04/07/2026
The "He is Risen!" texts have stopped coming; the lilies are wilting, and maybe…so are you.
The Tuesday after Easter can be one of the hardest days of the year. The peak was Sunday. The adrenaline is gone, and you're left with the ordinary Tuesday version of your life...dishes, deadlines, and a faith that has to survive outside of church.
📖 Ephesians 1:18-20
"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that he may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,"
Paul knew the resurrection wasn't a Sunday event. It was a permanent reality, not just when the music is powerful and the room is full, but also on a Tuesday. In the quiet, when the feeling is gone and all you have left is what you actually believe, we can know these things:
1. Hope is the hope to which God has called you. It's a calling, a direction, a reason to get up on a Tuesday.
2. Riches is a glorious inheritance as his people. You didn't earn it on Sunday and lose it by Tuesday. It's yours, permanently, fully, right now.
3. Power is not Sunday-service power. It's resurrection power. The same force that rolled back a stone and conquered death is available to you today, in your tired, post-Easter, ordinary Tuesday life. The same Christ who filled the room on Sunday is with you in the quiet of Tuesday.
You don't need another Easter Sunday to access what Easter means.
It's Tuesday. He's still risen, and so are you.