Here we are, at the start of another week. I can't believe how fast this study has gone. Only a few more weeks and we will be choosing the next study.
Today's lesson really opened my eyes. Reminding me that God is faithful and He cannot break His promises. Sometimes in the normal routine of life, we forget that God is there with us; but He never forgets us. He can use normal situations, like a sleepless night, to get our attention. Maybe He's orchestrated some events that you cannot ignore and you know without a shadow of a doubt that they were from God, showing you what you need to do.
Just like He caused Xerxes to lose sleep and desire to read over the chronicles of his reign, reminding Xerxes that he never honored Mordecai for saving his life. God didn't forget Mordecai or the Jews. He was getting ready to use Xerxes to save them.
We need to open our eyes to the circumstances around us. As His children, we are important to God. As Beth Moore puts it, "Just to know we are significant to God and He's willing to orchestrate a holy set-up to speak to us is monumental to every woman who ever feared she was invisible or unremarkable."
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I love the comment that Beth Moore made in the first lesson. "Sometimes Christ walks through our crisis dressed in the best disguise of all: ordinary events." It makes me think and remember that because I am a Christian, nothing "just happens" in my life- either it is unfolding the way God wants it to according to His plan or it is unfolding because of a selfish choice I made and the consequence of that choice.
Just a thought. Did you know that the Persian Empire was in modern day Iran and Iraq? It's hard to tell exactly on the map since they are so close. I thought it was interesting since Matthew has been to Iraq.
Doesn't it make Esther even more real, when you realize that the same places that we are reading about still exist and we've seen pictures of it. It's amazing. It goes to show that God is everlasting and is still around no matter what government is in authority.
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