Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" ...Esther told them to reply..."I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish" Esther 4:12-16
And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:38-39
And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:38-39
What has God given me to do today? Whatever it is, I must take up my cross, and like Esther deny my instinct for self preservation, and follow him. Only then will I truly find my life.
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