MARK S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 16
They were saying to each other, “Who’s going to roll the stone away from the entrance for us?”
When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away.
(And it was a very large stone!)
~ Mark 16:3-4
"...the stone [at] the entrance..."
My willfulness "blocking" the entrance of His will to my heart...
A sort of self-inflicted blocking of His resurrection in my life...
...my focus on my failures in faith and obedience and willfulness...
Who's going to roll that "very large stone..." away?
"When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away."
Is this "stone" there because I haven't "...looked up..." and seen it's been rolled away?
...that my focus on me has been forgiven...?
...if I'll just "look up and see"?
It was a very large stone!
Thankfully, Jesus is bigger than any stone I might roll (or re-roll) across my heart and life...
There's nothing I've done that His death and resurrection - that God's grace and mercy - can't move from blocking my life if I'll just "look up..."
Proclaim the message everywhere...
Gracious and merciful Father God - Forgive my self-focus - my thinking that You can and do forgive others, but that the things I've done and thought can block You from coming into my heart and filling the emptiness I sometimes feel at my failure to do what only You can do within and around me... Thank You for this new day and the opportunity to pause and reconsider my wants in light of Your will... May I look up, see, go out, and proclaim Your love and forgiveness in both word and actions - to others and myself - for Your glory and honor - In Jesus's Name, and for Your worshipful praise...
For Him... for you... for yours...
