Beauty is in the eye of the holder. And everyone who beheld Esther were taken by her beauty. It's been said that beauty is only skin deep. However, that evidently wasn't true with Esther. She apparently radiated with both an inner and an exterior beauty. When it came time to pick a new queen from among the virgins of the king's harem, she out shined them all.
What's really amazing is that Esther goes from Jewish slave girl and orphan to Queen of Babylon. Talk about rags to riches. It's an amazing story. But her rise to queen of the most powerful nation of her day, wasn't an accident or a shrewd political maneuver. It happened by the hand of God which was on her life.
What made Esther so beautiful? Esther's radiance came from within. Her love for God and her obedient relationship with Him shaped her heart, mind, and spirit. Her character, her compassion, her beauty had developed as her faith grew. Her desperate situation as a child had caused her to rely on God. No doubt her cousin, Mordecai, helped to point her to God and His truths. He taught her well. And just like Jesus, Esther grew in wisdom and physical appearance and in favor with God and man.
Because of her faithful obedience and trust in God, He placed her in a position to, in effect, save not only the Jews, but all mankind. Had the Jews been destroyed in her day, Jesus would not have come into the world. She becomes even more radiant to us today, who have never seen her, than to those who gazed upon her beauty.
God, I've always been amazed at Esther's rise to prominence. I've been amazed that even the impossible situation from which she came, she shined with your Shekinah glory. I've been amazed that you ended up offering salvation to the world through the faithful, courageous acts of a slave girl who never lost sight of you. Lord, if you can use a young slave girl with such a tragic background to change the world and affect all of mankind, surely you can use me. I give you my gifts, talents, resources, heart and mind. For all things are possible through you. Here I am. I'm yours, Lord.
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