Woodhaven Baptist Church

10 March 2003

Dear Friend,

Recently, we have been studying the book of Esther on Sunday nights. The story goes that many Jews were still living in the kingdom of Medea-Persia. Esther, a Jew, was chosen to be King Xerxes' Queen. The Grand-Vizier, Haman, plotted to kill all the Jews. Esther was in a precarious position, to intercede for her people could mean her own death. Her cousin, Mordecai, had some veri important advice for her:

"Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the King's palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther 4:13-14

It is repeated through-out Scripture that God has done the impossible in impossible situations. A prisoner named Joseph became the savior during a worldwide famine. A shepherd boy about thirteen years of age slew the greatest warrior of the Philistines. An uneducated fisherman preached before thousands and added three thousand to the kingdom of God. And an orphaned Jewess brought deliverance to hundreds of thousands of Jews.

We can agree with our minds that God worked that way in the past, but what is He doing lately? Our country is on the brink of war. The economy is rough. There are many homeless on our streets. And personal emotional pain is all around.

We as players in the situation have difficulty seeing the solution. We can become like Job, although he trusted God, he still wondered what is going on. "Did God lose control? Does He even care what is happening?"

I like building puzzles. I start by building the frame first and then move to a prominient feature and go from there. We can't see the outcome in life because we are within the puzzle. We don't see the outside frame. We are unsure of the parameters. What is the overall picture? For that knowledge, we have to rely on the proividence of God.

Maybe God is lead you into an impossible situation, so that His glory could manifest more brilliantly. Maybe, the people He has brought into your life are not just coincidental. God is doing a work already around you. The choice is up to you whether you want to be a part of it. To be used by God or tossed by life.

With love,

Pastor Scott Patz

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