If we walk by faith instead of worrying about the details, we might be pleasantly surprised.
Last week was spring break for my kids. I decided to take a break myself. When the kids are super stressed, mama is too and school always makes my kids stressed. This year, spring break was kicked off by Easter. We attended a church service and heard the familiar Easter story.
But, this year something different stayed with me, and that was the faith journey of three women. In the Gospel of Mark, on that first Easter Sunday, three women rose just after sunrise to visit Jesus’ tomb and anoint his body with oils and spices. These were three women on a mission. They had stayed and watched the crucifixion and now they sought the body of their beloved Jesus.
Mark’s Gospel is famously short on the details that I crave, but it does say that the women asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” Mark 16:3
Three women, walking alone, were planning on honoring Jesus by preparing his body. They felt called to serve him. They knew what they wanted to do, but they didn’t have a plan to make it happen. There was a huge stone covering the entrance to the tomb. Who would move it?
Were they planning on sweet talking the Roman soldiers who were guarding it? Did they hope that there would be some strong men hanging out in the area of the tomb who would lend them a little muscle?
The text doesn’t say, but perhaps that’s the point. They were following God’s will for their lives. They were answering the call to serve Jesus. The details didn’t matter. They believed that God would provide and He did. All four Gospels have the stone rolled away. But, the three women couldn’t have known that.
Yet, they went anyway.
My take away from this story is that if we want to serve Jesus with our lives, we have to have faith that God will make things happen. There will be stones in our path. Sometimes the stones are closer to the size of boulders. When we know that we are approaching one of those seemingly insurmountable boulders, we have two choices.
We can give up and turn around or we can stay on the path and have faith that God will roll it out of our way. We have the privilege of worshiping the same God who moved that stone.
If the three women would have stayed home that morning because they believed that logistically it was impossible to fulfill their mission, just think what they would have missed out on. They got to play a part in the greatest miracle known to mankind.
Maybe we should ask ourselves what we may lose if we pay too much attention to the logistics and not enough attention to the voice of God.
Even when passage on the road seems impossible, perhaps we should go anyway. Who knows what God may have in store for us or what part we may have to play in the continuing story of Jesus? Let’s not miss it.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