Esther 2:19-5:14
That was a cold thing that Mordecai did to Esther. He pretty much sent her to her death, and laid it on thick in order to do so. It’s a good job Esther knew how to shake her booty.
Revelation 3:7-22
The thing that is getting me about these letters to the churches is not the stuff about synagogues of Satan or the luke-warm water but the lavishness of what is to come. If we overcome - which doesn’t sound too hard when we factor in the awesome power of the Spirit - we will be able to eat from the tree of life, we will not be hurt at all by the second death, we will have authority over all the nations, we will have our name acknowledged before the Father, we will be made pillars in the temple of our God, we will sit with Jesus on his throne. Isn’t that just ridiculously remarkable? Isn’t it preposterous? There isn’t an award ceremony on earth that could get close to giving anything as incredible as even one of those things. There cannot be a person with such a mediocre record as mine who is even in the running for such a dazzling array of riches as these. Sometimes I just wonder how on earth Jesus can stomach it. I wonder what on earth he is doing giving me as much as he is. But that wondering just leads me into gratitude and that gratitude just leads me into worship and that worship just leads me into humility. How great is Jesus and how great is his generosity.
Psalm 141:1-10
“Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil”
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