WITNESS
5-5-13
STANDING UP FOR HER PEOPLE
THE STORY OF ESTHER
Esther’s story
Is written
Between 485 and 435 BC
Covering a period of ten years
And takes place
In the king’s palace
In Susa ,
the Persian capital
When King Xerxes
Requests seven eunuchs
To bring Queen Vashti-in her royal crown
Queen Vashti refuses to come
King Xerxes issues a royal
decree
That Vashti-is never again
To enter into the king’s presence
Thus Queen Vashti is demoted
And a search for a new queen
Was begun
Esther was one of the girls
Applying to be the new queen
Esther eventually
Was chosen
But she kept secret her Jewish heritage
Haman-
An evil advisor to the king
Plans to
Exterminate the Jewish faith
But Esther
Has the faith and courage
To carry out the plan
Of her wise cousin-Mordecai
And risks her very life
Which results
In the deliverance
Of the Jewish people
God BLESSED Esther
With much physical beauty
But it is
The beauty of her heart
THAT SETS HER APART
TO GOD
It is NOT by chance
That this Jewish girl
RISES from obscurity
To become queen
Of the most powerful empire
In the world
Would you have
That courage
Would I
To step forward and declare your nationality
When it could bring about
Our very death
It just goes to show
That sometimes
God has BIGGER PLANS
For us
Than we have for ourselves
Sometimes
GOD puts us in position
Of leadership
So we can influence others
And that God
Sometimes uses ordinary people
To accomplish extraordinary things
Isn’t this
What happened to Jesus
People couldn’t believe that Jesus
THE CARPENTER’S SON
Was THE CHRIST
People knew his parents
And he had
NO formal Theological schooling
IN THE WAYS OF GOD
SO WE KNOW
If we stick to the truth
As Jesus did
As Esther did
When ALL looks lost
GOD WILL NEVER ABANDON US
In fact
He will MAKE MORE from us
Than we could ever have done for ourselves
ESTHER-queen of Persia
STANDING UP for her people
Robert P. Wallman
1-17-13
Ps WITNESS 5-5-13
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me
with favor and thinks
It is the right thing to do-and if he is pleased with me-let
an order be written
Overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the
Agagite, devised
And wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people-
How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”
Ester to King Xerxes in Esther 8:5-6
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