“Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”
Mark 16:3 NIV

The women, who followed Jesus to Jerusalem, to Calvary, and finally to the tomb were totally devoted to him. Motivated by gratitude and love, they bought the necessary spices to anoint his body and waited for the Sabbath to be over. Very early, just after sunrise, as they were on their way to the tomb, they wondered aloud how they would accomplish their mission. They had seen the Roman soldiers secure the tomb with a large stone and had no idea how they were going to roll the stone away. And yet they went.
When they arrived, the stone had been rolled away and an angel told them to “go”~ Go and tell the disciples, "He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you”. Redirected by God, they had a new mission!
So it is with our missions in life~ whether in a foreign land or in our neighborhood~ we gather what we need, we set out, and we wonder how we will "roll the stone away". There are always obstacles that seem too big, too overwhelming for us to accomplish what we believe God is calling us to do. In human terms, it is not possible, but God has a plan that we can’t even imagine.
Think back to the women who came to anoint the body of Jesus~ it wasn't even there. But God had a different mission for them; their mission was to “go and tell”. That is always our mission. No matter what else we are supposed to be doing in this life, we have the great commission to “go and tell”~ tell others that Jesus is risen and will meet us in our deepest need.