Conceit is a strange disease in that, when a person has it, it makes everyone else sick! 

“How unsearchable are His judgments…and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways! ” (Rom 11:33, AMP). 

Cinderella has nothing on Esther. This young woman will change the whole course of history! 

Parties and drinking and divorce and beauty contests and murder plots and…God turned it to good?

“Love is patient and kind;…it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way” (1 Cor 13:4-5, ESV).

Two drinking parties going on at the same time in the same town. They’ll soon connect. What could go wrong? 

“Behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face.” —William Cowper 

Nehemiah empathized with the people’s needs, emended their mistakes, and encouraged their success. 

“Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,…You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth!” (Ps 80:1). 

The priesthood we enjoy today, as with Christ’s High Priesthood, is not according to law but by grace.