This story is really funny, but I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with God. It is brilliant that Haman chooses the way Mordecai is honored, thinking that the honor was for himself. I remember myself in a situation like this. As a Senior, I went to the Junior prom with a girl I hardly knew and had very little interest in, basically because I was duped by my own ego. The way it went down was like this:
A month or so before the prom I was approached by a Junior named, lets just say "Jane" who I knew well and was very attractive. She approached me in the hall and asked if I was going to the junior prom with anyone. I said nope, and she started to ask if, "as just friends," I would go the prom with... The last part I don't remember because I was already saying "sure, why not!" And then I realized she didn't say "me" she said some other girl's name who knew me from choir and was afraid to ask blah blah blah.*
So, I feel Haman's pain here where the significance of a moment makes your brain go a little heywire and you end up kicking yourself. We all know what "to assume" does.
*Disclaimer: Please don't get me wrong, I had a good time at the prom with the other girl and I certainly don't mean her any disrespect here. For some reason this event jumped into my mind as I was reading this chapter in Ruth.
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Were the girls' names Ruth and Esther perhaps? =)
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