the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Esther 5:1-14
It is a time of darkness and terror for Mordecai’s people! Just one small hope remains – Esther’s intercession with her royal husband. At all events the risk is great! Access from the palace court is forbidden and besides, how can anyone hope to turn back the proud monarch from a decision he has already made! And yet the miraculous happens – God inclines his heart to mercy. But what a contrast between Ahasuerus and Him of whom the Hebrew epistle speaks, assuring us that He is fully able to sympathise with our weaknesses, adding, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need" (Hebrews 4:15-16).
As Mordecai had foreseen (Esther 4:14), it was for this special service that divine providence had placed Esther on the throne. Has not every Christian girl likewise a quite clear service to perform in the place where the Lord has put her?
The end of the chapter shows us that none of the honours bestowed upon Haman was able to soften the implacable hatred brooding within his heart.
