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For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” --- Esther 4:14 In the book of Esther, her uncle Mordecai, challenged her with words that Jews and Christians down through the centuries have often rehearsed in the ears of those who are called upon to carry out a particularly difficult or dangerous task.. in order to forward God's plans and purposes - for who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this? - Who knows whether or not you have been placed in this particular position for this very purpose? Sometimes God will indeed place a man or woman into a particular place or bring them into a peculiar set of circumstances in order to carry out a distinct task.. to speak a particular word or fulfil a certain challenge. God often graciously uses His people to carry out distinct tasks or challenges, in order to fulfil His perfect plans and purposes, which cannot fail. But if we are unwilling to take up the gauntlet, God will carry out His initiative through another willing servant or use an alternative course, in order to complete His plan of redemption. Indeed Esther herself was given such a warning that if she acted selfishly and tried to save her own skin, because of her royal status.. her wealth, power and position would hold no security for her. Indeed she was warned - if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place.. but at what a cost. Esther would have lost an opportunity to be used by God in His unfolding plan of redemption.. As believers we are all God's servants and each one has been planted in a place of God's choosing.. to be used by Him as He forwards His redemptive plan. In an amazing way each one of us could be challenged with the words: who know whether or not you have been placed in this particular position for a time such as this? We may not be called upon to act as regent to a great and mighty king, like Esther.. but each one of us can be used by God to minister.. to a lost neighbour, a prodigal son, a straying daughter, a sick relative, a local catastrophe - a hurting heart. Let us be ready and willing like queen Esther to carry out the work that God has prepared for us to do, even when the task seems difficult, dangerous or daunting - for who knows whether or not you have been placed in this particular position - to pay a little part in the history of man's redemption. Source: https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/esther-4-14