The other morning I was reading a blog post from the women's ministry at Solid Rock, He Speaks in the Silence (My friend Amie follows it and sends me links to ones she really likes). Here is a link to the post. I highly recommend reading it. It is about the giant obstacles in our lives that we try and move but cannot. We must give up and let Jesus move them for us. It is illustrated through the empty grave when Jesus rose.
As I was sitting and thinking about what obstacles I have in my life a sentence nearby reared its head at me:
An angel sitting on the stone, that...gargantuan...immovable...uncontrollable mountain impossibilities.
Then a few sentences later she writes:
In the ashes of your grief, in the failure of your fantasies of how life ought to be, sits Jesus. In dazzling white He sits atop that stone...immune to impossibilities...with a different idea of the ideal.
What struck me was not what has been done (which is of ultimate importance and should never be overlooked) but where the angel is sitting; where Jesus is sitting. He is not standing next to the stone, He is not leaning against it, He is not sitting in front of it, He is not even standing on it.
The angel is sitting on the stone. He has moved it, overcome it, conquered it. I picture the angel sitting with legs dangling over the edge swinging slightly, relaxed, cool, calm, and collected. Jesus is also sitting on a stone. I think He sits on the obstacles in our lives the same way the angel sat on the stone.
So today remember what Jesus has done. Remember that His grave is empty. And remember that Jesus has moved and sits on the immovable obstacles in your life.
Happy Easter!
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