Devotional : Humble Faithfulness
So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the
man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom
would the king delight to honor more than me?” … Then the king said to
Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so
to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing
that you have mentioned.”
Here is one of the Bible’s great jaw-dropping moments.
Haman
was a proud and presumptuous man, and this led him to make a huge
miscalculation. His assumption, upon hearing that there was a “man whom
the king delights to honor,” was to assume that he must be that man. So
he outlined a plan for exaltation involving royal robes, a royal horse, a
crown, and public praise with no one in mind other than himself (Esther
6:8-9). We can imagine Haman’s heart swelling as he heard the king say
to him, “Hurry, take the robes and the horse, as you have said…” And
then he heard… “And do so to Mordecai the Jew.”
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