Esther 4

There is a verse from this chapter that has stuck with me ever since I read it for the first time: "And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?" (vs 14) A couple days ago, I confessed that I no longer believe in coincidences, and it seems obvious to me that Mordecai didn’t believe in coincidences either. He knew that someone else was in charge of the events that had led Esther to be in the right place at the right time.

Talking about God and time is always interesting because His perspective on time is so much different than ours. And one of the reasons I believe God gave us the Bible is so that we can see, over and over, how His timing is always perfect. This is something that is difficult for us to see over the course of our own lives, but when we read something like the Bible that spans so many generations, we can see how God’s timing is always perfect and always right on time.

It must have been an incredibly surreal thing for Esther to have been chosen out of all the other Persian women to be queen. I bet there were times when she wondered what was going on. But, as Mordecai so wisely said, she was not in that place by accident. She had come to her royal position for "such a time" as that.

And you are not where you are by accident either. God has brought you to right where you are for "such a time as this." You are in the right place at the right time, and God’s hand is guiding and directing you. So relax. Trust. God’s timing is perfect. He knows exactly what He’s doing, and His plans are always right on time.