Night Is Falling

“Do not think that because you are of the [K]ing’s house you alone of all the [people] will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the [oppressed and downtrodden] will arise from another place.” (Esther 4:13–14, NIV 1984).

My Musings – While the above verse speaks of a specific event, I think it still speaks to us today. It is still a fallen world. Fallen because we abdicated it to the evil one. He remains intent on destroying God’s creation, especially His chosen ones. So until the Lord returns, there will always be oppression and injustice. Those who are oppressed and downtrodden are not always given relief or provided deliverance from their afflictions in the here and now. For the relief and deliverance that God provides transcends our mortality. For “if only for this life we have hope [relief and deliverance] in Christ, we…