YESTERDAY'S NEWS
Today's reading: Exodus 5-8

"So Moses told the people what the Lord had said, but they wouldn't listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the increasing burden of their slavery." Exodus 6:9 NLT

The Israelites' deliver had arrived on the scene. Plans were set into motion for the 'big move'. A way out was in the works.

But the people couldn't see it for their chains, labor and current conditions.

Isn't that what has happened this morning?

You amen-ed and praised the Lord through your pastor's entire sermon about a Risen Lord. You sat through the sunrise service and sang your best rendition of 'Up From The Grave He Arose'. You told your kids, your kids' kids and the kids at church that Easter isn't really about the Easter Bunny, but Jesus being alive again...

But this morning, well this morning, real life hits you full force, things are hard, feelings don't match up with emotions and the empty tomb isn't what you're thinking about right now. Within minutes of rising you are faced with satan's lies and mountain-sized temptations.

We're no better than the Israelites.

Our Savior has come. Our Redeemer lives. Our futures are secured. Our current circumstances are completely within His control. Our chains of slavery, if we choose to remove them, have been cut with Christ's blood.

Go ahead, celebrate Easter again this morning--He is not in the tomb, for He is risen!