We're at the end of another week and the title of this week's lesson couldn't be more fitting, "What Goes Around". This week we studied Haman in depth. I would venture to say that most of us saw ourselves in Haman, even if we don't like to admit it.
Reading over the questions at the beginning of the lesson, they are a quick overview of the week. Why, after 5 years, did God remind King Xerxes that he never repaid Mordecai for saving his life? Why had Haman come to the king's court the night Xerxes couldn't sleep? What suggestions did Haman present to King Xerxes (when he thought he was going to be honored)?
These questions remind me that God knows everything we have done in the past, are doing right now and what we will do in the future. He knew that Haman would try to kill Mordecai, so He waited for the right time to remind the king that he should honor Mordecai.
Haman was a self-righteous, self-centered person, selfish, full of pride and thinking he was God's gift to mankind. Do we ever act that way? Unfortunately, most of us will have at least of these characteristics TODAY, even after we've studied this lesson! We need to ask God for help daily in controlling ourselves and these sins in our lives.
Haman gave the king a list of things he should do for the person the king wanted to honor. Of course, Haman thought he would be the one receiving the honor. Isn't it funny how fast Haman came up with this list? He'd been thinking, maybe daydreaming, about this event for a long time. He had been waiting for the time when the king would see what a wonderful person he was and honor him in front of the whole kingdom. We never think like that, do we?
Isn't it enough that God loves us and sent His Son to die for us? Do we really need the applause of men to feel important?
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You know, at one point in this study, Beth Moore mentions that it's hard to be truthful about ourselves. One thing that this study has opened up to me is that sometimes I am alot like Xerxes. I know we haven't really been study Xerxes but his story is there. It has been so easy to become the unconcerned person that everything happens around. I get up go to work, work with some ungodly co-workers, investigate even more ungodly people who do horrific things to children, come home with the intent that I'm going to relax and do what I want to to be happy and think nothing else about God or what I should do or say to others about Him. I hope this makes sense, I'm on pain medication as I write this! I pray that the Lord continues to open my heart and I don't get lazy or unconcerned that what I have learned is soon forgotten.
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