Weekend Devotion — Are You Esther?

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"
— Esther 4:14 (NIV)

Against opposing odds, Esther met the call set before her and risked her life to save her people. At first she baulked, but her cousin Mordecai pointed out that she had everything to lose and nothing to gain by remaining silent. Seeing the situation through his eyes helped Esther see beyond herself.

Often when we look at our spiritually mismatched marriages, we see a situation we have no control over and no hope of ever changing. We need God’s help to see beyond our own limited vision and perspective.

This is probably the most challenging part being unequally yoked, to keep our eyes on God and to remember we potentially serve a higher calling in our marriages. But this is the truth we need to cling to in the most difficult of times. By keeping our eyes on God, we can see our marriages through his eyes and keep our hope planted firmly in Him.

Perhaps we too are the Esthers in our marriages and have been put there for such a time as this. When we keep the view of our marriages limited to what we see and perceive, we run the hazard of losing our hope, and even our faith. We need the bigger picture. We need God’s perspective.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. — 2 Corinthians 2:14–16

Praying and believing,
Dineen