Ellet J. Waggoner
IT is unbelief that bars the way to the good we many times would do, but leave undone. The two women who came to the sepulcher on the resurrection morning said, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?” (Mark 16:3). They, like the rest of the disciples, had been blinded to the events that were then in process of fulfillment, and their unbelief saw a great stone in their path, barring their way to the Lord. But the stone was not there; it had been rolled away by Divine power; and thus they found it when they arrived at the sepulcher.
IT is unbelief that bars the way to the good we many times would do, but leave undone. The two women who came to the sepulcher on the resurrection morning said, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?” (Mark 16:3). They, like the rest of the disciples, had been blinded to the events that were then in process of fulfillment, and their unbelief saw a great stone in their path, barring their way to the Lord. But the stone was not there; it had been rolled away by Divine power; and thus they found it when they arrived at the sepulcher.
What unbelief was then, it is now; it still sees a great barrier in the way. And thus it deludes and discourages those who allow it to work in their hearts. Let us remember that what is seen by the natural mind in the Christian pathway, is not there. So if the way seems hopeless—filled with rocks and obstacles that we could not surmount—we may know that it is simply unbelief seeking to delude us. The eye of faith will show us what is there in truth. And with that eye see the stone before us rolled away.
(The Present Truth 11, 25 (June 20, 1895), p. 386.)