Your rightful place

The word of God really amazes me, it amazes me now even more when I have been praying and desiring for its fresh revelation and understanding. I was in church today and the Pastor was talking about obedience and all the benefits of obedience. It was awesome and I must say that I got it so clear that the key to any form of success and prosperity is obedience to the word of God, full obedience. It is very important that you understand that, so to have a taste of our today’s sermon, please read Deuteronomy 28 and Joshua 1:8-9. Well, I wasn’t writing to give our today’s sermon-the Pastor already did that. I am writing to share about something that crossed my mind when the sermon was going on. That is the story of Mordecai and Haman in the book of Esther.

The book of Esther talks about the story of the girl Esther, a young girl without parents but who rose up to become a queen in a foreign land and how she saved the Israelites from being destroyed by an enemy. At least that is how most of us see it. However, today God revealed to me how He can transform things and place us where we should be, by getting rid of our enemies and placing us in our rightful places where the enemy may be standing. Just like God, the enemy knows clearly where we belong. Many times, he can decide to take our place and let us keep a distance but at a close watch so that he may destroy us if he detects that we are getting wise and trying to get closer to our rightful position.

When I talk about this, I refer to the story of Mordecai and Haman. Mordecai was a gate keeper at the palace, who had at one time exposed a plot to assassinate the king. Haman however, was a man who had rose up to become greater than all the royals in the palace except the king and who had had all people bow before him in kinda like worship. I say worship because he was so angry when Mordecai didn’t bow before him, that he sought to destroy him and all is people. That is what someone drank of power wants to do when he notices someone who doesn’t submit to him, to destroy. Haman plotted to destroy the Israelites by persuading the king to sign a law that would have them killed and Mordecai by having him hanged on a gallows that he had prepared. However, things changed and everything became what it was supposed to be.

God came out strongly to put His people where they were supposed to be, to lead, not to be slaves nor be destroyed like the enemy (devil) had been plotting through Haman. On the night before the day Haman had plotted to kill Mordecai, the king could not sleep. Why? Because God was at work and there was no way the king would sleep unless the work was complete. God had begun restoring His people to their rightful places. The king remembered about a conspiracy that had been made to kill him and that the man who had exposed it had never been honored. The king could not sleep until that person had been honored. The books of the chronicles had to be searched until when the person was known. (That is what God does; He never lets our good deeds get forgotten.) The king then called for Haman to have Mordecai honored just when he was about to destroy him. Haman was destroyed instead and Mordecai replaced him and both Mordecai and the people of God went back to where God had desired for them to be, to rule.

Things change, the enemy may seem to be there, just hanging there, where you belong for a long time, but soon he will be gone. Don’t try to use evil means to get what is yours. Just pray and trust in God always. Mordecai would have maybe chosen to bow to a human and that would keep him and is people. However, he chose to do right, to do good by protecting the king which was his duty and to worship God alone. He understood that only God could help them and restore them to their place. So today I want you to realize that you can get to where you must be without bowing to evil but by trusting in God. The enemy won’t be in your place forever. He will soon leave through the power of God and you can have what is rightfully yours.

God bless you and keep growing in Him.