The Great Advantage of Faith in Fantasy with Megan Schaulis

As you're writing this book, how did God kind of speak to you in the writing of a story that's so similar to an Esther story that everybody loves.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

So there were a couple of big things that God spoke to me while I was writing this, and one of them that I knew going in, I wanted to show, and one of them that just blew me away when God plopped that thought into my brain.

So the first one is that our greatest advantage is our relationship with God.

And sadly, I feel like in the world we live, we're often told that our faith is something that we need to be quiet about.

Or it's something that's like, well, that's a personal thing that's just for you.

You do that at home or on Sundays.

But our faith, what I've really, really grasped writing this book is that our faith is the greatest advantage that we have of all.

It is more important than our brains, our intellect, how smart and how strong we are.

It's more important than how fun or how popular or funny we are.

The fact that we are in Christ is bigger than anything and actually has the power to do more for us.

We can go farther as a follower of Jesus than we can as the smartest, coolest person on the planet so that it truly is an advantage.

It's not just a detail of our lives.

It is the power lifting everything up and pushing everything forward.

So that that Lord had kind of really been teaching me before I started writing.

And I knew I wanted to share that.

the thing that he completely dazzled me with that I had not ever thought about was the difference between what the world calls us and what God calls us.

So in the true story of Esther, so she is a Jewish young woman.

in a time where it's not exactly illegal, but it's definitely not popular to be Jewish.

And she, for those who aren't familiar, is actually kind of kidnapped and roped into a competition to become the king's new wife because the king got mad at his old wife and told her she wasn't allowed to be around anymore.

That's actually what it says in the Bible, guys.

It's true.

He got mad and said, done with you.

I'm going to go pick a new one.