Good Morning Friends,
“By faith Moses, when he had grown up,
refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to be mistreated
along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short
time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the
treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. By faith he
left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who
is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so
that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.”
(Hebrews 11:24-28)
Faith caused Moses to trade comfort and
wealth for mistreatment and difficulty. He did it because he longed to follow
God and was willing to accept whatever hardship came with that. Faith caused
Moses to take the long view of life. In the short view, staying in the house of
Pharaoh made more sense. His life on earth would have been better there, by human
standards. But Moses looked beyond the years of this life and chose what was
best in the eternal view of things.
Faith caused Moses to make the difficult
journey back to Egypt to lead his people to freedom. He’d given up the luxury
of the palace and found a different life in the wilderness. He had a wife and
he had responsibilities as a shepherd, but when God called Moses back to Egypt,
he went. It’s not where he would have chosen to go if he desired ease, but it
was where God asked him to go and he went.
Faith caused Moses to tell the people of
Israel to keep the Passover and use the blood of the lamb to mark their doors.
There was no evidence that anything bad was going to happen that night. There
was no evidence that blood on the door would do anything to prevent anything
that might happen. All Moses had to rely upon was God’s message. Moses believed
it and put it into practice.
Moses was a man of faith. He chose God. He
followed God. He listened to God. He obeyed God.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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