God can work out, in, through and around whatever situation we are in, for our good and His greater glory.
But, God won’t accede to our tantrums and diva-like moments. God will not bow down when we decide to act like an Esther.
Remember, Esther means star. So it’s like saying God won’t bow down to our stardom. And it’s true. All that we have is from Him. He is the One who gave us what was needed in order to get there.
Let’s go even further. God doesn’t appreciate it when He takes us from the bottom to the top and yet when we reach the top we’re silent about it and His kingdom. If the kingdom receives no benefit from our being blessed, then we have clearly had a disconnect between our blessing and God’s purposes.
God never blesses us just for us. It’s like what Mordecai said. If God sees that He cannot use you for His kingdom purpose, He will find someone else through whom His delivering power can come.
Matthew 23:11 says, “But the greatest among you shall be your servant.”
But in today’s society, we often elevate our royalty above our service.
Royalty? Oh, you mean as a child of the King.
However, Jesus is looking for servants not celebrities. A truly great person recognizes the unique opportunity he or she has been given and does not forget where that opportunity came from and why it exists.
Wait, what happened with Esther, the Jews and Mordecai?
I mean, does it matter?
I’ve gotten the meaning behind it, but I still want to know what happened.
Okay, season finale.
On that day of Haman’s death, the king gave the house of Haman to Queen Esther, and Mordecai came before the king, as Esther had told the king what his relations to her was. Hence, the king took off his signet ring which he has taken away from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Furthermore, Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Wow, he really deserved it. I think he was my favourite character. He was a real one, wasn’t he? What happened with the Jews?
3 Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept and implored him to avert the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his plot which he had devised against the Jews.4 The king extended the golden scepter to Esther. So Esther arose and stood before the king. 5 Then she said, “If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. 6 For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? (7:3-6).
And so the king gave Esther, and through her, Mordecai, the authority to write to all the provinces in his kingdom, and to the Jews, granting them the “right to assemble and to defend their lives, to destroy, to kill and to annihilate the entire army of any people or province which might attack them”(7:11).
Were the Jews not a minority? Wouldn’t they get slaughtered?
2 The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm; and no one could stand before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples. 3 Even all the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who were doing the king’s business assisted the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them. (9:2-3)
From reality tv to action movie. It’s basically become a Mordecai spin-off.
The Jews go on to slaughter over 75,000 men in their conquest, with Mordecai earning a name for himself within the king’s house and throughout the provinces.
See, when God blesses one person, He can use that person to bless another.
There’s a conversation to be had about Mordecai and Esther’s relationship and how mutually beneficial it was, with God at the centre.
But that’s for another day…
Esther: Complete.
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