In my translation it is translated to purification. and that can be interrupted in a different manner then beauty treatments. To me its not about making a beautiful person more beautiful, these girls that were brought to the kings house were not from royal families, the were common girls, so the treatments that they went through were those to make them more proper. They were to groom the girls to be able to obey, sit in a royal fashion, and proper etiquette. could you imagine presenting the king with a lady straight from the farm with no training on how to act in good company..imagine the way she would eat or talk...she may have been beautiful but her manners were that of a child growing up with her hands to eat with. Imagine the confusing she would have had with 3 forks, and 2 spoons at her place setting. I still get confused on which is the salad fork and the steak fork..
This is also were we are introduced to Esther, and I'm not going to go through all we know about her because we read it and it was in the video. But her cousin was part of the kings party, so he was taught all the ways of a noble man. and in return taught them to Esther. So this is way she caught the attention of the kings Chamberlain right away and obtained his kindness. She already possessed the qualities the king desired.
She was the right one for the job..have you ever had a problem and had a friend that has gone through it before? several of us have and we go to that friend for support right? So if the chamberlain found a women that fit the bill he would give the most attention to her and not worry about the rest so much because he already had the right girl for the job. No wonder Esther will become the next queen..she didn't even have to try out for the part. they knew she would be perfect...just like our friend that has been though our situation before us.
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I hear ya Jen. And I think that her previous training by Mordecai that included Jewish traditions may have had a part. They have a lot of rules... but they also have a lot of God! Perhaps Esther learned of God's love for her and that helped her not to be bitter over the loss of her parents and hurt she'd experienced but instead to develop a spirit of joy and gratefulness.
I think we tend to be more attracted to people who have good attitudes, to those who are kind and friendly, to those who reach out. Many times those attributes make a person far more attractive than physical beauty ever could. Perhaps that is why Hegai was pleased with her and why he choose to provide her special treatment (and treatments!) and ultimately why the king choose her as well.
I'm sure that we'd all love to be friendly, kind, outgoing, beautiful and appealing to others. But sometimes our humanness gets in the way. We fell tired at the end of a long day, we get angry sometimes, and we just want to stay safe within our own shells.
Maybe instead of looking at our own reflections, we need to see how we are reflecting God. And ask Him each day to make us more beautiful..
I don`t know how Esther did it but she stayed focused on God. Constantly focused. When I falter on a continual basis I loose. focus. Yet in order to please men and women it had to be all the time. Someone would see through fake. That wasn`t what Esther was. Servants saw her, she must not have been demanding but kind in her needs and requests. The king saw her and loved her because she met his physical and emotional needs when he must have been so empty. And women. Well she must have been a very real, non fake person if women enjoyed her company.
Im thinking that God kinda puts us through beauty treatments too. Hes been there he knows where the right person for the job. He allows all the sometimes painful hard stuff to build us up and make us more beautiful.
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