CREATIVITY AND TIMING

Esther 4:13-17
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Mordecai Requests Esther’s Help

13 Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed. 14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.” 17 So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.


The problem facing the Jews seemed insurmountable but… “nothing is impossible with God.” – Luke 1:37

Mordecai and Esther reasoned together and came up with a creative plan. At the right time they executed the plan. Over it all they sought God’s blessing… “fast…do not eat or drink for three days…”. Creativity and timing are essential to problem solving combined with radical dependence on God… “If I must die, I must die.”