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| Unmentioned...God Still Remains |
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| Sunday, 05 July 2009 14:53 | |
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I've been preaching from Esther for the last few weeks. If you want to see the sermons, they're available in the sermon area. Esther is an interesting book. It is the only book of the Bible which does not explictly mention God. The remarkable thing about this is that God's intervention is so obvious throughout the book that the failure to mention that it is God who is doing all of these things becomes blatant.
As I think about it though, God's working in any person's life goes unmentioned, much like in the book of Esther, even though the miracles that He performs in our lives are no less than those that He performs for Esther, Mordecai, and the Jewish people.
It really is a matter of perspective. And the beginning of a right perspective starts with understanding that the One True God, the One Who spoke the world into existence, has complete control of every aspect of His creation. That includes you and me.
There is no such thing as luck.
There is no such thing as coincidence.
There is only God, His workings, and the direct and indirect results of His actions upon us.
Jesus tells us in Matthew 10:29-31 that a sparrow does not fall apart from the Father's will.
That is the level of detail that God manages to, in the universe in which we exist.
If you read Esther from this perspective, a perspective well understood by God's chosen people, then the entire book is a memorial to God's absolute glory, and an indictment of man's onerous pride.
In the book of Esther, the writer does not mention God but he does so in a context that forces us to look for God, after all it is a book in the sacred canon of both the Jewish and the Christian faith.
God must be there!
So we look, and God shows us how He acts in ways both large and small.
So how come we forget that our lives are merely an extension of that same sacred story?
How do we forget that, like the characters in Esther, we all have a part to play in the same story that started some 6,000 years ago?
The failure to mention God in Esther is a mechanism for emphasizing that He is everywhere.
Our failure to mention God in our lives is not!
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