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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away. Mark 16:2-4.
The women had risen "very early," that they might seek Him without fear and loss of time. Neither the guard, nor the large stone, which they could not roll away, nor the seal, which the Pharisees had put upon it, nor any other anxiety could deter their ardent love. Oh, when love seeks, it always finds, for it ’’believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," that it may reach the goal. Love says, "I must find Him; I must have Him, even though there were a thousand stones, yea, mountains, in the way. " And where God sees such earnestness in love. He removes the stones that we ourselves cannot lift, and casts into the sea the mountains that we ourselves cannot cross. Although you find great stones on your way, and many hindrances in your course, as the women at the sepulcher, yet if you do not find Christ at once, wait longingly, arise early and do not give up until you have surely found Him. You may each day have an Easter-morning, an Easter joy, if you each morning arise early and seek as longingly, wait as untiringly, and yearn as intensely and ardently for the risen Savior, as did Mary. "He that seeketh shall find. "
He lives to silence all my fears.
He lives to wipe away my tears,
He lives to calm my troubled heart,
He lives all blessings to impart.
