Go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy.
—Esther 4:8
When we think of big happenings, we associate them with big people like Abraham, Moses, and David.
And Esther, the strikingly beautiful Jewess who was chosen to be the wife of the Persian King Xerxes. This gutsy lady’s hazardous intercession saved the Jews from extermination.
But I’m thinking of the almost-unknown Mordecai, the blood relative of Esther who raised her after the death of her parents. Esther was queen when Mordecai got wind of a despicable Hitlerian plot to annihilate the entire Jewish population. It was Mordecai who convinced Esther to use her influential position to squelch the extinction decree.
I am only one.
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything.
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
—Edward Everett Hale
What can you do that you should be doing?