A Beautiful Girl, Esther 2:7

This post concerns a beautiful girl, Esther, who became the queen of Ahasuerus, the Medo-Persian ruler.

A  Beautiful Girl describes the circumstances that Esther experienced while saving the Jews from extinction.

Mordecai cared for a beautiful girl, his cousin, Esther 2:7. “The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.”

When Esther won the nationwide beauty contest, she became Ahasuerus’ queen. Mordecai went every day to the Harem gate to learn about Esther.

Meanwhile, Mordecai learned of a plan to murder Ahasuerus by two of the Eunuchs that guarded the gate to the king’s palace. He told Esther about the plot, and she informed the king in the name of Mordecai. The two eunuchs were arrested and subsequently hanged.

Then, the king elevated one of his officials, Haman, to a place of honor and ordered everyone to bow to him. However, Mordecai refused.

This angered Haman so much that he formed a plan to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, because Mordecai was a Jew.

This caused wide-spread fear among the Jews. But no one knew that Esther was a Jew. Mordecai urged her to appeal to the king and warned her of the problem of silence, Esther 4:14. “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Esther finally told Ahasuerus, the king, who had Haman executed by hanging. Then a law was passed that the Jews could defend themselves. So, they were saved.

This story has an important lesson for us. Like Esther, we may be in some place doing something that we do not know about in order to teach the gospel to someone. God can use us to accomplish unusual things we do not expect.

Let us exert faithfulness wherever we find ourselves, because we may reside in some unusual place for His purposes.

So, what did we learn?

1.God used Esther, a beautiful girl, to save the Jews.

2.God may use us wherever we live.

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