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Scripture Reading: Esther 2:7

Life is certainly complicated these days. Most of us feel that it is worse than it has ever been. According to statistics, divorce rates are higher than ever but more babies are being born. However, statistics also prove that we are raising a parentless generation.

Grandparents are raising their children’s children. the paternal and maternal responsibilities are consumed by the lust of their flesh, their pleasures and a search to fill a void in their lives that only God can fill. Alcohol, drugs and perversion are at the top of their list. In the hearts and minds of the children, they feel they are to blame. Oh, Holy Father, protect our children!

If we could all put on a Mordecai mentality, our children would know they are loved and that God is love, power and their provision. Mordecai’s choices and responsibility made him a man who took in a parentless child and raised her as his own. Esther’s parents had not abandoned her for the world and its pleasure. Mordecai chose to take on an orphan by death of both parents. He took her for his own daughter.

According to study, Esther’s parents were God fearing Jews and she was raised to respect, honor and obey her elders. When Mordecai made the choice to raise Esther, his loyalty to God and family was his mentality. I don’t believe he had a second thought about taking Esther to raise.

What would it take for the parents of today to birth their babies and raise them to adults? What would it take for the children to respect, honor and obey their parents? What would it take to see families staying together and their children being strongly involved in the home life, the church life, and an intimacy with Christ? The answer lies in a Mordecai mentality. The list requires these things:

• Look beyond your selfishness and take responsibility for who you are.
• Love God and others to the point that you are willing to set and live godly examples.
• Go above and beyond your comfort zone to think of the well-being of others.
• Purpose in your heart to be parents who put God first and raise your children with the same mentality.
• Be willing to be godly parents to your own children.
• Don’t reject the rejected and parentless generation.
• Remember, God has chosen you to work a plan through that others can come to know Him through your life and testimony.
• Like Mordecai...be willing to pour your life into someone who God puts before you.
• Like Mordecai...train them up to be bold, respectable, humble and holy.

These are just a few of the mentality and attributes of Mordecai. I could go on and on of how he loved her unconditionally, how he mentored her to go before the King, how he encouraged her in her decision to go and the bravery she exemplified by the simple statement, “If I perish, I perish.”

Esther never doubted God’s love for her and she was taught by Mordecai the importance of trusting God totally. Mordecai had taught her all these years that God had brought her to the palace and chosen her as Queen for such a time to save her nation. Her trust in Mordecai and her faith in God prevailed.

From my heart to yours, I challenge all of us to put on a Mordecai mentality. Re-read the list above and let’s see where we are falling short. Let’s all take a stand that puts God first and ourselves last. God is longing to raise up the modern day Mordecai.

Parents, that would be YOU. Leaders of our churches and youth leaders that would be YOU. Some son, daughter and parentless child is looking for the unconditional godly love that Mordecai poured into Esther. All it takes is to die to self, take on the nature of Christ and receive those who need a Mordecai figure in their lives.

You are the one that can raise up a generation that will stand for God when all the rest of them feel rejected and doomed, just like they did in the days of Esther. Wouldn’t it be great to have recorded in a book somewhere that read, “And he/she brought up the children and they became the Christ like example that saved a generation from themselves, the world and the tactics of satan.”

Heavenly Father, I pray for a Mordecai mentality not only in my life but in the lives of all who love you.

I Just Love Jesus,

Dr. Brenda J. Robinson

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• Posted by: Dr. Brenda Robinson