by Dr. Walter L Wilson
ESTHER
A lovely J ewish girl who occupied a very prominent position as queen, was used by God to save her people. Her husband was a very cruel man, but she found favor in his eyes because of her beauty and her lovely character. She spoke some words one time when she went to visit her uncle that are recorded in the Bible — “If I perish, I perish.” Her name was Esther, a Jewess, and she was the queen of king Ahasuerus. A law had gone out that all the Jewish people should be killed, a law which only the king could repeal. He was such a cruel person, however, that to enter his presence without being summoned was to risk one’s life. If the king held out his golden sceptre, you then had permission to speak. If not, you were killed. Esther determined to take this chance, and she told her uncle that she would go in and plead for their people and, “if I perish, I perish.” Those were her five words. The king had not paid any attention to Esther for some time. She didn’t know wheth er he was angry with her or not. So she went into the king’s presence and waited. She was willing to die if she could save the lives of her people. The king held out the golden sceptre to her, and Esther told him about the plight of her own life and the lives of her people. King Ahasuerus repealed the law, thus saving the lives of the Jewish people. If you’re going to live for God, you must give yourself over to Him with out reservation. Our ambition should be to spend and be spent for our Lord. The Lord Jesus laid down His life for us so we would not perish, and we have the joy of placing our lives at God’s disposal so that others might not perish. There was no certainty that Esther wouldn’t receive the wrath of the king. Others had died when they came before the king.
Esther knew, however, t h a t the prayers offered on her behalf would be heard by God in heaven, and that her petition to the king would be an swered if it was God’s will. Those who give themselves over to the Lord of the harvest for His service must ex pect to face dangers and disappoint ments in the path of duty. Paul prayed that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ might be with the saints at Corinth in II Corinthians 8:9. The grace of Christ in the heart of a believer enables that one to go to the utter limit for the glory of God. Men go into the wilds of the country way off from civilization among a people of a strange language and strange ways and strange food, giving their lives so that others might hear the Gospel. When a man or a woman steps out boldly for the Lord Jesus in the business world or in any other world, they are apt to lose a lot of friends because they don’t want to Deanne Miller of La Habra, California, has the opportunity of practicing on one of the many pianos located on the Biota Campus. This lovely instrument is a nine foot concert grand presented to the school as a memorial gift by Miss Louise Lansing. It is located in the Recital Hall of the new music building.
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