June 13, 2025, Ester 9:20-32
20 And
Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all
the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 obliging
them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of
the same, year by year, 22 as the days on which the
Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for
them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they
should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food
to one another and gifts to the poor.
23 So the
Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to
them. 24 For Haman the Agagite, the son of
Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews
to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to
destroy them. 25 But when it came before the king,
he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against
the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be
hanged on the gallows. 26 Therefore they called
these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was
written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of
what had happened to them, 27 the Jews firmly
obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that
without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written
and at the time appointed every year, 28 that these
days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan,
province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse
among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their
descendants.
29 Then
Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full
written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim. 30 Letters
were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of
Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth, 31 that
these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai
the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves
and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting. 32 The
command of Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded
in writing.
The Jews saw what an
amazing gift God gave them with Esther being in a place to save them and
created a feast to thank God for saving them in such a public and glorious
way.
Do you thank God when He
does something amazing for you or just take it for granted?
How often do you thank Him
and not tell others what He has done for you?
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