Moses began his ministry when he was eighty. Esther started hers as a teenage girl. When she heard the words of Mordecai\u2014\u2018Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?\u2019<\/i>\u2014she could easily have said, \u2018Give me time to grow up, get married, have children, and fulfil my dreams before asking me to put my life on the line to save the Jewish people.\u2019 But she didn\u2019t. She said, \u2018I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.\u2019<\/i> (Esther 4:16 AMPC) <\/p>\n
Often what God does in you while you\u2019re waiting is more important than the thing you\u2019re waiting for. Sometimes you think you\u2019re ready but God knows you\u2019re not, so He puts you into the school of faith. That\u2019s where you learn to listen to \u2018the teacher\u2019 (the Holy Spirit), study your lessons, pass the tests, and graduate so that God can use you. It\u2019s not a comfortable place to be, but God is more interested in your character than your comfort. <\/p>\n
Missionary Nancy Cockrell writes: \u2018It was God\u2019s plan all along to bring you here to serve Him, by using your gifts to minister to others\u2014for such a time as this. He has given you the grace to reflect the love and character of Christ, to be a light in a darkened world\u2014for such a time as this. You have a unique place of service in God\u2019s Kingdom, touching lives as only you can do\u2014for such a time as this.\u2019 <\/p>\n
So here\u2019s the question: is God telling you today\u2014your time has come?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moses began his ministry when he was eighty. Esther started hers as a teenage girl. When she heard the words of Mordecai\u2014\u2018Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?\u2019\u2014she could easily have said, \u2018Give me time to grow up, get married, have children, and fulfil my dreams before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}