The Word of God

Esther 9:

18. The Jews in Susan, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it it a day of feasting and joy

19. That is why rural Jews – those living in villages – observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and fasting, a day of giving present to each other

20. Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters throughout the provinces of king Xerxes, near and far…

Mordecai has risen from sitting at the king’s gate to becoming the Prime Minister of a vast empire that covered a great part of the earth. So does Christ rose from being Lamb to becoming Lion. It’s a process; it’s growing into different stature. Nothing less is expected of the believers in Christ, the saints of God, to grow in stature, coming to the perfect man, until coming unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13). Mordecai controls the empire as many Jews like Joseph and Daniel successfully did before him.

On the pur day, the 13th of Adar, the twelfth month of the 13th year of Ahasuerus, all the Jews are to be wiped out of existence, so says the edict of the king. Nine months before the pur day, the expected day of solving the Jewish question, God intervenes to overrule the decree, establishing another overriding and superseding  decree that insists Jew have the right to life. So did Jesus Christ did for mankind for there’s existing decree of death on all but Christ came and overdrew it and insisted man must have the free right to life, eternal life, God’s own kind of life – a life beyond and higher and far above that of man and angels and spirits, a life of one with the godhead! It’s a life more than living perpetually without an end, but the very life shared with God. If you know the nature of the life of God, then you know Life Eternal!

One amazing characteristic of this Life is the complete inability to perform sin. According to Pastor Seyi Osanyibi, however way or long you teach God how to sin, He will always flunk the exam; it’s just impossible for Him to sin. His divine nature simply is incapable of sinning. And He is bringing the believers to this status. But our our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body (Philippians 3:20-21).

Mordecai, as it were, has long been prepared for this present role of being in charge. Nothing seems strange to him nor hard; he rides the waves, writing the reports of this intervention, establishing the holidays called mePurim – a period of fasting and feasting and exchanging of gifts, a memorial. The Lord Jesus has his wounds in his hands and feet and side –  memorials of what it cost Him to free us from the vice grips of the devil and his accusations. Here are the believers in constant celebration of the freedom to serve the Lord, filled with the joy of this One and only Lord. The Jews of Medio-Pertia kingdom await a deliverer while the sentence of death hung over them; then, the emergence of Mordecai. The believers in Christ are looking up, expecting the Saviour for the final salvation drive.

Behold, he comes! He comes clad in a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called The Word of God ( Revelation 19:13). All the while, he has kept quiet. The enemies of the Lord on the earth has been having a busy time trying to grab control over His followers, the believers in Him. Now, He is rising to the challenge. He’s called The Word of God. In the beginning was the Word; The Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was from the beginning. Mordecai of Medio-Pertia had the word and never stumbled for a split second to know what to do; he’s filled with wisdom, understanding, knowledge and the love of God out of this world. Jesus Christ the Lord, this Word of God, comes blazing through the heaven for His beloved, for the end story and for judgement against the world. The saints are waiting, looking up for him. Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. While at it, Lord, may Your pleasure, Your will prosper in my hand, being filled with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and of power, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of God – quick to fear the Lord, not the fear one has for a rattlesnake but the great desire, perhaps anxiety, to honour God. In everything, the desire to have the Lord taking and having the preeminence. Just as the longing, even more, characterized of Mordecai, of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the call of my life, of the Life.

Thank You Lord