Today

Moses had everything a man could want. He was raised in Pharaoh’s house, with all the treasures of Egypt at hand. Hebrews says he gave it up. “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.”

Notice the word “choosing.” No one forced him. He weighed it up, and he chose affliction with God’s people over the pleasures of Egypt. And he counted the cost in the light of eternity: “Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.”

How could a man make that kind of choice? The last verse tells us. “For he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.” Moses could not see God with his eyes, but he lived as though he could. The invisible God was more real to him than the visible treasures of Egypt. I have to be honest: the visible things are often louder to me than the invisible ones. That is exactly why I need this verse.

I am thankful that faith lets me see what the world cannot. The pleasures of sin last for a season. The recompence of the reward lasts for ever.

What are you choosing today? Choose as seeing Him who is invisible.