"The Call # 7"

You Were Made for Such a Time...(Conscience)

Esther (Please read Esther Chapter 4)

"Don't imagine that you are safer than any other Jew just because you are in the royal palace...who knows--may be it was for a time like this that you were made queen!" How often have you heard or repeated phrases like, "life was so much simpler back then"; "there never used to be so much"; "I can remember when the streets were safer". The past often seems safer, quieter, more simple, etc. Too ofter we yearn to fall back into our comfort/safety zone. Yesterday is a closed door; we don't live there anymore. We were created for such a time as this! I remember a song from a few years ago entitled, "Do Something". The refrain is a plaintive cry to God: "Why don't you do something?" God's response is, "I did; I created you!" Get off the complaint train and onto the prayer train. Your call is: Put your hand to the plow and don't look back. Mt. 10:37-39 tells us: "Take up your cross and follow me..." When? Not yesterday or tomorrow, but today. Today, in such a time as this, PRAY! Mordecai prompted Esther into action and she moved (at the risk of her life) with the prayer cover of a nation (in repentance) dressed in sack cloth and ashes.

Questions:

1)    What is God prompting you to do? (pray for the unborn, for world peace...let your conscience guide you).

2)   We are told in Mt. 7:13-14, "Go in through the narrow gate...The way that leads to it is hard." Are you willing to follow Jesus on that path?