(CONTINUED. FROM BEAUTY TREATMENT 1)
I was shocked to my marrows when I got to the place and discovered that Hegai had actually given me the most luxurious apartment in the Harem.
Not only that, he also gave me 7 girls from the palace as personal maids to attend to all my needs!!!
This was beyond my imaginations, it's simply unbelievable!!!
As if that was not enough, I was treated with a great deal of care and caution...I couldn't eat anyhow, dress anyhow or speak anyhow (I wasn't permitted to grow wildly... eunuch Hegai saw to it that I ate nothing apart from the special menu he ordered for me and he was always there to remind me the reason for which I was brought to the palace...I was practically shut out from what seems like 'enjoyment' to others but as far as Hegai was concerned, they are frivolities that will shift my focus from the real thing for which I was brought to Shushan Palace -the throne!
I submitted totally to his moulding hands, trusting God in him that he is more experienced than I am...
Apart from the fact that Hegai has been trained in doing this, I believed that God is not wicked, No! He is ever loving and His thought towards me are of PEACE and not of EVIL to give me a GLORIOUS FUTURE!
GOD IS ever Faithful and I'm sure HE wouldn't have allowed me to be brought to the palace and into the hands of this particular eunuch if He doesn't have something important to bring out of it...
I trusted God and I obeyed every instructions without questioning Hegai's authority, I received every corrections with joy!
Hegai favoured me for the Beauty treatments...
And I need not forget that my Uncle had instructed me earlier before coming to the palace that I musn't tell anyone I'm a Jewess, as a result of this, it wasn't possible for anyone to trace my origin throughout my stay in the Harem. Even when the other virgins gossiped about me among themselves, they usually ends with '... no one even knows where she comes from...'
I must not forget to tell you that within a short time, the effect of the beauty treatment started reflecting on me in every aspect, making my skin to come out glowing and beautiful...I knew it was the result of my being separated from the rest, most especially because I was on a special diet different from what other virgins were feeding on...
I was growing to becoming the King's pride!!!💃💃💃💃
"I need to let you know that even though my Uncle wasn't with me in the Harem, his words and instructions were always flooding my mind daily...
It's as If, I wore them inside my heart like a garment...(I learnt from him later that he came daily to the court of the Harem, since they can't allow anyone to get into the main Harem, he would strolled to the court of the Harem to ask about my welfare...he never left me alone even when I couldn't see him, he was always there... every single day and I never knew it!).
The enduring months of treatments passed by slowly (seems like forever)...
The pain and discipline in the period of making that lasted for a whole year cannot (did I say cannot??? Infact, it CAN NEVER EVER...) be compared to the pain and sorrow that awaits any virgin who eventually ends in the hands of Shaashgaz, the eunuch in charge of another Harem meant for concubines... and there she will spend the rest of her life!
The thought of ending in the other Harem with eunuch Shaashgaz always sent cold shivers down the spines of all the virgins except mine... you wonder why???
I had this strong confidence that I'm not meant for Shaashgaz harem! When I wake up each morning, I perceive the re-assuring voice of JEHOVAH deep down in my heart as I commune with Him in devotion that 'I AM MEANT FOR THE THRONE'!!!
Several days rolled into weeks and weeks into months with the news of virgins in large numbers, ending in Shaashgaz Harem!
I kept trusting in God and fed on nothing else aside the special menu ordered for me by Hegai...
My time to visit the King's Chamber eventually came...!
The fact that many in their hundreds or thousands had gone before me and had failed fairly or woefully didn't move me...
The wailing of the previous night by the last virgin before me, who failed to please the King didn't move me...
The fact that I didn't hear the gists of the latest walking steps from other virgins didn't move me...
That each of us have just a night to spend with the King did not move me either...
The only thing that moved my heart were the words of JEHOVAH spoken to me and displayed by the trainings of Hegai...they became the tune my heart sang to as I journeyed the path to my fulfilment according to God's purpose for my life...
(HEBREWS 12:11 👉👇
For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness--in conformity to God's will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God.)
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