SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/11/2011 9:11:16 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “A Day of Disgrace”
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference:
Ester
6:11-14
Message of the verses: “11 So
Haman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on
horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus it
shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor." 12 Then Mordecai
returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head
covered. 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything
that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him,
"If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you
will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him." 14 While they
were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hastily brought
Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.”
When
Haman woke up early on this morning I am sure that he had no idea as to what
this day would bring about. The day
before we saw Haman as a man, who was happy for all of the wrong reasons, those
reasons were that he was going to have Mordecai killed and so that is why the
early morning trip to the palace. Now
when he gets there he finds that there is a new assignment for him and this
began a very bad day in the life of Haman.
We
have seen that after Haman subjects to the king how he should honor a man who
had done something good for the king that he had to be the one who followed his
own orders, but those orders were not the ones he wished to follow for he had
to put the kings robe onto Mordecai and then lead him around on the kings horse
saying “Thus it shall be done to the man
whom the king desires to honor.” This must have taken a good part of the day
for this to happen.
We
see two different men going in different directions and yet after the horse
ride Mordecai just goes back to his job at the king’s gate. This is what could be described as
humility. Dr. Wiersbe says the following
about this: “Applause doesn’t change
truly humble people, for their values are far deeper. God can trust His blessings with the humble
because they seek to honor only the Lord.”
Haman
goes home looking similar to how Mordecai looked when he found out that all of
the Jews were going to be killed after Haman’s law was put into force. When he got home he heard and interesting
statement from his wife that if he would have taken to heart he may have saved his
life. I want to look at her statement
from the Message: “"If this Mordecai is in fact a Jew, your bad luck has only begun.
You don’t stand a chance against him—you’re as good as ruined.’” We have seen a number of different ways that
could have changed the life of Haman if he would have only listened. This is the last lesson he heard, and as the
others he will not listen to it either.
Haman could have gone into the banquet with the king and queen and say
that the law that he helped pass was wrong and repent of it so that something
could be done to stop the slaughter of the Jews, but he did not. Dr. Wiersbe closes this chapter with these
wise words: “When God sounds the alarm,
it pays to stop, look, and listen—and obey.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: When I think of humility I cannot help but
think of the Lord Jesus Christ, for there was no man more humble than Him. The Apostle Paul writes in Philippians
chapter two about the humility of Jesus Christ and I wish to use the Philips
translation here in order to make it clear what he was writing: “5
Let your attitude to life be that of Christ Jesus himself. 6 For he, who had
always been God by nature, did not cling to his privileges as God’s equal, 7
but stripped himself of every advantage by consenting to be a slave by nature
and being born a man. 8 And, plainly seen as a human being, he humbled himself
by living a life of utter obedience, to the point of death, and the death he
died was the death of a common criminal. 9 That is why God has now lifted him
to the heights, and has given him the name beyond all names, 10 so that at the
name of Jesus "every knee shall bow," whether in Heaven or earth or
under the earth. 11 And that is why "every tongue shall confess" that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” There could not be a better example to follow
than what is written here that is having the same attitude as that of Jesus
Christ.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Having the
same humble attitude that Christ had through the power of the Spirit of Christ.
2.
Continue to learn contentment.
10/11/2011 9:50:58 AM
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