Who Will Roll Away the Stone

“On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.” -Luke 24:1

Who Will Roll the Stone Away?

“On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.” — Luke 24:1

As the women hurried to the tomb carrying the spices with which to anoint the body of their Lord, they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”

Some of us face such a problem this Easter time. We would reach out to a loved one perhaps, but a great stone lies in the way. Between us and that dear one a great barrier has appeared, one so big that our puny desires appear ludicrous beside it.

Perhaps you face a hostile teenager and, with your hands full of good things sweet and special presents carefully prepared, you have hurried toward her only to be confronted with that huge stone of anger or resentment, misunderstanding, or deceit. “Love can’t find a way for me; I know, I’ve tried,” you say.

Jesus’ friends must have known some of our feelings. As the women hurried toward their insurmountable “mountain” of trouble ahead of them, they couldn’t think of anyone in the whole world except Jesus Christ Himself who had the power to roll that stone away; and that was their biggest dilemma Jesus Christ was dead! They had every right to believe He was lying there, sealed into ineffectiveness by the very stone they confronted.