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Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
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Esther 6:1-14

The Lord Jesus, in a short parable, presented the kingdom of God in the following way: "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep . . . " . This is how the book of Esther comes across. The LORD who is not even mentioned once, seems to be asleep. But let us read on – ". . . and rise night and day . . . ". Some verses further on we find the Master of the winds and waves asleep in the back of a ship; yet let us be sure that He never ceased to keep watch over His beloved disciples (Mark 4:26-27; Mark 4:38). Now we see in our chapter the remarkable chain of events in which everything is controlled by God, who does not show Himself openly. The king’s sleeplessness, the book of records which he had read to him, the question which he asked, the exact moment at which Haman entered the court – all directed and regulated like an intricate mechanism by God’s sovereign hand. Sceptics might reckon such a coming together of circumstances to be unbelievable, but we Christians are not surprised by it at all. Having experienced such things many times, we well know the almighty intervention which causes all things to "work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28).

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