More from Esther...

Let me share a little more with you from my study on Esther...

• Sometimes God reserves the right to tell us what happened without telling us how He reacted to it.  God is so wholly secure in His own spotless integrity that He feels perfectly comfortable giving us an account of something without making Himself accountable to us.
• Those of us who know Jesus personally live under divine rule where all us girls get to be princesses anyway.
• Never underestimate the impact of God-driven, Scripture-quickened people skills even in the most uncomfortable human encounters.  Despite the scowled-faced disapproval of the unbearably religious, we neither have to be carnal to be likable nor insincere to be endearing.  We can love God and still be liked by people.  
• One good thing about living in an increasingly crude world is that a woman with manners, even one who simply knows how to make introductions or host gatherings can stand out like a rare gem in a barrel of coal.  God can grant her favor that a woman with a wall covered in credentials may never gain.
• Esther managed to walk the fine line of moderation without making others feel judged because they didn't. 
• Sometimes providence can be defined as times when God trumps your perfectly good plan with one of His own...then seems to disappear from it.  Take heart!  He's right there and He's there right.
• It's tough being a woman in a mean world!
• God is as purposeful in what He doesn't reveal in His Word as in what He does.
• I don't know how God perfects plans that seem so bleak to us in process, but these two things I know:  He never takes His eyes off of us or off the clock ticking over us.
• Every hope and every victory the enemy thinks he has is maddeningly thwarted at the perfect time.  Satan can't win and you can't lose.
• Remember what God has done for you!  Rehearse the story again.
• Let's learn to be thankful every time we feel sorry for even our smallest offense toward someone.  God designed conviction to be uncomfortable so that we'd hurry to repentance and find relief in restoration.  Feeling is a good thing.  Nothing is more frightening than a seared conscience. 
• The same judge who sat on the bench on the day the wrong was committed will be sitting on the bench the day of sentencing.
• It will often be a crisis that God uses to pivot our direction.
• It's tough being a woman thrown a giant sized weight!