God’s Invisible Hand

The High and Low of Ego

“Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai…” Esther 5:9

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 2 Corinthians 4:10-11

Why are we called to this thing the New Testament elsewhere calls the “crucified life”? God wants us to die to everything and anything that hinders or relationship with Him.

God’s forte is life. He’ not just willing to leave things dead. A paramount them in Esther is what God can do when we resolve to obey and “if I perish I perish.” Anytime God calls us to die, His purpose is to reveal larger life.

God designed the human psyche. He knows that nothing leaves us more hollow than being full of ourselves. We have no greater burden than our own egos and nothing more breakable.

Human character is never more flawed than when one person can reach his or her highest only when another is swept in the depths. Only the smallest person needs others flat on their backs to feel tall. Such is the driving force beneath all oppression.

Knowing where we are positioned in Christ quells our deeply imbedded psychological need for self-exaltation.

Read 2 Peter 1:3-4 and meditate on it long enough to be astonished. Don’t look up from the page until it’s revelation is profound to you. The masterpiece of God’s Word can say so much to us in a few words.

Be Blessed and be a Blessing,

Cheryl

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