“The changing of the Wind”

Esther 8

Have you heard the term, “The changing of the Wind” that the mighty Haman is dead, the Agagite, the hater of the Jews?  Mordecai the Jew is now the one with the King's royal signet ring, and the king has turned over the estate of Haman to Queen Esther and Mordecai.  That is an interesting story worth your time reading and giving thought to.  But who changes the wind?  We find in Scripture this conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?”

If you and I are using the brainpower God has given us, we should grasp that “the changing of the wind” was the hand of God working to bless His chosen people, the Jewish race.  Then, as now, many of the Jewish people a few days later got busy with life and forgot who redeemed them from sure destruction.

Are you and I much different than them?  Or are we more like a Nicodemus, a teacher of the Law, a brilliant scholar and yet ignorant of whom it is that “Changes the Wind”?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice