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My new "Community" . . . and it is Well WITH MY SOUL
April 10, 2018
Recently I felt like God wanted me to read a book of the Bible again - Esther.  Did I want to? Absolutely not.
(Don’t judge me) I have not looked at the book of Esther since daily Bible class in high school.
 I thought Esther was boring. It’s Old Testament - and Jesus is not featured.   
 I’m not even sure I have heard a pastor deliver a message around Esther in all my 54 years of attending church.
But that thought was placed in me to read it and it would not go away.  BUT WHY GOD? Esther - really?
So I read it. It spoke to me. Confirming that those whispers from God really are intentional for the time
and season in our life we may currently be walking.  Esther was a game changer for her people! She was
placed there to be the person that God needed her to be in that given moment in time. It spoke to me that in
my current situation, I am placed there to be used for God.  
I realized that a recent health diagnosis has possibly given me a new platform, a new place, maybe where
they needed to be reached for Christ.  Maybe I have been placed where I am because God needs me there.
So with that being said it truly is all for His glory and therefore, it is well with my soul.
Just these past few months, my doctor has referred to the “PSa community”, she told me to research
and gather information.  Frankly I knew very little about Psoriatic Arthritis. I joined a group on line of
people from all over the world that have the same condition.  Members post about their symptoms,
struggles, successes, medications, what works, diets, encourage others, etc. I had been thinking how it
was a mixed blessing to belong to such a “community”.  Although I detest the disease that lead me
there - it is a sneaky and complicated condition. But I was finding that I enjoyed meeting new friends.
How could that seem right in the light of why I was placed there.
Now insert the whisper to read Esther.  BUT WHY GOD? After I read Esther - like a
hammer to my head, it hit me.  While reading the last chapter and then reading
the commentary . . . God wants me to be an Esther in the PSa community.  I should go before
our King and pray, just as Esther was placed in the King’s presence to aide her community.
Because of her petition to the King, her people were saved.  God I heard you, you want me to
pray for the members of my new community. Where you have placed me so that they may know you
and want to draw close. With God nothing is coincidental.  

As Lisa Brown Ross’s devotional states - “Esther’s divine moment of providence
came by accepting her responsibility to go to the king. However, Mordecai
was clear when he said to Esther that she could be the one who saved the
people, or not. God will use you only if you’re ready—or he will find someone else.”
  1. Esther 4:13-14 “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?”
  2. ©lisacarol99@gmail.com

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