Jesus Cipher Week 9 - Esther part 5

Esther’s plot against Haman is filled with deception and manipulation. We often excuse it as a justified response to Haman’s machinations against Mordecai and Israel. But does that mean our integrity, ethics, and morality is determined by the situation we are in? Was this plan the plan God gave Esther, or one she concocted out of her own desire, experience, and fear? Again, the important thing to note in this week’s reading is that the text DOES NOT evaluate the rightness, wrongness, godliness, or holiness of Esther’s process. It simply describes it. So how do we search for the knowledge of Christ in this passage and then apply it in our lives?