To participate

I'm writing in purple today in honor of Esther.  Purple is associated with royalty and Esther was a Queen. 


We had a great lesson in RS yesterday!  The Bishop taught a combined RS-Priesthood lesson cause it was the 5th Sunday. 


Bishop Huntington pointed out Esther 4:14 where Mordecai tells Esther if she doesn't go in and talk to the King about saving the Jews then relief and deliverance will come from another place.  I bet you never noticed that before, but you read it!  


"But thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"


So Mordecai knows that the Jews will be saved by God.  Maybe not even right now since he says thy father's house shall be destroyed, but he knows that God's work will still go forth.  If not right then, then later with someone else. 


My Bishop said that is the way it is with us.  God's work will go forward.  It is up to us whether we participate in it or not.  There are things for us to do--like Esther--but if we don't step up and do it, it doesn't stop God's work.  He will find others that will keep it going. 


Worth pondering.