Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
October 05, 2022: SOAP #4689: Esther 3-8; Luke 18

SCRIPTURE:  Esther (NIV) 3:5 When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. 6 Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead, Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

OBSERVATION:  Haman had a plan.  His hatred for Mordecai grew to include all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews.  He set a date; he approached the king; the secretaries wrote out a law; the dispatchers carried the letters throughout the kingdom. 

BUT that was not the only plan!!!  God had a plan!  Unknowingly, A young Jewish maiden had been chosen to be queen!  Her uncle told her she had been brought into the kingdom “for such a time as this!”  (4:14) 

It looked like Haman’s plan was on track to succeed.  It was well underway even before the Jews became aware of it.  Haman did not realize that another plan was under way long before he arrived on the scene.  It was an eternal plan designed by Creator God to send a Savior through the Jewish nation for the salvation of all men!!! 

APPLICATION: Satan’s plan against me can never succeed!  God’s plans for me started long before I was born and will continue long after my death.  My physical death will not end my life!   What God has started here will continue in eternity!  Satan may have plans to bother and distress me here on earth, but God will use those very struggles to build my faith and bring glory to HIM.  

PRAYER:   Holy Spirit, help me keep my eyes on the BIG PICTURE!  What you have planned for me far surpasses anything in this life.  While I am here, use me for your glory.  Amen

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