliverence will come.  Some of us should think maybe we have attained wealth or knowledge for such a time as this.

In Esther 5, After the Jews fast for three days, Esther goes before Xerxes, who accept her and does not kill her, and asks him and Haman to dinner.  Haman is super happy until Mordecai refuses to rise in his presence and Haman's wife advises him to build gallows to hang Mordecai.