Esther: From Sorrow To Joy Series

Thankfully, God has not left us in this world to face our enemy alone, because you see,

God will always have a way of deliverance for His people

While the Jews were in despair down in Egypt, God was raising up a Moses. When they couldn’t get in to the Promised Land, He was preparing a Joshua. The giant Goliath taunted the people of Israel and there seemed to be no hope, but a young man with a great faith was on his way. No matter what the age, no matter what you face, God always has a means of deliverance, and that way may be through you. You see, so many of those that God has chosen through the years were reluctant to rise to God’s call, but we need to remember what Mordecai told Esther. He said, “God can go get someone else if you won’t do it.” The point is simply this – God is going to bring deliverance to His people whether we choose to be a part of it or not.

Sometimes it is spiritual deliverance, other times it may be physical or emotional, but you can count on this one thing – the Lord Jesus Christ cares for you and has made a way of deliverance for you. Why did Jesus come in the first place? He said in Luke 4,

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”

Whether we fully understand how the Lord works in our lives or not, the fact is that He said that He had come for the express purpose of deliverance – He wants to free you from bondage! Most of us will never know the terrors of physical bondage or the kinds of fear that the Jews experienced under the death wish of Haman, but you live with fear and worry and anxiety every day of some sort. God wants to deliver you from all of it. I like what the apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 1. As he wrote to the Corinthian church, he began praising God for His goodness and gave some reasons why the Lord was to be blessed. Then he said of God…

“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolaton and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us…”