November 22, 2013 – Esther 2 – 3

Everyone has heard the saying “sex sells”.  Well, God seems to have used it too.  God knew what was coming for the Jews and was setting out a plan to save them.  In order to do this, he had to set a queen in position to stop the king’s decree.  So, he sets up Esther, obviously the most beautiful women in the group to pick from.  I took from the selection process that there was a grooming ordeal to make the girls ready for the king, but Esther did not need it and was more beautiful on her own.  God used her beauty to win the king, thus saving the people.  Obviously, today’s commercial world uses sexuality in a much more inappropriate way (Michelle says we can never go to Hardees again), but the idea of using beauty to get something, just another tool God can use to His plan.

You would think that Hitler might have read Esther and seen the results of trying to exterminate the Jews and noted that all attempts to do so usually bring about the demise of the person trying to accomplish it.