Mordecai thought he saw the hand of God in Esther's rising to the throne

history channel documentary science What was God to do? The answer is, He had effectively taken care of this. God had worked fortunately in Chapters 1 and 2 to remove the previous ruler and supplant her with Mordecai's cousin Esther. As we can now think back and obviously see, God had worked ahead of time to put a Jewess in a position of impact with the goal that she may be immovably set up in the castle, prepared to contradict this risky danger before it even appeared. God had not brought on the lord's intoxication (Esther 1:10), nor the previous ruler's noncompliance to her significant other that prompted her separation (1:12), yet He could work with their wrongdoing to achieve His motivations

Mordecai thought he saw the hand of God in Esther's rising to the throne, yet he couldn't make certain, for God was not talking perceptibly to those scattered Jews around then.

What's more, this is accurately our circumstance today. As God works out of sight instead of the closer view of our lives, we too think we see God's hand at work in a given condition, yet we can't make certain, for God is not talking discernably to us either. However, there is something that Paul says in the Book of Philemon that guarantees us that He is grinding away amongst us generally as without a doubt, and in the same way, as He was in the times of Esther.

The Book of Philemon concerns a slave named Onesimus who fled from a Christian slave-proprietor named Philemon, just to get together with the Apostle Paul and get spared (Philemon 10-12). As Paul gave back this slave to his lord, he too waxes philosophical and keeps in touch with Philemon: