And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.
Pacing back and forth is not typically viewed in a good light. That type of nervousness is typically reserved for serious situations. In the above verse we read that Mordecai was doing just that. Each day he was pacing back and forth in front of “the court of the harem” to learn about Esther, his niece who he now claimed and raised as his own daughter. The situation was the Esther, being a beautiful young girl, was taken by the king and put into what can only be described as the first Bachelor show. King Ahasuerus was the bachelor now because he removed the previous queen due to her insubordination. Now he was having a contest, a beauty context, for his next queen. Esther was one of the women in the land selected for the Bachelor contest. Ahasuerus would get a chance to meet all the women and then select his choice to be his next queen.
Mordecai was nervous about this and hence the pacing. Mordecai may not have preferred this experience for his "daughter" but he couldn't stop it. He could do what he could, however. Walking back and forth served its purpose. He was hoping to “hear” something about Easter. But, notice what does happen.
Esther 2:21-23 (ESV)
In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
Mordecai’s pacing had paid off. He didn’t hear anything about Esther but he did discover a plot to kill the king. Later this very event will be used to alert the king and eventually save the Jews.
Esther 6:1-3 (ESV)
The King Honors Mordecai
On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king's young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
Sometimes we are limited in what we can do. But, when we do what we can do God will often open the door to much more in our lives. A lot has to happen between the above and the below, but this is what happens when we do the little we can. God exalts the humble:
Esther 10:2 (ESV)
And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
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