ARE WE ESTHERS OF MORDECAIS?

In Esther chapter 4 we read of the different responses to the decree annihilating the Jewish people. Esther is safe in the palace, and not even aware of the decree. Mordecai laments, fasts and weeps.

Today there is much in the world which makes God weep. We need to ask whether we are Esthers, sitting comfortably; or Mordecai’s, longing for something better.

There are many things which should cause us concern but perhaps the main one is the way the nation is drifting so far from God’s ways that many are calling good ‘evil’ and evil ‘good’.

Maybe we should remember the warning that Mordecai gave to Esther - don’t think that you will escape if you do nothing.

In the Parable of the Minas (Luke 19) there are three groups: Faithful servants with an inheritance; rebels who are judged; the unfaithful servant who remains a servant (salvation is God’s work and cannot be lost) but has no reward. How shameful to stand before Christ on the last day and say: ‘sorry, I was too comfortable, I went to sleep’.