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Chuck Swindoll’s ‘Insight for Today’ Daily Devotional is here. Insight for Today provides practical, relevant insight into today’s issues with Biblical principles applied. This devotional will help you connect with God on a daily basis, while also equipping you with a Bible-based approach to transforming your everyday life. Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll.
The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 3rd January 2024 is “He’s in Charge”.
Scriptures: Esther 8:9–14
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 3RD JANUARY 2024.
The decree was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the king’s signet ring. Mordecai sent the dispatches by swift messengers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king’s service.
The king’s decree gave the Jews in every city authority to unite to defend their lives. They were allowed to kill, slaughter, and annihilate anyone of any nationality or province who might attack them or their children and wives, and to take the property of their enemies. (Esther 8:10–11)
The law of the Medes and Persians couldn’t be changed. The law Haman had written had to stay on the books. But because the heart of the king had been softened by the pleas of Esther, he provided a way by which that law might never come into effect—or would at least be neutralized.
The Jews could protect themselves. In fact, they could do more than that. They could take the lives of anyone who might attack them, including women and children, and they had a right to plunder and take ownership of their possessions. So at least it was an even playing field. The Jews now had their own defense, established of all things, by the Persian law. “The couriers, hastened and impelled by the king’s command, went out, riding on the royal steeds; and the decree was given out at the citadel in Susa” (Esther 8:14).
Amazing! And to think these rights provided for all the Jews were granted by the same man who earlier had virtually sealed their doom.
You may have some person after you. You may have some document, something that’s been written that seems irrevocable—some magazine article, some newspaper article, some transcript, some occupational report, some lawsuit, whatever. Because it’s in writing, it looks so intimidating, so unerasable, so legal. And you’re reading these words, thinking, Yeah, but if you only knew who’s behind that. That’s my whole point here! Who is anybody compared to the living Lord? I don’t care who’s behind that document. We serve a sovereign God who has yet to go “Ahh!” when He finds anything on this earth. Nothing frightens Him. Nothing causes Him to do a neck jerk. He’s in charge! We live “in the shelter of the Most High.” We “abide in the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). Nothing is too hard for Him! Nothing!
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Today’s Insight”.
Today’s Insight is written by Chucks Swindoll. Chuck Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word and His grace. Since 1988 he has served as the founder and senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Texas, but his listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. The radio broadcast of this devotional program has aired for more than 35 years. Read more.
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