Hebrews 11:24-26, “It was by faith that Moses when he grew up, refused to be treated as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to share the oppression of God’s people, instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin. He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of the Messiah, than to own the treasures of Egypt–for he was looking ahead to the great reward that God would give him.”
Worldly pomp is very dazzling!And Worldly luxury is very entrancing!
Worldly pleasures are very ensnaring!
But there is an ark of safety in the flood of worldly vanities.
Moses is neither dazzled, nor entranced, nor ensnared. He looks above, and sees a splendor far more bright. He deliberately chooses scorn and affliction and loss and poverty, with the people of God. And he finds . . .
such scorn to be the truest honor;
affliction to be the purest joy;
loss to be the richest gain;
such poverty to be the most enduring wealth.
Reader! it is an important principle, that none can tread this vain world beneath their feet, until by faith they see the all-glorious world above their heads!
When the Lord is set before you, your eyes are dim to lower objects. The beauty of the all-beauteous One–makes other loveliness, unlovely.
Moses proves the mighty energy of soul-elevating, soul-purifying faith! This stirring principle turns his whole course from ease, affluence and self–into one stream of love and devotion to God.
1 John 5:4-5
“Everyone born of God overcomes the world.
This is the victory that has overcome the world–even our faith.
Who is it that overcomes the world?
Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!”