NKJV 365 / Sacrifice for God's Will

NKJV 365 Day Reading Plan

Day 107 of 365 Sacrifice for God's Will When Mordecai sent Esther a copy of the king's decree to annihilate the Jews and urged Esther to intervene, with the king, she was initially fearful and reluctant. But Mordecai warned her that her own life and that of her family were in danger unless she acted, and that if she did not act, deliverance would come from another place (a veiled reference to God). He encouraged Esther to believe that God had providentially brought her to the court as His instrument to thwart the evil plot (v. 14). In spite of her natural fear, Esther decided to approach the king. The attitude displayed in her statement, "if I perish, I perish!" is not one of despair but of submission to the will of God. Self-denial is not an easy road even for the saints of God, who are subject to concern for self-preservation just as other mortals. The reminder that Esther's presence in the court was not accidental but of divine arrangement was the catalyst for her act of self-denial. Taken from The Devotional Daily Bible Esther 4:16 NASB 16 "Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish."