Okay, so we’re five days on from Easter Sunday. Tell me, how much is the power, the joy, the awe, the wonder of what took place at Easter still resonating in your heart? Or has it kind of faded away as you’ve settled back into your daily grind?

That inexorable grind is, without doubt, one of the most powerfully destructive forces in our lives because it wears down our resolve to pursue the things that really matter.

In the mid-19th Century, a poor grocer’s apprentice in Germany, Heinrich Schliemann, dreamed of finding ancient Troy. But life pulled him into commerce. He became a wealthy businessman, working obsessively to chase profit. Decades passed. Though rich, he felt unfulfilled, trapped in the grind he once believed would bring him happiness.

Finally, in midlife, he abandoned his business to pursue archaeology. He went on to discover the site of Troy. In the end, Schliemann admitted that chasing wealth had nearly cost him his true calling. Such is the power of the daily grind.

In the same way, it’s so easy for us to get stuck in ground-level thinking and lose sight of the heavenly riches of God’s kindness and grace.

Ephesians 2:6-7 … it is because we are a part of Christ Jesus that God raised us from death and seated us together with him in the heavenly places. God did this so that his kindness to us who belong to Christ Jesus would clearly show for all time to come the amazing richness of his grace.

As C.S. Lewis put it, “Aim for heaven and you’ll get Earth thrown in; aim for Earth and you’ll get neither.”

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.