Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
The palace is the highest seat of
governance and decision making in any nation, community or city. This explains
why the palace is held in high esteem and people who work in palaces or have
any form of connection to palaces carry certain airs about them even when they
are not highly placed workers. There are two reasons for this – one way or the
other, they are connected to the seat of power in the land and can to an extent
have access to the King or his cronies. They are also able to access certain
privileged information that could benefit them or people close to them.
Mordecai was one such person.
Though a gateman at the palace in Shushan, his ears were close to the ground.
He knew early enough about the search for a queen contest and asked his younger
orphaned cousin, Esther; who lived with him to participate in the contest.
Through divine intervention, she won and became queen in the land. Though this
did not earn Mordecai any immediate promotion or economic or political rewards,
Esther’s strategic but divine position in the land palace came in handy when
the need arose. Her connection to the palace was divine, timely just as
Mordecai’s connection to the palace was for her; stepping stones to greatness.
While Mordecai’s connection served as entry point for Esther in paving the way
for her participation in the search for a queen contest, Esther’s connection to
the palace also paved the way to Mordecai’s greatness in the land as Mordecai
eventually became the number two citizen in the land and together, they ensured
that Haman’s evil decree to annihilate the Jews did not see the light of day.
Though Nehemiah served as
cupbearer to King Xerxes, yet Nehemiah was able to request certain privileges
from the King which enabled him access state resources for the rebuilding of
the broken down walls of Jerusalem. This
implies that connection to the palace grants access to state resources for the
achievement of divine purposes.
The Priest, Ezra was also given
state resources by King Cyrus for the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah must have thought that he was just a cupbearer but unknown to him, he
was divinely and strategically positioned there to serve the divine purpose of
accessing state resources as well as state permission to rebuild the broken down
walls of Jerusalem in addition to serving as governor of Jerusalem; providing
true leadership which drew the people close to God as well as empowered them
economically.
Beloved, as God in His infinite
mercy and wisdom places you strategically in palaces, remember that you are
divinely placed there to access state resources for the accomplishment of
divine purposes which brings about large scale blessing on humanity; and also to
access privileged information. It could also be God’s way of opening doors for
participation in governance and decision making processes in the land as in the
cases of Joseph in Egypt, Daniel, Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego in Babylon,
Esther and Mordecai in Shushan.
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