That Thing We Cannot Do

Mark 16:3 KJV
And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

• The women agreed on a time to be at the tomb
• The women rose up early to be at the tomb at first light and
• The women had purchased. Spices with which to anoint Christ's body

But they had not found someone to roll away the stone. Despite all the rest of their preparations, this they could not do.

I doubt whether they would have been allowed to roll it away had they found someone who would do it for them. Pilate had put his seal on the tomb and placed guards there for the very purpose of keeping the tomb closed. But they came anyway and they came prepared to care for Christ's body.

And when they got there, that one thing that was bigger than them was already taken care of.

It's an illustration of walking by faith in Christ. While we may wonder how the Lord will do it, our concern is to concentrate on obeying the Lord and doing what we can do. We can plan, we can congregate, we can gather together those things in our reach with which to minister unto the Lord.

And we can come to where Christ is. And when we do that, the Lord will do what we cannot do.