the Esther paradox

"The great paradox of Esther is that God is omnipotently present even where God is most conspicuously absent. Jesus' last words were 'Go and make disciples of all nations... And surly I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matthew 28:19-20). And then, ironically, he left! Nevertheless, our Lord is omnipotently present even where he is most conspicuously absent."

-Karen H. Jobe.

{I think this can be said of now as well as in Esther's time}