Esther's story, chapter 4

Alright, time for the continuation of Esther's story.

 

 When Mordecai discovers the new law, he is very understandably upset. He begins mourning, going through the city in his rent clothes with ashes in his head (that was the custom when you were in mourning).

 

He even went to the king's gates, but no one was allowed past that if they were in mourning.

 

When Esther heard he was mourning, she tried to send him out some decent clothes and get him cleaned up, but he refused.

 

Instead, he sent her a copy of the letter containing the new law.

 

Up until this point, Esther had not heard about the law.

 

Mordecai asks Esther to go to the king on behalf of her people.

 

Esther know that it is against the law to go to see the king unless he summoned her, and if she did go, she would be killed unless he held out his golden scepter to her.

 

Esther had not seen her husband in 30 days.

 

She tells Mordecai that she doesn't want to try and go see the king, she is afraid of being killed.

 

Mordecai then replies to her, "Don't think that you will escape when the Jews are being killed because you stay silent. God will send someone else to deliver his people, but if you do not speak up, you and your father's house will be killed. Perhaps you were put here for such a time as this."

 

  

 

So Esther asks Mordecai to get the all the Jews in Shushan to pray and fast for her and the difficult thing that she knows must be done.

 

She must go to the king.

 

So, that is the end of what happens in chapter 4.

 

Esther really was a very brave women. She could have just said no, she wouldn't ask and she would have probably lived the rest of her life in the palace.

 

Or maybe she would have been killed when they discovered she was a Jew. Secrets have a way of coming to the light.

 

But either way, she would have lived the rest of her life, however long or short it may be, in the comfort of the king's palace.

 

But instead she decided to listen to Mordecai and put her life in direct danger by going to the king and begging for the lives of thousands of her fellow Jews.

 

She was willing to put her life on the line to follow God's plan.

 

I hope that one day, if the need ever arises, I am able to do the same.

 

Because who knows? Perhaps I was put on earth for such a time as this.

 

Will I be prepared to give everything if God placed me in life to die for others?

 

I hope so.

 

Will you?

 

Cheers!