How do you do Daily Devotions?

How Do You Do Daily Devotions?

We did our daily devotions by reading Scripture and praying early in the morning early that make it a daily devotions. And in other words, it is simply a daily encounter with Christ. As believer, we need to ask God to bless this day and to give us the grace for today and always through prayers and our supplications to Him. Read our daily devotions for today, Friday, October 7, 2022 to start your day. These daily devotions are posted every day in this our Blog.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022

TEXT: Esther 1:1-12

1. Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,

2. in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel,

3. in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,

4. while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days.

5. And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

6. There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

7. Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.

8. And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.” For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.

9. Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

10. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

11. to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.

12. But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.

(English Standard Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: VASHTI WAS NOT WRONG

Many of us in the church today will conclude that Queen Vashti was right to have rejected the king’s order to present herself before the royal guests during the banquet. She is condemned without considering the context of the situation in which we found herself.

First, she was not a Jew and so had no covenant relationship with Yahweh. We must also look at her situation from the eyes of the pagan culture she lived in. It was culturally acceptable for the king to make such request and she had to comply.

Second, her refusal was considered an abuse of royal privilege and by it a test of the might of the king. If he had chosen to forgive her, it would have been inviting a serious disrespect to not just the king but to all men within the empire.

But if we look at her response from a Bibical perspective, we can confidently say that it was wrong for the king to attempt to use his wife to express his pride and arrogance. It is wrong to use a human being as an object for boosting your ego. Consider your spouse as a privilege to serve and never as a tool for your personal satisfaction.

QUESTION: How do you view the people God brings into your life?

PRAYER: Dear Lord, give me the grace to treat the people You bring into my life with great respect, in Jesus name, Amen.