(Second part)
Memory verse: (Isaiah 66:8) " Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children "
God can change the course of your life in a day. Joseph woke up one morning a prisoner and the same day evening he was a prime minister in the greatest kingdom of his days. His days of suffering and waiting were many, but his turning moment came only in one day. Mordecai walk up one morning with death hanging over his head, but by the same day evening he was wearing a crown. The book of Esther has one of the great stories of God’s wonder working ways. It's a book in which God is not mentioned at all, not even the Holy Spirit or angels, not even a dream not even a prophet. Yet it records one of the greatest works God ever done to uplift the Jews.
The Jews had been suffering from the days when God took them to Babylon. Seventy years of captivity were over, but it was not yet over with the children of Israel. They were still scattered in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Persia and were still under the rule of that worldwide empire. God’s time to lift them from slavery came. Their turning moment had come. God’s time to show them mercy had come. And God had his own plan to bring this to pass. It was a plan where God played the central role, as a film star, yet invisible and silent. Nowhere in the Bible God ever worked so silently and incognito yet so mightily. The whole drama starts with God divinely positioning Mordecai, a Jew, in the gate of the king’s palace. And this central figure in the drama had raised up a girl who was an orphan, Esther. Then God worked a way to remove Vashti from the palace as a first lady and replaced her with Esther who was a Jew. The drama proceeds with God causing the king to promote Haman. When Haman was exalted, every one had to bow to him but Mordecai refused and this caused Haman to get angry and sought a way to destroy all Jews. He wrote letters to all provinces for killing the Jews. When Mordecai learned this plot, he wept and asked Esther to do something. They prayed and fasted and God moved and turned things around. Haman was hanged and the Jews were delivered. Mordecai took up Haman’s position. And all Jews were saved. They became great, no longer slaves but rulers in the kingdom.
Tomorrow we will learn ‘ Your turning point’
