Esther 5:1 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s hall.
The most expensive royal dress of all times was worn by Queen Letizia of Spain. Her 6 million dollars worth of wedding silk gown was seamlessly sewed and embroidered with golden thread.
After three days of fasting and prayer the Persian Queen, Queen Esther, put on her royal robes. There was a homicide plotted against her people by the enemy Haman. Haman hated the Jewish race and wanted to annihilate them from the face of earth. Haman, the antagonistic Amalekite descendant, was the right hand to the king of Persia and he craftily conspired a mass murder of the Israelites scattered all over the kingdom. Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods (Esther 3:13). Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai knew that this was not a political battle but a spiritual battle so Esther in preparation to fight the good fight, went on 3 days of fasting and prayer before she put on her royal robes to petition for her people.
Metaphorically and figuratively putting on the royal robes of godliness brings victory over all our spiritual attacks. Fasting positions us in holiness and royal robes of righteousness give us the boldness to stand as sons and daughters of the Kings of Kings.
Put on:
1. Righteousness: The robe of righteousness is in the wardrobe of salvation. I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban (Job 29:14). Robe of righteousness is the assurance that our adamant arrogance and ugly animosity have been forgiven and forgotten by the Lord. To put on righteousness means that we don’t live in the regret or the condemnation of the past. Our rags of sins and selfishness are replaced with the righteousness of Jesus.
2. Robed: Mordecai dressed himself in sackcloth as he was distressed about the decree but he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. (Esther 4:2b). We cannot enter into the most holy place with sack-clothes of weeping and sorrow. If our prayers are only lamentations we will only be waiting at the gate of heaven. Be robbed in joy, confidence, boldness and audacity that God is much bigger than your problems. Be robbed in courage.
3. Royalty: Royal family is clothed in royal garments. Esther went to the royal courts dressed in royal beauty. Esther went into the presence of the king as his queen. Many people wear expensive clothes and cologne on the outside but are broken, abused, messed-up wrecks on the inside. Dress up your soul in regal attire.
Dress in royal garments of righteousness and be robed in royalty.
Esther 5:2 When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, help me to realize that I am royalty. I relinquish the rags of regret and put on the royal garment of righteousness. Thank you for the coat of righteousness that qualifies me to stand before your holy throne. Amen
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