When God is silent - Esther 1-5

Some crazy stuff going on in Susa!  Drunken kings, deposed queens, virgin beauty pageants, murder plots, Jews stuck in foreign lands, plots to murder an entire race of people.  Man!  This is a mess!  Sounds like a great plot for a movie, but not something I'd want to live through.  But, this is what happens when mankind is left to their own devices.  I've often said that our history is full of wars over lines in the dirt.  That's how stupid we are some times.

And, where is God during all this?  That is the great question of this book.  All of these events are unfolding, and get even more exciting as we will see tomorrow, and God isn't even mentioned.  There is absolutely NO reference to God in this entire book.  It has cause some throughout Jewish and Christian history to question whether this book should even be in the Bible.

But, here is where our understanding of providence shines through.  We know that God is ALWAYS involved.  There is never a time that God isn't working.  Jesus even said, "My Father is working until now".  He meant that, even when you can't see it, God is at work.  The situations we read about in the book of Esther unfold that way because God is working through them to bring about a greater weight of glory.

The same is true in your life.  Sometimes it feels like God isn't there.  Like He has left the building.  Well, the book of Esther is here to tell us that God is there.  He hasn't left.  When you are at your lowest point, feeling farthest away from God, and can't see the light in the darkness, He is there!  He is active.  He is working.  He will NEVER leave you or forsake you.  Don't give up on Him because He never walks away from you!