This coming Sunday, millions of Christians around the world will celebrate their risen Savior. But did Jesus really rise from the dead? If you are a believer, the answer is obvious. However, it is important to ask, because there is no more important historical event than the resurrection of Christ. As Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthian church in A.D. 55, “if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain and our faith is vain, and ye are yet in your sins” (1 Cor. 15:17).

Psalm 90 was written by a pilgrim. Moses, the man of God, whose prayer is recorded for us, was born a stranger in a land he knew was not his own. His parents were not Egyptians. And while he was raised by Egyptians—the daughter of the pharaoh of Egypt—he understood that he was not an Egyptian. Hebrews 11 records a pivotal decision in Moses’ life, “when he was come to years,” where “he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God.

Every baseball player eventually faces the same humbling moment. The pitcher winds up, the ball leaves his hand, and halfway to the plate it stops behaving like a baseball should. The pitch drops, bends, and disappears under the bat. The hitter swings anyway and comes up empty.