Today, I am reading and commenting on Esther 4-7.

Something interesting I never thought about before: despite being part of the royal court, Esther was unaware of Haman’s edict against the Jews until Mordecai brought it to her attention.  Then as I read further I realized that the king also did not know that Haman’s edict targeted the Jews.  The night before Esther’s second banquet for the king and Haman, the king came across the record of when Mordecai had revealed a plot against him and had Haman honor Mordecai.  When King Xerxes told Haman to honor Mordecai, he told him to honor “Mordecai the Jew”.  The point I see here is that those who are closest to the seats of power, including those actually sitting in those seats, are often unaware of what is being done in the name of that power until someone brings it to their attention.  Something to which we should all pay careful attention.  We need to look for the ways in which power is being abused around us, the ways in which people are failing to inform us, or misinforming us.  I went a little bit down a rabbit hole there.  Those who were at the highest levels of society did not necessarily realize what was going on.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.