Everyone loves a hero, but most heroes don't feel like one when the moment arrives.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues his study of Esther, and he'll bring us to a pivotal crossroads in her story.

One person, one moment, one impossible choice.

Chuck explores what it really means to stand alone when everything is at stake, and why

God may have placed you exactly where you are for such a time as this.

Chuck titled his message, Thinking and Saying What's Right, Regardless.

For Esther's people in Persia, life had turned bleak overnight. Because of a wicked plan born in the anti-Semitic mind of a man named

Heyman, every Jew in the nation was suddenly living on borrowed time. Think of it. Before the year was out,

their epitaphs would be chiseled in stone.

What a frightening thought.

The capital city of Susa was thrown into a state of confusion and panic.

Can this really be true?

Can there be anyone who could change the plan?

Or delay it?

Or completely abolish it.

The Jews were absolutely devastated.

Today we pick up the account in the book of Esther, Chapter 4.

I'll be reading this passage from the New American Standard Bible.

Chapter 4, verse 1 begins.

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes,

and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.

He went as far as the king's gate, for no one was to enter the king's gate, clothed in sackcloth.

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