Action! Part 2
Posted by | Posted in Bible, Leadership | Posted on 22-04-2009
Today we are in Esther 5…
Esther has agreed that she must act to save her people. She will do so risking her own life by going before the King without being requested. But before she goes she knows that it is only God can the actually perform the work that needs to be done. She is only His vehicle. So she does what every good Christian would do in this situation. She prays and she requests prayer from others.
Now there is nothing wrong with praying or requesting prayer when God requires us to act. But what I find interesting here is that Esther doesn’t pray for weeks or months. She doesn’t have endless committee meetings to discern God’s will, she already knows what God’s will is. Esther calls for three days of prayer and fasting and then approaches the King.
I find that for many of us today, prayer is a crutch. When we don’t want to act, we pray. The lesson from Esther is that we must pray, but we also must act.
Are you acting?
Disclaimer: I never promised you anything new or earth shattering on this blog, just life as it happens to me. This is where God is working in my life. Therefore that is what I write.
