And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 4:3
When it seems darkest, it really isn’t because God is in control! In a world where human wickedness runs freely, there will be times of extreme peril. It can get dark. This is exactly what happened as Haman’s plot to eradicate the Jews in Persia was made public. Official government policy was set by the king himself to see the end of the Jewish minority in Persia. It looked impossibly final. But God’s people brought their fear and pain to God. And God had already, well in advance of all this, strategically and sovereignly taken steps to ensure a deliverer was in place.
The reminder of this truth puts perspective on all uncertainty. Nothing is ever uncertain with God. Nothing surprises Him. No action of any human institution will overrule the complete, sovereign purposes of Almighty God! Haman may have hatched a conspiracy of hate. But God already had a secret victory in place to destroy what seemed inevitable.
And so we trust God in all that is unknown to us. Just as Esther was already placed to be the bold deliverer of the Jews in Persia at an awful moment, so Jesus is already here to keep His kingdom advancing despite cultural moves against God’s people. We may grieve over our painful experiences and mourn what looks like loss to us, but we can trust that absolutely nothing will prevail against our King!
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