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Has your heart ever mourned for those struggling through this life apart from a knowledge of God’s love and mercy? Have you asked God to do something about poverty and injustice? Have you felt sorry for the homeless and hungry? Have you shed a tear for those who live in loneliness? Maybe God’s gift to them is not a home, food, friends, or money. Maybe, just maybe, God’s gift to them is you! Yes, you – with all your failings and brokenness – with all your flaws and sins – with everything that is wrong with you – maybe, just maybe, you are the angel God has sent to bless and keep them.
The fourth chapter of Esther contains these words, Who knows but that you have come to this position for just such a time as this? What an amazing thought! The people of Israel were in danger, REAL danger. There was a plan to exterminate each and every one of them. Who would have thought that a former slave girl could save them all. It seems impossible. And it would have been, except that the plan was God’s. God had put Esther in place as the queen. I t was a fearsome thing to stand before the most powerful ruler on the earth at that time and tell him he had messed up, that his foolish pride had allowed him to be deceived and sucked into an evil plot based on jealousy and prejudice.
Who knows that your lifetime of preparation may be for only a few moments when God uses you as His most mighty instrument. It doesn’t have to be a world changing work. It might not make the front page of the morning papers. It WILL change at least two people’s lives directly, the person God calls you to encounter – and your own as you see God work through you showing forth His mighty power to all who will watch.
Have you ever considered that the very reason you were created was to address some of those very problems that break your heart and God’s?
Pastor Craig
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