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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Esther 9:23-32; Esther 10:1-3
Thus from year to year, the great deliverance of which the people has been the object will needs be commemorated in the feast of Purim. Every year Christendom too celebrates – alas with a mixed response – the birth and the death of the Saviour. Of course, we should be glad if by these means many are led to think of these great events at least once or twice a year. For us too, each year’s end gives the opportunity to bless God for all the goodness He has shown. But let us rather, not once a year, but every first day of the week, indeed every day of our lives, remember our glorious redemption, our glorious Redeemer.
He appears once again in ch. 10 in the features of Mordecai, "great . . . accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed" (v. 3). In all of this we contemplate Jesus, who being in the form of a servant, acted wisely and by consequence was necessarily exalted and lifted up and made very high (Isaiah 52:13; cf. also Psalms 45:6-8; Philippians 2:9-11). But He is equally worthy to occupy the supreme place in our thoughts and affections (Colossians 1:18 end). Let each of us give Him this place now.
