Esther 4
To please his favourite, the king had doomed all the Jews to destruction: we can imagine the universal distress which it created.
Esther 4:1, 2
He felt as if he had been the cause of the overthrow of his people, since it was for his sake that Haman had determined to massacre every one of them.
Esther 4:3
As well they might, since they were all doomed to die by the sword. The Lord’s people were in great jeopardy.
Esther 4:9
Evidence of the great danger of her race was supplied to her both by word of mouth and by the copy of the decree which she could read for herself. No one could now help the poor doomed nation but Esther; for her it would be a dangerous task, and she had no great measure of that high all-daring faith which had dwelt in some of her ancestors. Her position as queen, in an alien court, was not one which fostered the highest form of spiritual life.
Esther 4:10-14
Mordecai was sure that God would deliver his people in some way or other, and he warned Esther that if she missed the honour of being her nations deliverer, she would not herself escape, for the king’s edict would operate even in the palace.
Esther 4:17
If they would pray for her, she would venture. Surely, if she thus plucked up courage to approach a hasty, imperious tyrant, no penitent sinner need fear to come to God by Jesus Christ.
Thy church through every past alarm
In thee has found a Friend
And, Lord, on thine Almighty arm
We now for all depend.
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