Most leaders are the types of people who don’t want to lead. Earlier I mentioned Moses, but what about Esther. She was a young woman simply living with what was left of her family, lovingly cocooned among them. Mordecai was a leader as a scribe and Jewish man of experience within their family a patriarch. Whether he was her Uncle or a Cousin is up for conjecture.
Do you think she really thought she could be a leader?
However, her parents taught her their religious traditions and then those who were still surrounding her as she grew up after they died and continued to teach her. She was a young girl doing as she was supposed to be following the way of her people and of God.
Then King Ahasuerus, chose her and she became the Queen of Persia. Sometimes you are just thrust into positions you don’t feel ready for… yet you come to realize that God had prepared you for such a task.
Being a leader requires skills that don’t always come naturally with everyone and yet sometimes they really do. If I am one I am still learning how to be more assertive in such a role and I might actually be finding myself working on this a bit more in the coming weeks.
Jewells of Thought 
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