*🙏The Word Daily Devotion 🙏*
(Global Evangelical Church)
*📖MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES*
👉(Reading: Esther 4:12-17)
🗓Tuesday, August 25
📜If you keep quite at a time like this, deliverance for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. What’s more, who can say but that you have been elevated to the palace for just such a time as this? *Esther 4:14 (NLT)*
📋Esther was a beautiful Jewish orphan girl raised by her cousin, Mordecai. By divine design, Esther whose nationality was unknown was chosen to replace Vashti as Queen of Persia (v.17). The all-knowing God must have known the end of the Jews from the beginning of their sojourn in Persia. God allowed Mordecai to overhear a death plot against the king, informing Esther, thus saving king Ahasuerus’ life (2:21, 23). This act of Mordecai was chronicled but forgotten. However, hatred for Mordecai led to racial hatred and annihilation plan against the Jews by Haman. The Jews needed to be delivered. Mordecai said to Esther, “who can say but that you have been elevated to the palace for just such a time as this”. Esther acted by calling for prayer and fasting. God ensured Ahasuerus is unable to sleep, calls for the record of chronicles and is reminded of unpaid reward for Mordecai. Action is taken, Mordecai is promoted to replace Haman who was hanged, and the Jews were saved. In all this, God was weaving a lesson on sovereignty from the threads in their lives. The victims become victors. Do not fear. No matter what people plan against you, only God’s purposes will stand
_*🛐Meditation And Prayer:*_ Lord, let me trust in your sovereignty and not fear man’s plans against me.
_*📚Further Reading:*_ Psalm 115:3; Daniel 4:17; Romans 8:28
_*🔑Key Lesson:*_ Deliverance comes from God only.
_*◼The Bible in one year:*_ Ezekiel 9-12
Amen!