The impact of evil plans

Scripture Read: Esther  6:10-14 Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said.” ¹¹ So Haman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.” ¹² Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered. ¹³ Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.” ¹⁴ While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hastily brought Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

Application: Two aspects of the impact of the “Haman principle” First, Whenever we plan evil against someone, God will not only allow us to reap that evil ourselves, but many times He adds injury to insult. The person we planned to have fired through slander – gets promoted over us so they now have the power to fire us!. Your own mouth will be the judge of what will happen to you. It is ironic to see how it’s flipped around back at the perpetrator. 

The demise that Haman has spoken against Mordecai is exactly what happened to him in the end. In turn the very praise that Haman prescribed for himself would be heaped upon Mordecai! The couple we tried to break up, out of jealousy ends up married and we are alone! The house we swindle away from someone turns out to be right in the middle of a fault, and the earthquake happens right after you finish moving in! In eternity we will be amazed IF we get to see it, how many times those that planned evil were caught in “the Haman principle”! (Ps 37:12–13) The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth. ¹³ The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his day is coming.) The Second aspect is the hopeless situation “the Haman principle” leaves you in. Look at Haman, just a few minutes before he had convinced himself that he was the King’s favorite, he not only has to pay homage to the man he hates, but he knows the plans he has devised against this man has placed him in peril. Father, check our motives – guide us to integrity. Let us not allow evil to get a hold of us in a way that the very evil we are planning becomes a snare for ourselves. Keep us far from “the Haman principle” oh Lord!

Meditation Questions: When you dislike someone, what do you do? What should you do? Are they different? What does that show you? When someone does evil to you, what do you do? What should you do? Are they different? What does that show you? Do you get your plans approved by the Lord? Why? Why not? If your plans toward others is always for their best what will that do?