Because God doesn't leave us love notes in the sky, and since we can't see his caring hands,

and because we pray to an invisible God, sometimes we're tempted to question his sovereign control.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck

Swindall traces the ordained footsteps of an Old Testament favorite. Chuck's series is called

Esther, a woman of strength and dignity. And in today's study, we're reminded that God is like

a fresh breeze, always in motion and working his will, though invisible to the human

eye.

Winston Churchill had an appointment with destiny.

It was on the morning of May 10, 1939. The German army had invaded Holland and

Belgium, and France was next. The King of England summoned Churchill and asked him to mobilize

the government against Hitler and the Nazis. Churchill's journal records his feelings

that fateful evening. I quote from that journal, I felt as if I were walking with destiny,

and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.

Quite likely Esther must have felt in a similar way when she heard Mordecai's words,

for if you remain silent at this time, he told her, relief and deliverance will arise

for the Jews from another place, and you and your father's house will perish.

And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?

We find those immortal words in Esther 4, verse 14. We could call that Esther's appointment

with destiny. As the book of Esther opens, we sense God's hand moving events toward the moment

when she would step forward and keep that appointment with destiny.

I want to read a few verses from Esther 1 and then chapter 2.

If you have your Bible, please turn to the first chapter of Esther.

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