Daily Lesson for September 22, 2014

Today's daily lesson is from Esther chapter 4 verse 14:

"And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 

Esther was a Jewish girl who rose to become queen of Persia. Esther hid the fact that she was a Jew from her husband King Xerxes. But then, in a twist of fate set off by a villainous man, an order was given by King Xerxes that all the Jews in the kingdom should bow down and worship Xerxes lest they be killed. 

Just as the order was to be carried out, Esther's cousin sent word to her that she must speak to the king, reveal her Jewishness, and seek to have the order withdrawn. "Who knows," Mordecai said, "it may be for just such a time as this that you are here." 

Esther weighed the consequences. She knew that in going before the king she may well have been signing her own death certificate. But she decided to speak up anyway.
"I will go to the king," she said, "and if I perish, I perish.” She then went before the king and the Jews were spared.

There is a time to be silent; and there is a time to speak. When its time to speak, let us speak. If we perish, we perish.