Esther 4-7

It took about 15 minutes to read this passage. The center piece of God's providence in this story is the night during which the king couldn't sleep. He did what most people would do; sought out the driest reading material and hoped it would lull him to sleep.  Of course boring words on a page are no match to the almighty God. The king got no sleep that night. But he was reminded of a kindness shown to him many day's earlier: Mordecia's truthfulness to the king. We need to remember that the lack of sleep is one of God's means of gaining our attention to instruct us about life.
Stuart