After reading the biblical story of Esther it occurred again to me how purposeful the routine and mundane aspects of life are. every one knows how important Esthers role was but there is the eunuch the carpenters who built the gallows. every one was doing their small routine task and God used it to further his purpose. proverbs says the steps belong to man but god plans the path.
who doesn’t feel useless and wondering how their life fits the big picture or if there even is a big picture. Esther’s story gives hope.
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February 21, 2008 at 4:34 pm
the thing of perspective is…when we die our hope is not legecy , is not. it is Jesus Christ’s glory. if all we accomplish be read or thought about it is futile because it is always incomplete. a christians legecy is Jesus an d Him only. and in that only we find worth for life beyond ourselves. worth for the mundane routines. jeannette expressed it when on learning of Ellis’ hearing loss ” this is not tragedy, to grow and not know Jesus is tragedy”.
my mother sits in a nursing home. her life is reflected in the wish that Jesus be seen in her not that she has taught many years and affected lots of lives, but that those lives are affected by her unknowing and knowingly reflecting Jesus.
just as all the charactors in the biblical story play a role they all reflect unknowingly and knowingly a God who saves.