Own the palace else it owns you

Mordecai appeals to the idea of vocation. Unless you use your clout, your credentials, and your money in service to the people outside the palace, the palace is a prison, it has already given you your name. Sometimes we may think we have been given little and are always striving for more, but we have been given much, and God has called us to put it into play. It is natural to root your identity in your position in the palace, to rest your security in the fact that you have a certain measure of control over the variables in your life; to find your significance in having clout in certain circles. But if you are unwilling to risk your place in the palace for your neighbors, the palace owns you.

Idolatry has power over our actions because it has power over our hearts. When we set our hope on an idol in this way, we are saying to ourselves " if I had that, it would fix everything, then i'd feel my life really had value." or "If I have to let go of what I have, all that I am is amount to nothing." Now, if anything is our "salvation" we must have it, and so we treat it as nonnegotiable. If circumstances threaten to take it away, we are paralyzed with uncontrollable fear. Whatever that is we choose to worship becomes our salvation and our worth.

On the other hand, when we see Jesus as a Savior dying on the cross for us, not mere a collective love, but loving us individually, then you will see how valuable you are to him. It will convince you of your real, inestimable value. And when you see how much you are loved, your work will become far less selfish. Suddenly all the other things in your work life, your influence, your resume, and the benefits they bring you, become just things. You can risk them, spend them, and even lose them.
You are free.

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