God's Providential Care

The tables are turned as God thwarts Haman's plans ~ After an evening of celebration and plotting, Haman approaches the kings court anxious to submit his petition to hang Mordecai on the gallows, but before he had a chance to say anything to the king, the king asks him a question.

Let's look at Esther 6:6 "So Haman came in, and the king asked him, "What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman thought in his heart, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?" 

My friend, little did Haman know the King, full of enlightenment from God after a sleepless night, was talking about rewarding Mordecai for saving his life five years ago. Wow! What a blow to Haman! God used the king to give the shocking order that reversed the fate, the destiny of Haman and Mordecai. Haman would have never expected Mordecai to be the man the king wished to honor. The king commands Haman that he is not to leave anything out that he had recommended in verses 7-9. Haman was humiliated before the public while Mordecai was honored. His experience clearly shows how God humbles the prideful of the world and exalts the humble. Haman's pride was crushed by the command of the king, for he was forced to exalt Mordecai the man he had personally despised and plotted to execute. Haman was to suffer the most embarrassing, disgraceful act of his life.

Proverbs 11:8 "The righteous is delivered from trouble, and it comes to the wicked instead."

Psalms 7:15-16 "He made a pit and dug it out, and has fallen into the ditch which he made. His trouble shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown."