Invisible God - Ravi Chandran

Ravi shares a biographical message entitled "Invisible God" on the Book of Esther.
While the author of the Book of Esther is unknown, the incident took place about 100 years after the initial exile of the Israelites from Persia back to Israel under the leadership of Nehemiah and later Ezra. The remaining Jewish people in the Kingdom of Persia were at some point faced with a very peculiar challenge - mass execution.
The egotistical and somewhat party-loving drunken king was easily influenced by his advisors to get rid of his queen (because she refused to satisfy his drunken stupor), to marry another (Esther, who was a secret Jew) after a national beauty contest, to be almost assassinated by an uncovered plot, to fire his jealous advisor and appoint a new one (another Jew), and through Esther to help save the Jews he had ordered to be killed in the first place. The whole story seems like a plot straight out of a film.
The most fascinating thing about the whole book of Esther is this: God is not mentioned once in all 10 chapters! Yet the festival of Purim, which grew out of this book, is still celebrated in Israel today. Is the invisible God here by chance or by design? We see God's fingerprints all over the book, yet unmentioned. There is a lot of alcohol, sex and not the most moral characters mentioned, compared to the laws of God, and YET - God was still in action all the way. Likewise, it is sometimes hard to see God at work in history, our lives, situations and circumstances. But an "invisible" God is not the same as an absent God, as we will learn this Sunday.
What else can we learn from this story? Why was it included in the Scriptures in the first place? What does God want to tell us?

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