Mighty Warrior of God

I am doing the Esther Bible Study by Beth Moore and is it ever powerful. Yesterday I was reading in week 4, and I am getting ready to study the "for such a time as this" part that is by far the most famous quote from the book of Esther. I would like to quote somthing that was written because it hit me like a ton of bricks. It is from chapter 4 and is the conversation that Esther and Mordecai are having about what is going to be happening and that she needs to go before the king and ask for mercy for her people. Beth writes, "Esther's superficial life is about to be shattered, and a woman much deeper than her skin was about to be unearthed. If we're blessed, the same will happen to each of us. As painful as the process may be, that which shatters our superficialty also shatters the fetters of our fragility and frees us to walk with dignity and might to our destinies. We are not the fragile flowers we've considered ourselves to be. We, like Esther, are the warrior princesses of God."

This so impacted my day yesterday. God brings about things and situations in our life that really shape who we will become through Him. And most of those things are not easy to follow through with or deal with but they are for our good and will bring many blessings into our life as long as we do our part and praise and delight ourselves in the Lord.

It doesn't matter if the things that come into our life may be hard and unbearable, our Lord has allowed them and it is up to us to make the decision to rise up and praise him in the bad times as well as the good times because it is for our good. I've wrestled with that phrase "for our/my good" alot in the past and sometimes still do it but I've found that in time I can see my good in it. As a female, I think that I did have the mentalty that I was not strong and mighty and that I wasn't going to make it through some the the issues that I have had to survive in the past. But reading that quote yesterday really concreted in to me that I was a mighty warrior princess. I am strong because the Lord has made me that way. Doesn't it say in the Bible "when I am weak, I am strong"? Because it is where I go to find strength that makes me strong. I ran to the Lord and clung to him for dear life and He made me strong and able to take the next breath or the next step. I can now see that weak and strong go hand in hand and dignity walked right up beside me. Praise the Lord for all the trials that we are going to face, because they turn us into the Mighty Warrior Princess that the Lord has named us through His Son, Jesus.