READ:
ESTHER 1:10-22
Every
Christian who is growing and taking steps to greater heights with the Lord,
must be very careful or pitfalls along his path. Let us learn from Queen
Vashti. She was beautiful and had what she desired. She reached a point of
comfort where she felt nobody could threaten her position. Just when she
thought she had arrived, she defied the king’s command one day and in the next
couple of days, she had been dethroned and become ordinary.
From this we learn that we face the greatest danger when we are at our highest point of comfort. David did not fall when he was struggling. After he became a king, he fell into adultery because he had become too comfortable and was sleeping and resting at the palace, when kings should be at the battle field (2 Samuel 11:1-5). Nebuchadnezzar fell at the peak of his power and was reduced to the level of a beast (Daniel 4:4-7). Never be too comfortable or too busy to pray.
Another lesson is that familiarity breeds contempt. Vashti flouted a command from her husband. She failed to submit to him because she was now taking him for granted. Some sisters in ministry behave like Vashti. Because they are more spiritual and knowledgeable in God’s word, they want to pull the wool over the eyes of their husband. They see themselves as equal with the head and fail to take instructions from him. No matter how much you decorate your body, leaving out the head, the head is still the head. That the body is bigger and better decorated than the head does not make them equal.
Do not ever become too familiar with God. God boasted of Moses (Numbers 12:1-8). He was adjudged the meekest man on the earth. Yet he made one slip in 40 years and God told him he would see but not enter the Promised Land. Be careful. Vashti was to be replaced by someone better. There is always a better substitute somewhere around. May you not be replaced. Accept every assignment as a great opportunity and privilege (Ephesians 3:8). Hold fast what you have, so that no man takes your crown (Revelation 3:11).
From this we learn that we face the greatest danger when we are at our highest point of comfort. David did not fall when he was struggling. After he became a king, he fell into adultery because he had become too comfortable and was sleeping and resting at the palace, when kings should be at the battle field (2 Samuel 11:1-5). Nebuchadnezzar fell at the peak of his power and was reduced to the level of a beast (Daniel 4:4-7). Never be too comfortable or too busy to pray.
Another lesson is that familiarity breeds contempt. Vashti flouted a command from her husband. She failed to submit to him because she was now taking him for granted. Some sisters in ministry behave like Vashti. Because they are more spiritual and knowledgeable in God’s word, they want to pull the wool over the eyes of their husband. They see themselves as equal with the head and fail to take instructions from him. No matter how much you decorate your body, leaving out the head, the head is still the head. That the body is bigger and better decorated than the head does not make them equal.
Do not ever become too familiar with God. God boasted of Moses (Numbers 12:1-8). He was adjudged the meekest man on the earth. Yet he made one slip in 40 years and God told him he would see but not enter the Promised Land. Be careful. Vashti was to be replaced by someone better. There is always a better substitute somewhere around. May you not be replaced. Accept every assignment as a great opportunity and privilege (Ephesians 3:8). Hold fast what you have, so that no man takes your crown (Revelation 3:11).
MEMORIZE:
1 CORINTHIANS 9:27 –But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest
that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
