By faith Moses

 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.

By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. – Hebrews 11.23-29

 

Wow. Moses had plenty of ‘by faiths.’  A couple of these really stick out. He chose to give up one of the most potentially powerful positions in the world to suffer with his people. What an amazing faith choice. He knew his reward would be far greater. I could spend a while thinking about that.

 

But for today I want to focus on the notion that he torsion Egypt, choosing to trust the One who is invisible.

 

Trusting the invisible is never easy, and yet we are called on to do it all the time. Moses could not see the result of his choice but by faith he did right.

 

We are challenged the same way. In the midst of our troubles we told to not look at the things we can see but on the things we can’t see. The things we can see are temporary and will one day be gone. It is the invisible things that are for eternity.

 

It takes great faith. The visible things are just so visible! We can’t avoid them. They are right there before our eyes and yet we are called on to not focus on them.

 

Don’t get caught up in the visible, choose, like Moses, to see the invisible,