Mordecai's Trust In YHWH

Today we are going to be looking at two different stories in the Bible. I am going to start in Esther 2. We are going to discuss to some of the important parts that we need to know what is going on in that context. Then We are going to move to 1 Samuel where we are going to see a story of David and then I am going to tie it all together

Esther 2:19-23

Esther 2:19–23 LEB

When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her, just as when she was brought up by him. In those days Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired to assassinate King Ahasuerus. And the matter became known to Mordecai and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told it to the king in the name of Mordecai. And the matter was investigated and found to be so; and the two of them were hanged on the gallows, and it was written in the scroll of the events of the days before the presence of the king.

So the virgins are once again gathered. This was not to declare a queen this was because he was growing his Harem. The Bible doesn’t tell us why it even has this line in it. But for me. From My Perspective it reminds us exactly who this King is. The primary focus of the passage is that he is a fool. but We can’t forget that this is a dangerous fool, that we would consider evil in our eyes. So when it says that He heard the two Eunuchs that were angry it was easy to see that they probably had every right to be angry with this king.

Mordecai is at the gate of the king. The gate is a common place for meetings and or business. He could have been at the gates for various reasons, such as business, to exchange or overhear information (if his official role required it) or to be close to Esther without raising suspicion. But it is my understanding that only the government officials and Judges “Sit at the gate”. Not just him being lazy he is working.

While he is working he hears these two conspire to Assassinate the king

At this moment Mordecai has a choice. He can let the king die or not. We know what he does but He has a choice. remember this is what we would call a very evil man. It’s kind of like that question if you had a chance to kill Hitler would you?

Remember this choice as we go to 1 Samuel

1 Samuel 24:1-7

1 Samuel 24:1–7 LEB

When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.” So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and he and his men went to search for David in the direction of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats. He came to the sheep pens beside the road, and a cave was there. Then Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave. And David’s men said to him, “Look, today is the day about which Yahweh said to you, ‘See, I am giving your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems good to you.’ ” So David got up and secretly cut the hem of Saul’s robe. And then afterward David felt guilty, because he had cut the hem of Saul’s robe. He said to his men, “Far be it from me in Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh’s anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he is the anointed one of Yahweh.” So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on his way.

Here we see David the soon to be King of Israel. Even with all his faults he is seen as the greatest king of Israel. It is through is line that Jesus comes. and here we see that David and his men have the opportunity to strike down Saul.

David is going to be king. Saul is out to kill David.

This is the opportunity to claim what God has ordained. To step into God’s ordination.

David has a choice.

1 Samuel 24:7 LEB

So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on his way.

David knew that this was not God’s will.

To attack Saul, to destroy Saul to take the throne this way. And he persuades his men not to attack.

Wow what a word for us. Here we see two stories of men who could of done something about those who were going to try and kill them. Something about “evil” men. But they don’t

This requires trust

This requires trust in God. It requires patience. It requires obedience. Not to take things in your own hands to go outside of Gods word to even accomplish Gods purposes

I want that for my life, don’t you?

Don’t take things into your own hands. Impatiently trying to speed things along, but trust in patients that he will bring his promises along as we trust as we obey him as we rest and trust in him.

In Our Own Hands

But we are Prone to take things in our own hands

Try to work outside of God’s word. Like Abraham when he had Ishmael.

So we pray.

Pray for Wisdom to act and when not to act. To be patient and wait upon you and your word. but not to be to patient not to act when the time comes.