BBD 01.16.09 Fulfilling Your Purpose
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01.16.09
Fulfilling Your Purpose
Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai: "All the
king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or
woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he
has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out
the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to
go in to the king these thirty days." So they told Mordecai Esther's words.
And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that
you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. For
if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will
arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will
perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time
as this?" - Esther 4:10-14.
Esther had won the royal beauty contest and had become the queen taking the
place of Queen Vashti who had fallen into disfavor with King Ahasuerus. God's
purpose for Esther's life was not just for her to be a queen. No, the evil
Haman hated the Jews and especially Mordecai. Haman hatched a plan to cause
the extermination of the Jews and the enrichment of himself in wealth and
power. God's purpose for Esther's life was for her to intervene with the
King to stop the fulfillment of Haman's evil scheme. As Mordecai told
Esther, ".who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as
this?" God knew and He used Esther to save her people.
Yesterday, in the "Miracle on the Hudson" God used Chesley B. "Sully"
Sullenberger III to save 150 people. As more than one person said, Sully was
the right person in the right place at the right time. Sully had flown F4's
in the Air Force, has been an airline pilot for 29 years, is certified as a
glider pilot, and had been studying crisis management. For all those years
as a pilot very little of an extraordinary nature had occurred in Sully's
career. He had been a very competent pilot doing his job to the best of his
ability for many years. Then, in a few short minutes of time all of his life
experience was needed and used to save all of those lives.
God has so many of His servants who are living obscure lives and many who
are living in obscure places doing less than exciting and fulfilling work.
However, God knows exactly where all of His servants are, and what they are
doing. He has a plan for each of our lives, and we should always seek to be
the right person, in the right place at the right time for Him to use. You
should always be sensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit, alert to
what is happening around you because God may suddenly intervene and need you
to be the servant that He uses.
Seek and pray for the fulfillment of God's will, plan and purpose in your
life because only God knows ".whether you have come to the kingdom for such
a time as this." It was Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III's time
yesterday. It may be your time today.
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