Bibledoorajar Sees Jehovah Honor a Commitment to His HIdden One

"Guide me O Thou Great Jehovah

Pilgrim through this barren land,

I am weak but Thou art mighty.

Hold me with Thy powerful hand..."

     Esther had now been summoned to the inner court. The king was pleased to see her. Esther had been true to her God and now her powerful God had given her power with the king. So impressed was the king with her that he offers her the solution to her problem up to half his kingdom. She could have told him her problem immediately, but a still small voice gave her another thing to say. What she said took place on the third day of the people's fast. This triangle of prayer days formed a solidly complete prayer request before a solidly complete Godhead. Now, He put words into Esther's mouth: "If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet I have prepared for the king." The king turned immediately to his attendants and asked them to go and tell Haman to come and come quickly to the banquet just as Esther had requested. There would be three people at the banquet: Esther, the king and Haman. While one of them would be hidden there by God, another would be hidden by the enemy of God and His people. The king knew nothing of these characteristics at that point. One was there to do the will of the Great Jehovah and one was there to do the will of the great counterfeiter. 

      The Bible says that we can come freely before the king, but it also says the accuser of the brethren can come too. But we know that Lucifer was cast out of heaven, so how does he show up? He shows up in personalities like Haman who are devoted to criticism, and other evil desires against people who follow the Three in heaven.  Jesus told a parable about the wheat and tares. He told his disciples that they would remain together until the end and then the tares would be destroyed. We certainly don't want to appear before the king displaying any of these characteristics! That would make us an accuser of the brethren before the king. Let us rather choose to love one another and build each other up! I stand before the king challenged to do better. Recently, I heard a young Christian college student tell that her professor was going to give her a failing grade because the professor said she had missed too many classes. While the student felt this was not true, she did not accuse the professor. Rather she agreed to come to class seven additional times as the professor directed. Interestingly, the professor asked the class members to tell how they had been impacted positively in life. Over and over, the Christian's classmates gave honor to Jesus Christ as to how He had impacted them positively. Our student ended up being blessed. She would have missed out on so much if she had chosen to be a bitter accuser.

"Songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee,

Songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee."

William Williams, 1745