How we need this type of faith that was evidenced in his refusal of the “fleeting pleasures of sin.” Moses is not listed in the “hall of faith because he was nationalistic or patriotic to his people, but because he chose the righteousness of the people of Jehovah over the pleasures of the gods of Egypt. How did he do it? What was he thinking about?
He realized that he was living in a unreal facade in which he was not meant to pass the rest of his life. Being the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, possible heir to the throne, having all of the pleasures of Egypt, possessing the riches – all of these were a fleeting fake. The reality in which Moses was to live was with his people, serving their God, in the promised land. Perhaps this would help us in our struggle against sin. We can realize that the fleeting pleasures of sin are not to be reality for us. We are of a different people, specifically Christians that are to be Christlike. By the way, you are not a Christ-like one by your own reformations, but “if any man be in Christ he is a new creature, old things passing away and all things becoming new.” It is Christ, by the working of the Spirit, that makes us Christian. We are a part of these people. Our God is the God of the Christians, the God of our Master, Jesus Christ. And this Egypt, this world, is not our home; we must pass over from this land to the “Promised Land.” The journey to the promised land is wilderness and difficult, but it will not begin until we forsake the fleeting pleasures of sin.
Seeing then, that the pleasures of sin and this world in which we live, are but a fleeting facade, let us forsake them to live in the reality of who we are, who we serve, and where we are citizens today.
