You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Isaiah 26:3.

Do you doubt that God works in this life of ours or in your life personally? Do you have trouble trusting God? I understand. All we have to do is look at the events in this world and see the chaos and think there is no way a loving God would allow these things to happen. And our hearts fill with more turmoil. The biggest questions about life we have all wondered. Why does God allow evil? What is the point? And yet, when I read the above Scripture I know God’s peace and comfort. How? Because nothing else makes sense. The most wonderful thing about God is God. He who created life out of what did not exist before He created, is love. Love was not created. God is love. When we turn to Him and let His love work in our very being we find comfort and peace knowing He has us. He has us in His love.

In our chapter, Esther 6, Haman is happily contemplating that Mordecai and all his people, the Jews, will soon be dead and by Haman’s own design, Mordecai himself will be impaled upon a pole where all can see him dead. His plan was not for good and was for the opposite of God’s love. God intervenes. Xerxes, the king, cannot sleep and wants to have the chronicles of his reign read to him, v. 1-2. He is reminded that Mordecai saved his life and finds that that was never rewarded. Mordecai is on his mind when Haman is brought into Xerxes presence. Xerxes is contemplating how he can honor Mordecai and Haman is imagining Mordecai soon dead. Something had to give. By Haman’s own description of how the king can honor someone he delights in, never imagining that person would be Mordecai, Haman is now going to Mordecai at the gate, putting on him a royal robe, setting him on a horse and personally walking him through the city streets proclaiming, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!” v. 6-11. And now, the king’s eunuchs are there to escort Haman into the banquet Esther has prepared for him and the king. His own wife had the truth of it when she told Haman, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him – you will surely come to ruin!” v. 13. I can only imagine how alone Haman felt.

In this world in every age is trouble and hardship and tribulation whose origins spring from the hearts of men. The chaos we see. We can’t trust chaos. We can trust our Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit – who is love and holiness and righteousness and goodness and where no darkness is. He will heal us and lead us into His truth and Love in His perfect timing. This life is not our only hope. This life is where we learn so many lessons good and awful. I may not be able to make sense of it in my own understanding but God does. I trust Him. He knows the way and it is with Him. His love lights the way. Always.