“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 4:14 NKJV
There comes a time as believers when we need to stand boldly and speak out. It could be in a period of great injustice in the land. Sometimes it is to stand against the perversion of a generation as we see even in our own time. We can see different men and women of the bible who stood for righteousness and justice even in their own time. It was not easy for them neither was it a trending thing. However, they took a stand in the face of grave consequences to herald the kingdom of God.
When Esther, Queen of Persia, hesitated to speak out against a law that authorised the genocide of her people, her uncle Mordecai warned her of the danger of remaining silent. He declared, “Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Mordecai understood that silence in a time of crisis would mean destruction for the Jews. However, he also recognised that God had strategically placed Esther in a position where she could intervene. Had she remained silent, she would have failed to fulfil the divine purpose for which she was elevated to the palace. In God’s perfect plan, she was positioned for such a time as this to counter Haman’s evil scheme.
Do you know why God has strategically placed you where you are? Are you rising to the occasion in the face of injustice and unrighteousness? What is your disposition to the decadence and perversion in our time? You were born for such a time as this. The reason you are in that school is for a time like this. God did not make a mistake even in your current location because it is for a time like this. It is what you do at this moment in time that dictates what becomes of your life.
This is a call to you and me. Arise to raise the banner of Jesus in a time like this. Your silence is not the way now. As you pray, stand boldly and speak Jesus.