"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."
{Hebrews 11:26} (NIV1984)
When
we read the account of the life of Moses, his birth through to his death, we
can see that he was born into slavery under a sentence of death and died
outside the promised land under the sentence of God. Prosperity preachers
promise the type of life that Moses lived in Pharaoh’s household. Yet Scripture
teaches that Moses turned his back on that life of plenty because he was
looking ahead to his reward.
If rewards from God only come in our life on
earth, then Moses made a big mistake. Forty years looking after sheep on the
back end of the world, and then forty years looking after the most stubborn
rebellious people the world has ever seen, sounds like a punishment not a
reward. Moses ‘saw the invisible God’ (vs 27). He knew that God was bigger
than this earth, bigger than the heavens, bigger than 120 years of life on this
earth. He knew that YHWH was a good God, a God who rewards acts of
righteousness and so Moses turned from prosperity, ‘took up his cross’ and
followed his God.
May the LORD of hosts allow us this day to ‘see’ Him as He
truly is. May we gaze upon His Holiness and may we follow Him.
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