Thursday, 20 December 2012

Esther (Nine) Counter Evil

Good morning

The story of Esther reads like a modern day movie where the villains’ plans backfire on them. The movie makers must have learnt from the LORD, for He really arranged for Haman to be properly exposed. When I read Esther chapter seven I just had to laugh again at how clever the Lord worked things out to the benefit of the righteous, who seek His face in times of trouble.

King Xerxes walked out of the room just at the right moment to give Haman an opportunity to get into the position the LORD needed him to be, in order to support Esther’s claim. He then walked back into the room again just at the right moment. There is no such thing as coincidence – just God-incidence. I believe many of the difficult modern day crimes that were solved, many inconsistencies ‘accidently’ discovered, bright ideas that make life easier and get the gospel out, such as television and the Internet, and so on had the LORD and the angels under His command involved. “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being,” (Revelation 4:11).

The question is what classifies as ‘all things’. How about the bad things? Man is capable of horrible feats and we have much evidence of it. We only have to look at weaponry, war vehicles and armoury, certain perverted tools, and so on to wonder about my statement. How about television and the Internet with its sexual; and in many ways insane and evil programs and websites – how could that have been created by the LORD?

We have two factors here – man and Satan. Man has received the ability to create, but that ability came from God and is directed by the LORD as He wishes, sometimes without the awareness from man as to His intentions. But man also has his own will and has therefore the ability to pervert what the LORD intended to be beautiful. Satan has no ability to create. There is the little joke that Satan tried to create a bird and ended up with a fly and a mosquito. All he can do is kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10) and he instigates man to pervert all the good things that God created. If you look at anything that is bad, you will find it has a good origin or a good alternative purpose.

The Lord allowed Israel to be carried off by the Babylonians to be a light to the foreign nations, a form of evangelism to show off His power and glory though His people. Haman was instigated by Satan to counter this ingenuous plan, but the LORD, though His faithful people, exposed Haman.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men,” (Matthew 5:13). What does salt do? It makes a difference. To learn more about this you may want to have a look at http://saltprayeroffensive.blogspot.co.uk/. In the same way that Esther and Mordecai teamed up with the Lord to return the bad, which Satan attempted to create, to the good that God originally created, we need to team up with the LORD to do the same as Salt of the Earth (see mentioned article).

We really need to change our religious ‘bless-me-Lord’ attitude into an attitude of being available when the Lord needs a soldier to counter darkness, together with Him, through prayer and obedience.

Thank you, Lord, for showing me when you need me.

Thank you Lord that your Word went out from your mouth, via your servant’s pen, and it will not return to you empty, but will accomplish what you desire and achieve the purpose for which you sent it.

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