1 – Esther 4:12-14 (ESV) 12 And they told Mordecai what Esther had said. 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
RAF: Note Mordecai’s careful balance here between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility.
a. If Esther does not act, she will suffer consequences.
b. God has other means for deliverance, but she is square in the middle of this – and she needs to act according to her responsibility. Yes, God has other means, but she is His means now.
c. She is to seize the time as ordained by God.
God’s sovereignty is never an excuse for inaction.
