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You were chosen for a time as this! Esther 4:14

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ESTHER 4:14

“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?”

One of the unanswerable questions I’ve always had within myself is the question of my own existence. Why do I exist in an age that is plagued with Covid? Why do I exist in an age that is plagued with sexual immorality? Why do I exist in an age where abortion is considered a human right? Why do I exist in an age where homosexuality is celebrated? Why do I exist in an age inundated with inflation, insecurity and Christian persecution?

These thoughts engulf my mind and sometimes, they make me wish I was never born. Have these thoughts ever plagued your mind before?

Have you ever doubted the providence and predestining prowess of God?

Why was I born into this family?

Why was I born into this country?

Why was I born into this lineage?

Why was I born into this condition? The whys we ask fate are never ending, and sometimes, unanswerable.

However, one can take solace in the fact that nothing that has happened, that is happening or will happen to one is beyond the foreknowledge of God. The Bible says that we have been ‘predestined according to God’s purpose’ (Ephesians 1:11). That is to say, our birth is not by chance. God specifically chose the geographical location, lineage and family you should be born into. There is no accident in destiny!

The revelation of this fact serves as the foundation for our primary text. Esther, the Jewish queen of Persia, finds herself in a perplexing situation in our text. Her people are on the verge of extinction due to the evil plans of a man named Haman. Esther, despite being a Jew, is flummoxed by the situation and does not act immediately.

This changes when Mordecai, her wise old uncle, approaches her and tells her the truth. One of the things he said to her stands out and is crucial in the context of this admonition. ‘And who knows whether thou art [not] come to the kingdom for such a time as this,’ he says.

Probably Esther had thought her enthronement as queen was a mere reward for her hard-work and beauty. Mordecai’s statement opened her eyes to see that her enthronement was actually a part of God’s plan to deliver the people of Israel.

She had no idea about this when she enrolled in the beauty pageantry. She had no idea about this when she was chosen to become the queen. It was at this moment that she realized that all this while, her steps from the streets to the palace had been ordained by God for the deliverance of her people.

This is a wonderful lesson and source of comfort for you as a believer. You may not get the desired answers to all of the whys you ask fate right now, but if you remain faithful to God, you will someday come to full understanding of it.

The story of Joseph exemplifies this. At the age of seventeen, the Christian icon was sold into slavery. When his friends were enjoying the warmth and comfort of their homes, he was working as a slave in the home of a foreigner. His situation deteriorated from slavery to imprisonment. Joseph, on the other hand, maintained his faith in God.

He had no complete understanding of God’s plan. Nonetheless, he was aware that God was in command. He walked by faith rather than sight. God eventually promoted him from the lowest level of Egypt’s prison to the highest office in the Egyptian political administration.

After revealing his identity to his brothers, they were sore afraid. However, he said to them, ‘God brought me here for this situation’.

You, like Joseph and Esther, were chosen for a time like this. You were purposefully brought into this world. You were born into your country and family at the perfect time.

If it was plagued with poverty, you were born there to be the bringer of wealth. If it is plagued with unbelief, you were born there to be the light to their darkened hearts. God chose you for this particular age!

That is why you are endowed with some of the skills you have! There are several pointers to the fact that there is a purpose for your existence in this time!

Therefore, like Mordecai admonished Esther, I admonish you to rise! To rise above complaining! To rise above complacency! To rise above asking the whys! I implore you to embrace the peculiarity of your purpose, to seek to know more about it. To trust in the Lord and let Him lead you into the fullness of your calling.  

You were chosen for a time as this!

This article was written by Nwodo Divine

POETRY

DESTINY

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The blind leading the blind,
Life calls for the inclined,
Time is the unit of destiny,
Such is Life.

Stand your ground,
Lest do not be proud,
Open your eyes wide,
For life is not a game.

Living in bad debt.
Yet death looms around for men,
And where can you find life,
Such life is in Christ.

Such is life is what they say,
We can’t do better they claim,
Yet destiny calls your name,
Frivolousness ends your race.

Say your name to grace,
Tell her about your race,
Find the path to destiny,
Never bring yourself to sympathy.

Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

Spirituality

Discovering your Purpose

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Acts 13:36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.”

Every man in this world has a reason for which he was created. While molding a clay pot, a potter has in mind, the kind of clay pot he wants to produce and the purpose that pot will accomplish.

Creators do not create for mere pleasure, or leisure. They are intentional in their designs and inventions. Everything they create has a purpose which it accomplishes.

