GOT QUESTIONS

GOT QUESTIONS

Thursday, November 06, 2014

 

  When I’m reading and/or studying Scripture questions pop in mind, sometimes lots of them; keeping mental order being part of the “workman” 2Timothy 2:15 task for me.

  For instance, when reading in the book of Esther about Mordecai urging her to risk her life for her people, several questions came to me:

• How many individuals are living what they consider ordinary lives when actually they are in position to make major difference at a critical moment?
• A moment that may be the one-time major event in their life?
• How many of us, self included, are ready and willing should such moment be ours?
• Who knows whether I/you/we have come to this kingdom for such a time like this? God definitely knows. Mordecai has insight.
• God, His master plan unfailing, has an opportunity-to-involve list? I believe so, and the qualifications are nothing like those the world uses.  Consider His selections recorded in Scripture. 
• As a helpful preparatory exercise I personalize Esther 4:14 -- If I am completely silent when opportunity is presented, intercession (or possibly “interference”), agency of relief and deliverance shall be the privilege of the next person in line!

  I close today’s thoughts with those of the Apostle Paul’s insight I’m meditating upon. “God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. Brothers and sisters, consider what you were when God called you to be Christians. Not many of you were wise from a human point of view. You were not in powerful positions or in the upper social classes. But God chose what the world considers nonsense to put wise people to shame. God chose what the world considers weak to put what is strong to shame. God chose what the world considers ordinary and what it despises-what it considers to be nothing-in order to destroy what it considers to be something. As a result, no one can brag in God's presence.” GW 1Corinthians 1:25-29 

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