I admire Ester. She was a young Jewish woman in Persia. On advice from her relative Mordecai, Ester enters a "beauty pageant" to pick out the king's new queen. Ester eventually is named winner and is crowned as queen without anyone knowing that she is Jewish. While in power Ester risked her own life to save her people from the wicked Haman who was a bigot. To be able to do what she did, Ester had to be a brave, loyal, and an extremely selfless woman.
"Now Ester had not revealed her family and her people, just as Mordecai had charged her, for Ester obeyed the command of Mordecai as when she was brought up by him." (Ester 2:20) When Ester became queen of Persia she knew that if she revealed her faith she could possibly dethroned or even hurt. This is why she had to be brave and trust in her God for everything to turn out all right and that she would be in her position of authority for her people.
After Haman had sent out a decree allowing for the murder of all Jews in king Xerces......
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