When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her – Esther 2:15 (NIV)
Esther amazes me sometimes. She was a woman who didn’t exactly have life fall into place the way she probably wanted it to. Her parents had died. That could have left her angry and bitter. Instead, we see her being a woman who was humble and willing to take advice.
She listened to those in charge of her, and took their advice. She didn’t think that she knew better than those over her, instead she listened to what they had to say and acted on it.
I feel like if we were honest, most of us would not respond the way Esther did. If our parents died, we’d be sad, angry and bitter. Also, imagine being taken from your home, and then being forced to marry someone you might not really care about.
All of these things could have made Esther bitter and unhappy. But instead of feeling that way, she chooses to listen to those in charge of her, and ends up being the one the king chose for his wife. She must have really trusted God to still have such a good attitude in the midst of so many things that weren’t really going the way she probably wanted them to.
How about you? Do you face times when you want to get bitter and angry? When things don’t turn out how you’d like them to do you get upset or do you go to God? Do you tell Him the things that trouble you, and trust Him to bring you through?
