Esther 2:8-18
Gleanings
Queen Vashti’s disobedience caused her throne to be vacant; she was put aside and a search started for someone else.
Some young virgin women became fortunate by selection to enter into the palace. An opportunity that would have otherwise be non existent.
These young women amidst others were offered a fair chance to become queen. A status they never laboured for.
They only had to meet the requirement of 12 months of preparation to qualify them to meet with the King.
It appears these young women lost sight of the only reason that enabled them come to the palace.
They were presented with whatever they requested after their 12 months was completed before going unto the King. But the preparation seemed merely as an external exercise.
Their appetites; shallow character; passions; ambitions were tested and it seemed they saw an opportunity to satisfy their lusts.
None of them found favor with the King; they were sent to the other house as concubines, the living dead; women who may never fulfil their destiny or call etc.
They started off as young virgins but ended up as discarded and displaced concubines.
What About You?
Was it not grace that
hand picked you, out of many other who were wallowing in darkness?Was it not grace
that afforded you, a nobody, the privilege to enter into Light?
Was it not grace that
upgraded your status from a sinner, to one whom the Lord will allow to touch His
Work and become His Bride?
His only request is
that you de-clutter? That you make sure this is simply not an external exercise.
That when you are tried and tested- Your only request is Christ, No more, No less!That when presented
with an open cheque - ALL traces of the old nature (sin, sinful habits and the
world system) finds no root or resting place in you.
May my one and only
desire be, to gain Christ, nothing else will do.De-cluttering must
empty me of the man of sin; the products of sin and the habitation where sin
reigns! Only then will I find favour before my KING!!!!
Prayer Points
- Jesus, be my focus, my goal and my inheritance. Help me never to forget the reason I was born again and called to de-cluttering:- to be made fit for my KING and prepared for holy use.
- My de-cluttering must not merely be an external exercise but a progressive renewing of the mind until I look like Jesus.
- Let the proof of my de-cluttering be a progressive emptying of Self; hatred of Sin and Sinful Habits and death to the World System.
- Grant me grace like Esther who post de-cluttering requested nothing but what the King’s eunuch advised.
- Let nothing of the World have any root in me. May I genuinely only hunger and thirst for righteousness.
- Forbid it Lord, that post de-cluttering; I will still be discarded.
- Lord!, I want nothing else than to be ready when the bridegroom comes!!
- Lord, help my life so that at the end I will gain and inherit Jesus. Let the privilege given me of a divine heart transplant not be wasted or abused.
