BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
Esther 5, 6

To be blessed with being honored is directly rooted in God’s kindness. Mordecai was a Jewish man whose frequent spot was at the king’s gate. He did the right thing when he uncovered a plot against King Ahasuerus. Esther 2:21-22, “In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 22 So the matter became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.” At the same king’s gate, Mordecai was marked for evil by the evil agent named Haman. After Haman had spotted Mordecai for not bowing and paying homage to him, he went further in his plot to destroy all the Jews just because of Mordecai. As Haman’s position becomes more favorable with King Ahasuerus so his pride and ego grew and he could not resist his bitterness against Mordecai. Haman elevated his plot against Mordecai. “…When Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.” (Esther 5:9) With suggestion from his wife, Haman then came  to the king requesting, ”…Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.’ And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.” (Esther 5:14) At the approval of Haman’s plot, Mordecai became marked with an untimely death and there was no way out for him except by God’s intervention. A night before his death sentence, “…The king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 3 Then the king said, ‘What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this…?’” (Esther 6:1-3) Earlier in life, the good act of Mordecai that prevented the king from being terminated by an evil plot was not in vain but rather was in a book of remembrance. God, in His kindness, never slept nor slumbered and could not have allowed King Ahasuerus to sleep over a plan of wickedness against His own. Just as God could not sleep nor slumber in delivering Mordecai, so He will do unto you against every area of life that you have been marked with an untimely death. As God will have it, with delights to honor, King Ahasuerus promoted Mordecai in the presence of Haman. Haman, the agent of wickedness, ended up becoming the victim of his wicked plan for Mordecai. Do you have a book of remembrance? 

Prayer for today: Ask God, to answer on your behalf just as He did for Mordecai.