The Queen of Beauty and Courage

It's Your Time! Esther 4:14 Part 2

"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 royal position for such a time as this?"

Are Mordecai and Joel Osteen saying the same thing?

 
Joel Osteen is Pastor of the largest church in the nation. Maybe you watch him on TV. He’s very positive and encouraging; he preaches Good News. He’s written many books, including the one to the right.  

When Morecai told Esther that it was “her time” , he was telling her that her that not only her life but also the lives of Jews nationwide were at stake. She needed to risk to everything.
 
So I wonder. It seems to me that the two messages are very, very different. One sounds a little bit like, “if you lose your life you will find it”, the other sounds a little bit like, “if you seek your life you will find it”. Jesus said one of those. 

I have not read Osteen’s book and I suspect the title is misleading. But it makes me think. Is my life about me or is it about God and other people?
 
Prayer

“Lord, Jesus said that his life was all about you, not himself. Forgive me for all the ways that I’ve meshed Burger King (have it your way) with my faith which says to you, ‘have it your way’. Amen”