LEARNING DAILY

 

Hebrews 11:24, It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be treated as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.  (NLT)

 

Hebrews 11:27, It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt.  He was not afraid of the king.  Moses kept right on going because he kept his eye on the one who is invisible.  (NLT)

 

Hebrews 11:28, It was by faith that Moses commanded the people to keep the Passover and to sprinkle blood on the doorposts so that the angel of death would not kill their firstborn sons.  (NLT)

 

Moses has more verses written about him in the Hall of Fame of Faith than any other individual; he is mentioned ten times in the book of Hebrews.    Go back and read verses 24- 29 in order to get the full impact of Moses; better yet go back to the beginning of Exodus and read what is found there regarding the life of Moses.

 

Moses could have lived the life of luxury and all the temptations that go along with power, prestige, and popularity.  But he refused the opportunity to become Pharaoh, choosing instead to believe God, embrace his faith and Hebrew heritage (DJSB).  Jimmy Swaggart’s Expositor’s Study Bible from now on JSESB) states, “Moses traded the temporal for the eternal.”

 

 Let me add comments about what we choose to do.  You and I still choose every day who we are going to follow; choices about walking on the narrow way or on the broad way.  Hebrews 11:25 states Moses chose “to share the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin.” (NLT).  Every day the choice is to walk as a Christ desires us to walk (the narrow wat that leads to His kingdom for eternity) or to follow the ways of the world in the temporary pleasures of sin (the broad way that leads to destruction and eternal punishment in hell).  Notice the eternal consequences for our choices!  Moses chose the narrow way because he was a man with spiritual values (v.26) and he was a man with spiritual vision (v.27) (LSSB). That is the faith you and I need to live with each day as we make choices regarding the narrow or broad way to walk on.

 

Let Romans 12:1-2 be the take away today, “And so dear Christian friend, I plead with you to give your bodies to God.  Let them be a living and holy sacrifice – the kind He will accept.  When you think of what He has done for you, is that too much to ask?  Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is.” (NLT).  Our greatest desire should be to live our lives in holy worship and devotion to God.  You do so in everything you do; let your work and what you choose to do glorify God.  We choose to walk on the narrow way and not the broad way by resisting all the world has to offer because it is built on ungodly values and on human wisdom not God’s biblical pattern.  Notice that when we do, God transforms us from within!

 

I encourage each of you to be God’s light in this dark world, to resist temptation or give in to any form of worldliness (even in the church).  Allow God to transform you by renewing your mind so that your vision, values and plans are according to God’s eternal truth.  If you do, you walk and stay on the narrow way that leads to eternal life in the kingdom of God.  Your choice!

 

From now on DJSB will be used to note information or quotes from the David Jeremiah Study Bible and LSSB will refer to information and quotes from the Life in the Spirit Study Bible.  I have added Jimmy Swaggart’s Expositor’s Study Bible to be referred to from now on as JSESB