For you and me, Jesus is our golden scepter. If you think this story through you can see that we are like Esther, but instead of coming before a human king, we come before the Holy God, creator of all there is. We have rebelled against him, rejecting and hating the very idea that we are accountable to Him, the Judge of all mankind. Our guilt has condemned us, “for we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”. Romans 3:23. “But”, and there is a but; those who believe in Jesus and are committed followers of him will know the golden scepter of acceptance extended to them by God, through faith in Christ and God’s love and grace. “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”. Romans 8:1 “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one”. John 10:28-30