Was reading this book by Kingsley Fletcher entitled 'The Power of Covenant' and was fascinated by a chapter which wrote about Queen Esther and how she responded to her covenant duties ... Let me share it with you.
Mordecai's reply is a timeless warning to every covenant keeper of God about the importance of obedience and accepting personal responsibility for the welfare of others. Esther's response to her covenant duty is what God expects to hear from each of us where His covenant is concerned :
Do you think that because you are in the the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this? Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai, "Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for 3 days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish."
It is clear that the birth of every single covenant keeper in the Old Testament was preordained by God for His divine purposes. Why should it be different for us? God is no respecter of persons and He brought us into this world for a divine purpose unique to us. The only way to live a fulfilled life in Christ is to live as a covenant keeper, as a person who understands that your life is not our own, for we have been bought with a price by blood covenant. We can approach each new day with a new perspective of God's purpose in our lives .....
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