S – If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.” 

Esther 4:14 CSB

O – Commentary:

• deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place: Mordecai knew God’s promises and realized that God would not allow his chosen people to be annihilated (see Gen 12:3; 22:18; 28:14; Isa 60:1–5). • perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this: Esther’s rise to power at this precise time was not just a lucky chance of fate—her position as Xerxes’ favored wife and queen was a role that God had given her to influence history for the Jewish people.

 New Living Translation Study Bible 

A – God is working in all things – good and bad.  He also is involved in timing – “For such a time as this.”  We can trust both of these principles in our lives.  We must do our part and have that God will do his. 

R – Heavenly Father, we worship and surrender to you today.  We are grateful that you are working in our lives with perfect timing.  Strengthen our faith when we don’t understand what you are doing or when the timing doesn’t meet our expectations.