Insights From Esther

I just finished reading the book of Esther. It is a unique book in that God isn't mentioned through the book and there are no references to worship or devotion to God. However, you can see God working through the people in the story and that He is in control of human history.

The story is about a Hebrew woman named Eshter who becomes Queen of the Persian Empire after the King named Ahasuerus deposes of his wife Vashti after she disses him. After which he searches the land for a new queen holding a huge party and comes across the attratctive Esther. She hides her Jewish hertigae from the King but is soon forced into action. Her uncle Mordecai who serves in the King's court draws the ire of Haman who is promoted in the King's court as well when Mordecial refuses to bow to him.

As a result Haman plots the extermination of the Hebrew people and builds a gallows reserved to execute the people. Esther and Mordecai get wind of this plot and attempt to intervene. Esther helps save the genocide of her people. She sets up a banquet where Haman is invited. Haman after being unwittingly caught in a comprising position with Eshter is executed on the gallows he build. After this the decree is reversed and Mordecial is given Haman's position in the Kingdom.

This book shows how God sometimes will work through the most unusual circumstances and through the least likely of people to accomplish His will (In the Persian Kingdom through a couple of Hebrew exiles). How He will intervene when His anointed are threatened and punished the wicked. But most importantly how while we don't see in our lifes or don't feel He is there that He is actually working in each of our lifes.

I saw this book as an example of God will work in our lifes in an indirect way and He will not always do ways the way we want but will get us to where he wants us. Also, how He has a use for each of us regardless of our background and where we are in the world if we allow Him to do so. He has a plan for our lives we just have to listen and obey.