You have a purpose which God has ordained that you will fulfill. You are not in this world to add to the growing population. Your birth was not a mistake. Though, you might have been birthed out of wedlock, yet, you are not a mistake. Your parents’ act was a mistake, but your life and delivery was never a mistake.

It was foreordained in the Eternal counsels of God. Until you accept this fact and begin to seek for the Purpose for which you are here, you will either be a mediocre or an ordinary member of the society. This is because your uniqueness is in your purpose. Your joy, happiness and fulfillment is in your purpose.

Like David, you have a purpose to accomplish in your generation.

The key to understanding with clarity, that which God has made you to be is necessary to you living a life of impact. The purpose which God ordained for you is beyond being a mere clerk or member of staff. It is something greater; something which the world has never seen. Jesus described us as Salt who are to add seasoning to this world. What seasoning are you adding to the lives of people around you.

HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE

  1. Find your Passion:

Follow your passion; it will lead to your purpose

ORPRAH

Pay attention to the things you are connected to. Do not be mistaken though. Not everything that you love will turn out to be your purpose. Having a liking for a cause is different from having passion for it. Passion is deep and strong connection you feel between your soul and a cause. That which you have this connection to, is most often connected to your Purpose.

If you are having difficulty finding your Purpose, take out some time for self-reflection. Write down a list of twenty cause you love. Reduce it to the top ten you love a lot. Reduce this ten to the top three which you love a lot, until you finally have one left. That passion which is superior to every other thing in your life, follow it. It will lead you in the path of purpose.

2. Seek the Counsel of God:

Psalm 139:16: “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Every other human method of finding purpose, though most often reliable, can turn out to lead in the wrong direction. Only God can give you a clear definition of your purpose and mission on this Earth.

One of the lovely things about God is that He will not only reveal His Purpose for you to you, He will also give you perfect understanding of that purpose, and guide you in fulfilling it.

How does God reveal ones purpose?

God revealed Jeremiah’s purpose to Jeremiah through a vision (Jeremiah 1:5). God reveals our purpose to us through dreams, visions, ideas. But sometimes, God does not reveal our purpose in entirety. He expects us to walk with Him by Faith. It is in our continuous walk with Him and obedience to His instructions that our purpose become clearer to us.

GENERAL

Find Your Purpose

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It was the will of God for Christ to die. Christ was not oblivious of His mission here on earth.

This can be ascertained in his statement,

“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.” ◄ Hebrews 10:7 ►

This statement was a profiling to his purpose on earth.

Let us examine something.

— THEN SAID I, LO, I COME (IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME…)

The above statement is one of an already discovered purpose.

What Christ was saying is this, “I know why I’m here on earth. I am not a purposeless being! I am not here by accident, but I am here as a purposeful Being predestined by God.”

Predestination is the intention of God, not the decision of God.

From Christ’s statement, it can be inferred that we are all purposeful beings predestined by God for greatness.

No one is an accident.

You were created on purpose for a purpose which has to be discovered.

—The second part of the statement says, “…TO DO THY WILL, O GOD.”

This depicts the purpose for which Christ came to the world.

His purpose was, “…TO DO THY WILL, O GOD.”

If Christ was clueless about His purpose on earth, He wouldn’t have been able to fulfill that which was written concerning Him.

Above and below, an unidentified purpose is an unfulfilled life.

Before Christ departed, He left behind a principle for purpose discovery.

His principle is short, simple and straightforward.

His principle has produced[and is still producing] great people.

His principle has lifted[and is still upraising] people from the dunghill of sin to sit among princes.

His principle has always, “…raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.” ◄ 1 Samuel 2:8►

His principle, unambiguously, says and I quote,

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” ◄ Matthew 6:33►

Note that the word ‘FIRST‘ is used in term of priority. It is in our place of seeking God that we will get to discover our true reason for existing.

Finding God is finding ourselves.

God has an assignment for our lives. This assignment is what we called, “PURPOSE.”

It is this assignment that will put you in the right place at the right time with the right group of people and location to fulfill his purpose for your life.

Note this, a lifestyle of constant failure and futility are as a result of living our lives out of focus to the purpose and plan of God.

The Devil’s goal is to keep the believer blinded and out of focus to his or her life’s assignment. When he does that, he keep the believer in a lifestyle of failure and strife.

The power of the oppressor is the ignorance of the oppressed.

◄ Hebrews 10:7 ►“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.”




Written by MYROSE SAVIOUR LILY