#soap # Esther 04 ## Title: You Are No Accident ## Scripture: (Esther 4:14) “If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!”” (NET) ## Observation: When you think about God, it’s amazing how “in charge” He truly is over our lives. We could have been born at any time, in any place, with any parents, with any circumstances, with any possibilities, and with any limitations. This becomes a theological question. Some think that God is limited in all this, but not me. I think that God is fully in charge, even over the things I don’t agree with or have questions about. The difference is that I have made up my mind to trust Him even over the things I would have done differently. How about you? If you can trust Him in the unknown and uncertain, you can begin to have confidence there. You can begin to realize that God is FOR you more than you realize. He is working in your life more than you know and is WITH you more than you know. Therefore, don’t wish you had someone else’s gifts, opportunities, or abilities. Realize God made you the way He did for a reason and find out what that is. **DISCLAIMER**- Realizing God made us the way He did does not give us an excuse to not always try to be the best version of ourselves. We should always seek to become more Christlike in every area of life. We do this, first of all, because God’s Word tells us to. We do this, second of all, because it is in the pursuit of becoming Christlike that God molds us and forms us into what He made. ## Application: Trust that God knows what He is doing and move forward. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for being more in charge than we can imagine.