If you looked up the word life in Heaven's Thesaurus, one of the first synonyms you'd find would be this one, pain.

Yes, life has broken bones, bitter losses, and enemies you never saw coming.

Today, on Insight for Living,

Chuck Swindall points to Esther Chapter 3,

where a trusted official named Haman

nursed an old grudge until it became a blueprint for genocide.

Here's the point.

Unchecked evil grows,

and the only power strong enough to stop it

is the grace of Jesus Christ.

Beginning with Esther 3 verse 5, Chuck titled his message, an evil interlude.

When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him,

Haman was filled with rage, and he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone,

for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were.

Therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews.

Wait a minute.

In Haman's mind is a learned trait, a hate the Jews.

And he realized if he could ever be placed into power

and ever, ever have an opportunity to do something about it,

he would not stop with one who wouldn't bow.

He would exterminate the race.

I have circled in my Bible,

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