AT THE RIGHT MOMENT

“He makes everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11

Greetings to all my precious friends in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It’s always a joy for me to connect with you through these blogs! (Psalm 133:1)

I wanted to share about a book and a character from the Bible which has never ceased to amaze me. The events and happenings of the Book are beyond comprehension, that any person – be it a scholar or student will beyond doubts agree that there will have to be Someone, orchestrating the events so finely, that they were happening in impeccable timing. (Acts 15:18)

As you know the Book of Esther talks about an orphan girl, Hadassah, raised by her uncle after the demise of her parents. I assume she would have had a quiet, unassuming, simple Jewish life in a pagan empire – until the time of the Lord came to pass. (Esther 2:5-8). God Almighty had been waiting for the moment and opportunity to bring this orphan girl to a position and authority to revert the evil that was yet to be determined against His chosen. (Esther 3:4-6)

I’ve often wondered, how far will God go to accomplish and bring to pass what He has determined and planned for His people and every time I do, it indeed gives me goose bumps. (Deuteronomy 6:15.)

It says in Acts 15:18, “Known to God from eternity are all His works” and there is no other story as apt as the Book of Esther to confirm this word. God was moving an entire nation, the province, the king, the administrators, He brought down a queen!! – just for one woman to come to authority, so His divine plan and purpose will come to pass. (Esther 4:13, 14) – yet who knows if you have come to the kingdom to such a time as this?

As I was reading this book in the year 2017 there was one statement that was so strong in my heart and I assure you the same today – If God has a calling and purpose for your life, then be assured that He will bring it to pass! Hallelujah! Receive it in Jesus name!

Secondly, the other moving truth about the Book of Esther is about a God who is working behind the scenes and working in a timing that does not miss a second.

It says in Esther chapter 5 the last few verses of how Haman was counselled by his wife and friends to destroy Mordecai and to have him hanged. Every time I read Esther 6:1, it moves me to tears. It says, “That night the king could not sleep”. I’ve often thought, this sleeplessness had nothing to do with Mordecai or Esther or any human effort. It just so happened that the king could not sleep that night and it just so happened that when the chronicles were being read it had to come to the part where Mordecai had helped the King. The previous chapter was talking about the destruction of the Lord’s anointed, the very next chapter talks about a God moving things to the second, to honour the same! Hallelujah!

It says in Esther 6:4 that when the king was searching for a man to ask counsel as how to honour Mordecai, it says in verse 4 “Now Haman had just entered the outer court…” As the enemy was planning on one side to uproot, destroy and kill (John 10:10) and entering the king’s court to accomplish the same, God was waiting for the same enemy to come and honour His anointed.

It just doesn’t end there – the chapter ends with a warning for the enemy from the very wife and friends who instigated him against the Lord’s anointed. It says in Esther 6: 13, “If Mordecai before whom you have begun to fall is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him”.  The very next statement in the chapter says,” While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared” where his fate awaited.  

The story goes, to Haman being hung on the very gallows he had prepared for Mordecai without the king even having to think about it twice. The whole story is filled with instances that were not planned humanly for a certain outcome – like Mordecai having to come to know of the eunuchs’ plan to kill the king and later the every incident turned to be the point of his honour. Too many incidences were overlapping and intertwining with one on top of the other and greater still for all to happen to the dot, to the second, it seems no one but God was unravelling the story He had already written.

Greater still, than all the above mentioned incidents, there was a fact, a truth which hit me hard. Nothing moved me more than this fact about the book of Esther – as my dad was taking the Bible study at our home once, he said, “For the precision to which things were happening it’s beyond any doubt that God was moving all things and yet throughout the book of Esther not once has the word ‘Lord’ been mentioned.”

For the very first time the sovereignty and the love of God together hit my heart hard. HE was moving all things and yet remained quiet and behind the scenes. It moves me to know the sovereign Lord is still the same – in your life and mine.

It’s truly difficult for me to conclude, as much as the revelation is overwhelming, it’s true.  

It’s clear from the Book of Esther that He has and is and will continue to unravel a story that only He can fulfil.

Waiting to continue the journey with the One who’s got it all already planned.

“For since the beginning of the world,

Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” Isaiah 64:4 Amen.

Jesus loves you.

With prayers,

God’s Love Missions Family.