Hebrews 11:24-26

Main Thought: We all know very well the story of Moses, a child rescued from the Nile River by Pharoah’s daughter and raised among the royal family as her son. However, in time Moses discovered that he was not an Egyptian by birth, but was of the Hebrews. We are told here that Moses, rather than choosing to stay among the Egyptians with an accompanying life of riches and ease, chose instead by faith the pains and afflictions of God’s people. What a striking example of someone who walked by faith and believed in the only true God, and did not choose temporal ease and pleasures and remain among the pagan gods of the Egyptians. He understood by faith that the reward that would come to him was eternal, “greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt.” Like the Egyptians, most in our world are choosing the pleasures of this world, the kingdom of here and now, ignoring the eternal consequences of the sin and pleasure that is leading them down a wide path (Matt. 7:13) to destruction. There are many in Hebrews 11 who demonstrated this same walk of faith in the eternal God as Moses did, living as light, not darkness in a perverse world that disdained them because they walked with God and lived by faith before them. But Moses’ testimony, and all the rest of these Old Testament saints, is a testimony for all of us to not be “conformed to this world, but be transformed” (Rom. 12:2). The question we must ask ourselves is are we, as Moses, choosing to walk by faith with God, looking to our eternal reward, or are we instead choosing “Egypt,” valuing this world above Christ and the eternal reward He has prepared for all His children? It is a question worth asking, for the answer reveals whether or not we have faith in God or have a love first for this world. I pray that you and I will continue to choose reproaches in Christ above this world and culture, revealing that we truly “walk by faith, and not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7).