Faith In The Invisible! Moses, the son of Hebrew slaves, was rescued from the river and brought home by Pharaoh’s daughter. This gave him access to the full privileges of a member of the royal family. Yet Moses made the choice to be a Hebrew. This was long before Moses saw the burning bush or talked to God on Mt. Sinai. At that point in his life, as far as we know, he had no communication with God. There was no Bible for him to read. All Moses had were the stories of his people, passed down for generations. That was all he needed to make a lifelong commitment to God. We have far greater resources for our faith than Moses. We have the completed Word of God which we can read and study. We have the indwelling Holy Spirit to help us understand and apply the Bible to our lives. Yet despite those wonderful blessings, there are still times when we struggle to make the kind of choice that Moses did. That is why the testimonies of God’s people—stories like the life of Moses—that we see in the Bible are so important. They remind us that even when the way forward is not clear, as long as we are following what God said, we can be assured of the result. The challenges of our day require that we have men and women who can see the invisible and do great things for God. We must not allow what we see in the visible world to overpower our faith in the invisible. Look what the stories passed down to Moses enabled him to do, “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible” (Heb 11:24–27).
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 17:47:18 +0000