⌚ Esther 4:14 | "For if you keep silent at this time..."

Happy Monday, everyone!

It’s another week in God’s Word and today we are exploring a new book for Malachi Daily — Esther.

If the full verse is too long for you to memorize this week, you can focus on just the last part of the verse:

And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

In today’s email…

• 🫣 Is God MIA?

• 📖 The structure of Esther

• 🎵 A song on worshipping God everywhere

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MEMORIZE 🧠 

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.

And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14

CONTEXT 📕 

The book of Esther is one of the most unique stories in the Bible.

I don’t know if you're aware of this, but God’s name (Yahweh in Hebrew) is never mentioned. Not once.

Yet every part of the story is filled with “coincidences” that point to Him working behind the scenes.

Here’s the big picture:

• Esther is a young Jewish woman living in Persia, far from her homeland.

• Through an unlikely series of events, she becomes queen.

• Her cousin Mordecai saves the king from an assassination plot.

• Then the villain, Haman, convinces the king to issue a law to wipe out the Jewish people.

At first, it looks like the end of the story. But this book is built like an “X” (a literary design called a chiasm).

The first half goes downhill with bad news, threats, and danger. Then, in the middle (chapter 6), the story shifts. Haman is humiliated, Mordecai is honored, and God’s people are rescued.

Right at the center of this tension comes Esther 4:14. Mordecai challenges Esther with these famous words:

This is the heartbeat of the whole book.

Esther wasn’t the queen by accident. Her position was part of God’s hidden plan.

And this week, I encourage you to reflect on your position and how it might be part of God’s plan.

APPLY AND RESPOND 🏃‍♂️ 

Let’s make this practical:

📖 Read Esther 1–4 this week. Notice the “coincidences.” Ask yourself: How does God seem to be working behind the scenes?

📝 Memorize Esther 4:14. Choose if you’ll be memorizing the full verse, or if you want to focus on the last part. Write it on a sticky note. Put it on your bathroom mirror. Say it each morning.

💡 Ask yourself: Where has God placed me “for such a time as this”? At home? At work? On my team? In my friend group?

🙏 Pray

Father, thank You for working even when I can’t see it. Help me to believe my life isn’t random. Show me today how You want to use me right where I am, for such a time as this. Amen.

SONG OF THE WEEK 🎵 

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I’ve been jamming to this song by Brandon Lake on worshipping God anywhere.

Even if you have to praise in prison or pray in “the battle,” God is worthy of our praise.

I can’t think of a better song of focus and worship as we work through Esther’s story.

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ANSWER KEY ✅ 

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.

And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14