4:13 True Identity Esther honored Mordecai by not disclosing her Jewish identity. Consequently, she didn’t immediately realize Haman’s plan threatened her, too. There may be times and places in which it is wise not to overtly identify ourselves as Christians, but we should never fool ourselves into believing that we need to claim Christ only when it is convenient.
4:14 Promised Deliverance Perhaps Mordecai remembered the story of how Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac but God provided a ram in Isaac’s place (Gen 22) or of how God miraculously saved his people from the hands of Pharaoh (Exod 14). Whether or not Mordecai thought of these instances of deliverance, he lived in the knowledge of God’s promise-keeping ways; he had great faith in God’s power to deliver his people one way or another.