this is a paper i wrote for school. Not to shabby for only taking 2 days ;)
Esther 2:2b “let all beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.”
Every young girl dreams to be a princess! Esther on the other hand didn’t, but she was sought to be a queen! The beginning of her mission started by preparations, at a early age her uncle taught her to love God as a father. The next step of her mission was to become the wife of the king! The last thing was to use her position as a wife to get the decree to be lifted off of the Jews.
Esther’s parents both died, leaving her to her cousin Mordecai! Mordecai was a scribe, he taught Esther all about Jesus and brought her up in the Jewish faith! She was in love with Jesus as her savior! God was raising her to be a queen! While Vashti the Queen of the land disobeyed her husband the king, she was thrown out of the palace and the land. The King sent out his enoch in search for young beautiful virgins! Esther was taken to the king for preparation!
The next step in Esther’s life wasn’t as easy as you must think. Getting prepared to go in front of the king and being a jew was like a country girl being ordered to go in front of the president of the USA! Preparations took half of a year! They soaked their skin into oils to make a fragrance on their skin, they were dressed in great silver and gold. But what they really wanted they couldn’t have, their families. These girls were young ladies from all over the land being stripped away from all they knew! They only had each other and the enochs! When the preparations were done it was time to face the king.
Facing the king was probably the most terrifying thing these young virgins ever did! But for Esther she sought comfort in her Lord! When they were facing the king he found favor in Esther, taking her as his wife! While they were getting married Haman the King’s right hand man was mixing up a decree to get the Jews hanged. Mordecai came to Esther secretly and told her of the awful news of her people! Mordecai told her there was only one thing for her to do, get the king to stop the decree.
How could she do this? The only thing to do was to go straight to him but there was one problem. If you showed up before the King unannounced you were killed. With the strength of Jesus she did just that. She asked the king if he and Haman would come join her for dinner. The king found so much favor in her that he didn’t kill her and even came to dinner! This happened three times. On the third she told her king about her people the jews and told him what Haman was doing! With the love of Esther the king took away the decree and made a new one which was all of Haman’s family would be hanged on the same gallows that he had ready for the Jews! The mission of Esther was complete.
Through all of this Esther loved Jesus with all her heart. She could have been killed on many occasions. But death was not something she was scared of. The mission of Esther could not be complete without Jesus Christ in her life. We may not be asked by Jesus to be a queen or to save your people from gallows. We have been asked to save the souls of our friends and acquaintances! Esther could have been killed, luckily we will never be killed so what are we afraid of? A harsh reply? If that’s all we are afraid of maybe we need to follow Esther’s lead and let Jesus rule our whole life’s?
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