PURSUING KING'S FAVOR

 

DEVOTIONAL READING:

Scripture Reading~ Esther 7:1-10

Esther 7:3 Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.

Haman, who enjoyed in the king's favor as his most powerful  official,  was excited with the invitation to feast again with Queen Esther and the king. However, in the previous day he had additionally 

persevered of  the shame  of openly honoring  his enemy  Mordecai, who had likewise found favor with the king (Esther 6).Soon Haman would have an even greater surprise.

This man who was plotting to annihilate every one of the Jews in Persia had no clue about that Queen Esther was additionally a Jew and a relative of Mordecai. What’s more, if anyone had the king’s favor, it was Esther, and she used her position shrewdly to advocate for her people. “If I and my people were only sold as slaves, I would not have disturbed you,” she tells the king, in effect, “but this vile Haman wants to annihilate us.”  As the king's favor turns to rage against him, Haman realizes his main possibility is to ask Esther for his life.

Xerxes' horrendous power could snuff out Haman's life. All things considered, the king  of Persia would be God's instrument against this foe of the Jews.

Dreading a king's power is smart, even wise. Yet, dreading the God who has control over body and soul is more wiser (Matthew 10:28).