When Right Choices are Hard Choices
December 20, 2017·Carmen Quevedo
Choices, choices, choices – we face them every day. Do we eat healthy, or indulge in that amazing dessert? Oops, I’m sorry, that wasn’t even fair to mention Christmas week! But seriously, do we put in the extra effort to do something right, or just enough to get by? Do we stand up for righteousness and risk our jobs, or remain silent, safe, and allow injustice to continue?
Queen Esther had to face the hardest of choices. Would she risk her own life to save the lives of her people? In Esther 4:14, her Uncle Mordecai had to remind her of the call on her life, her destiny, “…who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Her people were about to be massacred, at the king’s decree. Her life was in danger whether she chose to remain silent or to speak out, but speaking out was much harder. Or was it?
Knowing who she was and understanding her destiny, that she was here for such a time as this, gave her strength and courage in an incredibly difficult moment in her young life. With that confidence, she took two important steps, she asked for her people to fast and pray for her, THEN, she stepped out in faith, creativity, respect, and boldness. Her faith was in the God who had both positioned her for this moment and given her the creative methods that would allow her to be heard (read about the banquet in chapter 5!). She respected the culture and its rules, while choosing to walk in boldness. Such character!
I hope the same can be said of you and me when we face hard choices. Are we willing to do what is right – always praying first, respecting others, allowing God to show us His creative methods and then walking forward in boldness, knowing who we are in Christ? May our answer be a resounding – yes, yes, yes!
