This Week's Worship

Standing Alone in the Wilderness

Theme

The story of Book of Esther represents aloneness in the most important moment of Esther’s life, which can be called a spiritual “wilderness.”

Sometimes God brings us into moments where no one can fully walk with us. Faith becomes personal. Obedience becomes lonely. Yet those wilderness moments become the place where courage and providence meet.

“The wilderness is often the place where God prepares hidden courage, and where we discover the personal nearness of God.”

Esther 4:15-17

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.” 17 So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.