I read Esther 3-6 today.
I was wondering what I could take from it to apply to my own life. I really wanted to read to the end of the book and finish the story; the end seemed more applicable. But then I realized that that’s often the hardest part. Being in the middle of the story.
We hate tension. We hate loose ends. God designed us to long for culmination, to long to see the story end. But we live in the middle of the story. We are frustrated by all the loose ends in our life…the conflict with so-and-so, the daily grind of a job we don’t like, the health issue, the unanswered prayer, the person we keep praying for.
The beauty is that while we live in the “already but not yet” of both the kingdom of Christ and the details of our daily life, we can trust that just as God was at work in the life of Esther, He is at work in ours.
During the few days as Esther differed telling the King of Haman’s plot, God was very active. Haman built his gallows, the king had a sleepless night, which prompted him reading stories, and realizing he had never rewarded Mordecai.
Often when we feel like nothing is happening, that is when God is the most active.
