UNSPOKEN LESSONS ABOUT THE UNSEEN GOD:
Esther simply explained
By Derek Prime. Evangelical Press. 144 pages. £6.95
ISBN 0 85234 471 6
The doctrine of God's providence is a tremendous encouragement to Christians when they are facing difficult times. Esther is a wonderful Old Testament history book which illustrates the way in which, when God seems absent, he can, in fact, be most at work.
In this latest Welwyn Commentary, Derek Prime does a magnificent job of bringing out well-grounded, faith-building lessons from the text. Set in the Persian empire around the 5th century BC, the book famously does not explicitly mention God at all. But the ordering of 'coincidences' and events speaks clearly of the silent yet sovereignly effective over-ruling of God as the Jews are rescued from the wicked plans of an implacable enemy. In nine easily digestible chapters, we are taken through the story and shown that our lives are not in the hands of fate or luck, but in the hands of God.
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