Leaving the Familiar – It's Time for the Fullness of God!

Kathi Pelton describes how hearing the Lord’s voice has been easy for her, for a long time. She connects this with how she experienced the fear of the Lord come over her at the beginning of 2021, breaking her out of familiarity.
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As we are approaching Purim (February 25th and 26th), which is the celebration of the salvation of the Jewish people as told in the book of Esther, I have been thinking about how Esther had to leave everything familiar (her childhood home, Mordecai and her daily routine) to be prepared as queen. I also think about how she needed to be prepared to risk her life to save her people.
Bravery and courage are not built in familiarity or comfort, but in the unknown. She would have to trust Mordecai’s counsel and the steps of the Lord fully. This would not be a time to assume or act hastily. She had to be emptied of her natural responses and of the “ordinary” to do this extraordinary thing that would save the entire Jewish race—even her own life.
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