Faithful and Fearless: Lesson 4/Day 3 Esther 1:10-12

Faithful & Fearless: Lesson 4/Day 3 Esther 1:10-12

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Vashti refuses to go before the king, and this becomes the first of many pivotal moments in Esther. Some have held Vashti up as a model of the first feminist. She defies her husband to protect her honor. She refuses to be paraded in front of hundreds of gawking, drunken, men. She will not be at the beck and call of her rash, angry husband. Jewish tradition says that she, as the remnant Babylonian royalty used this moment to deliberately humiliate her usurping husband in front of the princes and people at that palace party. Whatever her motivation, associating with a hot-tempered man – particularly one with power – will not end well. Vashti’s decision forever changes her life story. She may not have been free to defy the king without severe consequence, but there is a bigger story here – God’s story. All of history is ultimately the story of God working in time to bring all people to Him. Vashti’s moment in time and history is a part of that story, for, in her decision, God opens the way for Esther to move from obscurity to the center of one of the greatest stories ever told.

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