If I Perish, I Perish
3/24/2019
While reviewing my Sunday school lesson this morning, I reread Esther’s words: “if I perish, I perish.” This is a thought that many missionaries have shown throughout the ages. They face trials that they could have passed up on by staying at home. However, they had the same determination that Esther showed. God is where they place the hopes, their future and their happiness. God comes first in their lives. Many missionaries go places that the average Christian will never go, because they have received the mission to go.
This mission came, because they asked God for guidance and had a willingness to go. Not every Christian is asked to be missionaries to foreign countries; they might receive the call to the hardest mission field, their own family. This does not mean that they should not have this same determination of “If I perish, I perish.” Your own family will remember every little bad thing that you have ever done and hold it against you. Yet by living before them the way that God wants us all to live, they can be won for Christ.
Christians of all nations have to make that same decision, if we do not live by the Word of God our souls will perish. Some Christians face physical death when they accept Christ into their hearts while others face spiritual death by living with the same friends they had growing up. We all face death, physical or spiritual and must determine in our hearts and mind that if we died it will be for Jesus.
Esther 4:15-16 (KJV)
15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Will you become a modern day Esther and tell God, “I will do your will and if I perish, I perish.”
C.I. Wilson