The book of Esther, at first I was like man I’ve read this book SO many times why do I have to read it 3 times! Well… again (a regular occurrence of pointing out my all knowing side) Christ was like (cough cough) so dD lets read it three times in different translations. Each time I read a new perspective, deeper things, more understanding, and greater clarity came!
Gods work, do we think we have to define it, put his name on it, give him credit, and have any part in it at all? Esther is a very unique book of scripture for one very large fact; it is the ONLY book not to have the name of God in it. The book doesn’t NEED it! The story of Esther is profound, without mentioning the name of God, you know he is the one behind the work; you don’t have to bring up the “religious” side of a story, or write one that is telling the works of God. The work of God SCREAMED out from the book of Esther. The very story speaks of Gods amazing sovereignty. This was not something that just the Jews knew-
Esther 6:13 (NLT) “When Haman told his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends what had happened, his wise advisers and his wife said, Since Mordecai this man who has humiliated you is of
Jewish birth, you will never succeed in your plans against him. It will be fatal to continue opposing him.”
It was truth, they knew.
Our God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow (Hebrews 13:8)
This means this God, with the power to use a girl who was used at first just for sex, to save a nation, to prevent another one of Satan’s attempts to prevent the savior from coming. But just Mordecai’s reply to Esther
“Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed.
If you keep quiet at a time like this,
deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just
such a time as this?” Esther 4:13-14
Mordecai knew that God had this one under control, that no matter Esther’s choice (she did have a choice)
God would save his nation!
Many more thoughts, verses, concepts, parallels, and ideas I could pull out but I will end with this verse
“If I must die, I must die.”- Queen Esther (Esther 4:16)
-FOR OUR LIFE IS NOT OUR OWN-
~dD~
