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“Trust and Obey”
“… Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish” Esther 4:16. Our minds often jump to a mandated action through man’s law that Christians would have to oppose and declare that we’d be ready even to die for our faith if necessary—although we hope it wouldn’t ever come to that! What we’re really hoping for is that we can “Trust and Obey” from a comfortable life that continues without trauma or drama. Perhaps that’s where Esther was before Mordecai came and told her the dire circumstances of their people and how she was the only one in a position to help … though it may cost all. Most often we are called to live out our faith when our situation has become difficult in some way, and we question God, wondering how He could really ask us to “Trust and Obey” in this. God is more interested in your character than your comfort, however. Christians in 21st Century America have grown so comfortable that we’d rather compromise with the culture, justifying why we “Trust and Obey” its demands rather than God’s commands—all the while believing the lie that we’d die for God if necessary. If we aren’t faithful in small things, will God trust us with larger ones?