Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Esther 3:7-11
by: Gabrielle Watt.
Manipulation is a skill of creatively controlling a person or situation to suit one’s own agenda. There are so many ways to exploit a situation. Perhaps a few details get changed, or pertinent information is left out, or small things get exaggerated, or a combination of the three. Regardless, more often than not, it involves playing on another person’s emotions. Haman, who was trusted by King Ahasuerus, made the Jews sound like a threat to the king’s power and authority so he would have them destroyed. It is amazing how a person’s ego can cause them to betray trust and hurt others. Have you ever been manipulated? Have you ever been the manipulator?