And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14 ESV)
Purpose
Young whippersnappers annoy me with their miss-grammars regarding “on purpose,” and “by accident.” Commonly, we now hear the prepositions confused. “I did that on accident,” one might explain incorrectly. And recently, I even heard a student accuse, “you did that by purpose!”
I scowled, and imagined terrible punishments for abusing the English language.
But perhaps, while I hate to admit it, the idea of something happening BY purpose should not be so abhorrent to me.
Mordecai, Esther’s uncle, muses in this verse about God’s purpose in Esther’s life. He is acknowledging that God has a plan, a grand one, a good one… and that even when we do not understand it, His plan is behind every event.
In other words, things happen by purpose. By God’s purpose. By God’s loving purpose.
Jesus knew this, dying on the cross. His death was not by accident. His death was by necessary purpose.
The Spiritually blind do not comprehend God’s purpose. And while we might not always comprehend it, either, we trust the planner.
We are peculiar, we know He has a purpose.