Day Fifty
…And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
We just talked yesterday about how boldness doesn’t come by thinking about what it may be like if we were bold, or asking someone else to impart their boldness onto us, but rather it only comes by the personal pursuit in prayer asking God to make us bold. Truth be told, boldness isn’t boldness unless there is action, unless we do something.
Proverbs tells us that God orders our steps, but it doesn’t say that He takes them for us, meaning that God is clearing pathways and parting red seas, but there is nothing that He can do to force us to seize the opportunity that He is creating for us. God is praying, he’s begging for us to be bold.
We see this in Esther. She goes from being a nobody, minority orphan woman, the lowest of the low in the society she lives in, to becoming the Queen of a nation all because the King chose her. And she has the opportunity to just stand in amazement and in the shortsighted moment thinking that’s where the story ends, or she can come to realization that God has set all of these things in motion for something bigger. Something that won’t just change her life, but will change the life of a nation and every generation that is to come. To be bold, or not to be bold. The question wasn’t if there was opportunity, but would she seize it.
As you’ve been praying and studying along with us on being bold and courageous, have you taken action? I would be willing to bet that God has been setting opportunities in motion for you to share your faith, or finally make that deacon for your family or business, but have you taken the step. Or today do you stand at a red sea parted in amazement but not crossing over? Who knows maybe you’ve been brought to this church, to this moment, to hear these words for such a time as this. Be bold, more than just your life depends on it.
Blessings,
Ryan Rolls