The Void that only God can Fill

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Esther 2:4 “And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.”

So the extravagant party-banquet in Esther Chapter 1 has ended and the king is feeling sad. You see, things aren’t going well for the king. History records for us that the king had recently returned from a failed military mission against Greece. On top of that, He misses queen Vashti. Nothing is going well and nothing can cheer him up. There is no joy at home and he can’t even get some pleasure from beating up on the Greeks. What can you do for such a man? Clearly there is nothing that can please a man in such a state. Well, apparently almost nothing.

True joy and contentment comes only from a relationship with God Almighty for we were created for Him and nothing else can truly satisfy in the long run. Lots of ‘things’ give temporary pleasure. But as Blaise Pascal famously said: ”There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”