Churches in Kalispell

“He is there at work. And and we read Esther chapter one, and we go, alright. So God is at work in the middle of all this. As we read the story and we see the pride and the excess and the anger and the injustice and the celebrations and those things that go on, we go, is God really working through that? God is not excusing anything that happens in chapter one. God is not excusing or approving any of that stuff, but God knows that there's some people who who go through that stuff that that they will need him there, and that broken people need his grace and his love.”

“The king who seems so strong and so in control is now controlled by his anger and his embarrassment. The court that seems so wise was now being controlled by fear. The empire that seemed so stable was now threatened because one woman refused to do what the king asked. The empire looked massive, but it was emotionally fragile on the inside because of this. The king looks powerful, but really he's insecure. The palace looks orderly, but it is driven by the king's ego and by his control, and so then when he loses it, they lose it.”

“And what looks like a palace drama and looks like something that is gonna just shake everything up will eventually become part of a much larger story, a story of deliverance, a story of healing, a story of of courage and strength that God will then use. At this point, though, nobody in the palace sees that happening and sees that those things will come. Nobody knows what is coming. Nobody realizes that this embarrassing royal episode will become part of a march of that much larger story.”

“We also know that God is at work through this story. We also know that as we continue reading our Bible, that that God is at work through it all, and he has a plan. And his plan was to send Jesus. That as followers of Jesus, we don't have to panic in times when they seem uncertain around us. When we when we feel like it's time to panic, when we feel it's time to just be in despair, that we know that we can trust in God and his faithfulness.”