Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 16 verses 1 through 4:
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ 4When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back.
St Paul said, God's grace is enough for us and God's power is made perfect in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).
It is only at the moment of our greatest weakness that we learn to depend upon the sufficiency of God. This is why the admission of powerlessness over alcohol and the belief in a power greater than self makeup the first two steps of the 12 Steps of AA. The Gospel of God's grace comes to us when we realize we cannot do it alone -- whatever "it" is.
"It" is symbolized by the stone in today's Lesson. The stone is what separates us from sanity, from peace, from joy, from true life. It is what separates us from Resurrection.
These things we cannot attain on our own. They can only come to the humble, to the powerless, to those desperate enough to ask "Who will roll away the stone for us" because they know they can't roll it away themselves.
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