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, NIV In chapter 4 of Esther, Mordecai tells Esther that if she doesn’t go before the king to ask for deliverance for the Jews, it will come from some other place. Mordecai also pointed out that perhaps she had been appointed to her royal position “for such a time as this.” Perhaps her very purpose in life was to work as only she could on behalf of God’s chosen. God works in our lives in the same way. Nothing is by chance. The students sitting in your classroom this year were specifically chosen by our loving Father to spend 36 weeks with you. He chose you to be a part of impacting them in some way. And, in His most loving way, He also chose them for you....