After so much struggle and challenges Mordecai got his reward, his enemy Haman had planned to kill him, but instead of that, Haman was forced to honor Mordecai. Everything began with the king’s insomnia after Haman had planned to have Mordecai hanged (5:9-14)
Do you believe that it was just a coincidence? On the other hand, was it the powerful hand of God working behind scenes? The interesting thing was that when Mordecai denounced the plot to kill the king in chapter 2, he did not get any reward right away, but I think providentially was written in the royal books for this particular occasion, when the king was unable to sleep and Mordecai was facing his biggest challenge. We are very much ready to complain because we are not given what we think is fair in the present moment, but are we willing to trust in God’s providence for the right time and the right occasion?
Mordecai not only saw his life spared, but the life of every Jew living in the Persian Empire. His cousin Esther was willing to risk her life and security in order to preserve her people life and the writer tells us “for the Jews there were light and gladness, joy and honor. In every province and in every city, where the king’s command and edict came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews a festival and a holiday” (8: 16-17)
In the most obscure time of the Jew people, there were two wonderful persons Mordecai and Esther who were willing to bring the light of God among his people.
There is another thing that we should mention and that is that the celebration of the new feast of Purim carries a new meaning within, on the first time Haman casted Pur or “the lot” to find the right day to destroy the Jews (3: 7-15). On the second time when Mordecai uses is to show that there is something more powerful that the human intentions and the human understanding of lot. That is why he says that these days should be remembered as: “the days in which the Jews gained relief from their enemies and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into holiday” (9:20-22)
I do not know what your challenges are right now, but one thing is for sure the same God who was taking care of the Jews at Mordecai and Esther’s time is the same one who is taking care of today.
Let the powerful light of God shine upon us!