A favor, please.
"she won favor in his sight,..."
The plots, sub-plots, twists and turns, oh how the characters must have felt, with nail-biting intensity, this reads like a bestselling novel you could find at your favorite bookstore.
Chapter 4 ended with a call to fast and pray and it was through such that Esther won favor in the king's sight. All of them under threat of impending death, actually let's say annihilation, Mordecai, Esther, and the Jews begun fasting. Can you imagine that, praying to God while annihilation is creeping up on you? Setting aside the needs of the body, i.e. food and drink, and probably for many during those three days, sleep, they spent their time in communication with God, not filled with food but the greater need, spiritual food. Praise, worship, and communion with the God of heaven.
1 Corinthians 2:10 "We know these things because God has revealed them to us by His Spirit, and his Spirit searches out everything and shows us even God's deep secrets."
At what point in their fasting did clarity come, although total clarity doesn't always have to come, or at what point did their mourning turn to joy? When God revealed the deep things? Impending death turned to a life of greater abundance and the execution of Mordecai turned to a parade of highest honor for saving the king. Seeking favor in the eyes of men, Haman believed himself to be living the high life, but he was ever drawing near death's door.
Favor in anyone's sight is a gift from God, bow humbly before the giver of all good gifts. Let us seek favor in God's sight always and only, and if He so choose to grant us favor in the sight of men, let us with gratitude, spend that favor wisely, to glorify His name. Be a God pleaser not a man pleaser. Seek God's favor.
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