Spending Wisely

Job 7:6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.” When I was a junior camper, my mother gave me-as best as I can recall-one dollar per day. She didn’t trust me with all six dollars at one time! I know the value...

Leaving

Esther 10:3 “For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.” Do you love to leave? Maybe it comes from the...

To the Contrary

Esther 9:1 “Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it...

God’s Timing

Esther 6:4  “And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.” When my daughter was ten years old, she asked...

Hung Up

Esther 5:14 “Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing...