"King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew,...'Write another decree in the king's name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you'....Mordecai wrote in the name of King (President) Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king's signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king." (Esther 8:10, NIV)
The old Jew had triumphed. He was strong in the Lord His God. He stayed "in the fight." He was the driving force behind Esther's actions on behalf of their people.
Mordecai is an example to all of us. He was not passive in the face of impending disaster. He reminded Esther of her "calling." He would not bow to political pressure. He would not sell out principle to the "easy way out," which, in reality, would have ended in the destruction of the contemporary Jewry.
Okay, the "spiritual" among us will now say, "Well, it was all God." Yes, "all God"---------- in all of Mordecai. And when our Lord Jesus Christ has "all" of us, Jesus' power and purposes are fulfilled in us, His Church. Like it or not, religiously inclined, Jesus, "God with us," has for the most part in history worked through fallible mankind. Just consider Samson, David, the "weeping" Jeremiah, Peter, Paul, who said, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief." Yet look at what they all accomplished.
And then there is you and I. What will we do with our frailties, our weakness, limitations? One of the biggest mistakes made by those who do not follow Jesus and those who do, "follow the Lamb wherever He goes," in the current American situation is that too many are evaluating events and people by those same frailties, weaknesses, and limitations. Much impartation of, "the Words of God," much prayer in the Holy Spirit will give us all the insight necessary to navigate through these turbulent waters, the waters in which we will find ourselves unto the close of the age.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray that I will continue to walk in the example of, "just men made perfect."
The old Jew had triumphed. He was strong in the Lord His God. He stayed "in the fight." He was the driving force behind Esther's actions on behalf of their people.
Mordecai is an example to all of us. He was not passive in the face of impending disaster. He reminded Esther of her "calling." He would not bow to political pressure. He would not sell out principle to the "easy way out," which, in reality, would have ended in the destruction of the contemporary Jewry.
Okay, the "spiritual" among us will now say, "Well, it was all God." Yes, "all God"---------- in all of Mordecai. And when our Lord Jesus Christ has "all" of us, Jesus' power and purposes are fulfilled in us, His Church. Like it or not, religiously inclined, Jesus, "God with us," has for the most part in history worked through fallible mankind. Just consider Samson, David, the "weeping" Jeremiah, Peter, Paul, who said, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief." Yet look at what they all accomplished.
And then there is you and I. What will we do with our frailties, our weakness, limitations? One of the biggest mistakes made by those who do not follow Jesus and those who do, "follow the Lamb wherever He goes," in the current American situation is that too many are evaluating events and people by those same frailties, weaknesses, and limitations. Much impartation of, "the Words of God," much prayer in the Holy Spirit will give us all the insight necessary to navigate through these turbulent waters, the waters in which we will find ourselves unto the close of the age.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray that I will continue to walk in the example of, "just men made perfect."
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
