God has made it is a thing of endowment for every human to have dignity, and
standing on one’s dignity automatically means insisting on being treated with
due respect. Everybody, man or woman,
deserves this, except anyone that is not capable of rational reasoning. A man
is to love a woman with due reciprocal
I hope you would not judge this article from a feminist point of view, but learn from the virtue of the truth
(John 17:17) it communicates. The book of Proverbs 23:23 enjoin
us to buy the truth and sell it not! The truth is not always palatable to one’s
hearing, but it is most wise not to ignore
but invest in it. It is the purest source of life. God help us, the strategist
to be able to conclude once and for all. However, if it has to run onto another
volume of publication, it shall still be to the edification of the body of
Christ. Therefore, we would advise our readers to follow the pace of wisdom as
led by God, the all-knowing.
Where are we? I guess still
on the issue of justifying our dear Queen
Vashti. I would say that Vashti was a proud wife that a reasonable husband
would be proud of. I know some of my readers
would say, “What?! Has this guy gone out of
reasonableness?” But I want to tell you that she was far much more reasonable
than her husband, Ahasuerus who, even as a king, did not know how to treat his
wife’s fabulous beauty. Reason is he
allowed a group of drunks to preside over his matrimonial affairs to turn the
wife of a whole king, who was the lord of lords over many provinces into a
carousal dancer, somewhat unimaginable, right? What a
worthless king indeed! I know some of you would
gullibly believe what some preachers
would say God
made it so. But believe me, honestly, God does
not do or plan evil towards His creatures, whether saved or unsaved, He only
overrules evil. Let us make something crystal clear here. It is true that God
knows everything but He is not a party to everything that happens to human
beings. God did not make Ahasuerus drunk. God never laid it in his rotten heart
to manipulate
the outstanding beauty of his wife before alcoholic gluttons. But God remained
in his ignorance while he
and his crowd of lords indulged in their carousal demand. Of course, a
reasonable wife like Vashti would not incline to such drunken stupidity because
there is no difference between a mad man and a drunk. A mad man does not have
any control of his reasonableness, so does a drunk.
Vashti could accurately reason because she was not a drunk. She did not have to
parade her dignity before those subjects of alcohol because that is clearly not
what beauty is created for. Men should know that to hold a woman’s love is a
work that takes a lifetime. It is not a thing to be treated as you feel! And
so, the wise queen refused to have the dignity that was meant for her and her
husband to be down trodden before drunks. If the king could be so foolish
enough to be an indecisive instrument under the influence of fools on how to
manage the affair of his home, then he was not worthy
to be obeyed by a wise wife. While Vashti blatantly refused the whim of the
king, God overruled the circumstance for the deliverance of the Jews who could
no longer stay under the authority of an
indecisive husband and king, because they are holy nation.
It is quite unfortunate that not every woman knows
her beauty is not an instrument of adultery but divinely given for the deliverance
of her generation. She would flaunt it and make herself a subject of ridicule
before a bunch of fools who would tread on her dignity with words of
foolishness. Vashti was beautiful. She knew what to do with her beauty. She was
never a foolish wife who would choose to please the drunken king’s desire and
cause to anger, the giver of her beauty. She was a heroine and a mental
liberation for other wives in her time. In so much that before Munican could
advise the weak king on how to manage his home and empire (Esther 1:16-21), the
wives and women had already knew their right in the Lord, the giver of beauty.
Though, Vashti, to some thinkers, lost the crown but I would say she only left
the throne of shame for the garden of grace. Do not be deceived, your virtue,
as a human, is never in the position you occupy but in every decisive stand you
can independently take as a rational being.
“And on the seventh
day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine…” (Esther 1:10-11).
Solomon said, “Wine is a mocker”. After seven days of alcohol, Ahasuerus made
the funniest verbal slip that he ever lived to regret. How could he have done
that? Women’s beauty is never for show before the fools or inglorious drunks.
The beauty of every woman is the presence of the Lord with her and therefore will be outrightly unholy to parade God’s presence before stinking drunken
fools. He forgot that a king is only honorable when there is a wise queen.
Fortunately, the God of the Jews, the living God, overrule
the circumstance with another presence of His with Esther for the deliverance of His people. But the king regretted his foul
decision made under the influence of alcohol because he knew afterwards that he
had lost a great virtue (Esther 2:1).
For that beloved husband who think that as long as the Bible supports the subservience of his wife towards
him, he could do and undo with the beauty of his wife. Have you not realised
that you have being fumbling with God’s presence on your wife? You would always
quote the Bible wrongly, telling her that she must do your dogmatic will because
the Bible says it. “Wives submit
yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord” Ephesians 5:22.
Though, you always quote the b-part
of the verse to compel your wife to obey you against the Lord. Every wise wife
must obey her husband as unto the Lord _ she must not do what the Lord would not
have her do because of her husband. Do not manipulate the presence of God on
her for your selfish interest.
