Esther...

So last week I was having a hard time having quiet time, just so much going on. My evenings and mornings were being consumed by things, people and everything else but alone time with Jesus. But this morning was so good, and I feel so much more refreshed and ready to take on the world! Well, at least Costa Rica for a month. But okay, back to Esther. God told me to read Esther, a story I have read before, watched a movie about before, quite frankly, I knew a lot about. But isn't that how God is? He loves to show us new things in the things we think we know a lot about!

So Esther Chapter One. King Xerxes calls for his beloved queen, Queen Vashti. He wants to promenade his beautiful, gorgeous, out-right hotty-totty wife to his friends and community. But she refused. WHAT?! Refuse the king? NEVER! He conferred with counsel, and they said in a few short sentences to banish her from his sight. Ooh. Ouch. Gotta find a new queen now.

Okay, but stop. Before you go thinking about Esther and everything she did for "such a time as this"...we can't skip over what the allegoric reference (big words-I know) in the first chapter.

God, OUR King, is calling for us to come out and promenade before His friends and community. But we're refusing...so what does He do?! He finds a suitable bride, a new queen to take her place. Do you see it? Really? Do you see how God wants to brag about us? He wants to show us off in all the decadence that He knows how...but we refuse. Ouch. Humans can be so dumb sometimes.

God is calling us to be His. To be in His Royal Family. To wear the Crown of Life! Wear it, and wear it proud.

I hope this blessed you today.

Blessings,
Kelley <><