Day 121: February 3, 2026 – Esther 8-10 and Psalms 12, 14 and 15

The Book of Esther comes to a close with a lot of redundancy. Queen Esther and Mordecai save their people and the Lord establishes the celebration of this salvation as the a day of celebration in perpetuity. It still happens to this day that Jews celebrate Purim on a yearly basis. I have never been but I hear it is quite the celebration and party and Haman is vilified as he should be.

Psalm 15 is a well known Psalm and one that asks the question: who shall (read who is worthy) to enter into the sanctuary of the Lord? It is a roadmap to personal righteousness that leans heavily on moral teaching as the means to righteousness. I would have wished that the more common theme of helping those in need would have been uplifted, but as it is the focus tends to be more on doing the right thing in general.