Title: Moses, Faithful Faith/ Hebrews 11:23-29
Content Moses, Faithful Faith / Hebrews 11:23-29
Key Verse: “The reproach received for the sake of Christ was regarded as greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt, for they looked to the reward” (verse 26).
God sent a child to Egypt, the land of slavery, the land of terror. Moses was born to Amram and Gebed, the Levites. The child Moses, who was born in the age of fear, obeyed his parents in the eyes of his parents (Exodus 2:2). .And it was beautiful in the eyes of God (Acts 7:20). In such a situation where a boy would be killed if discovered, his mother Jochebed hid the child in faith and raised him for three months.
After three months, it was no longer possible to hide the child, so the parents made a brown box, painted the inside and outside with bitumen, laid the child in the middle, and floated it into the Nile. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The brown box is the mother's faith and wisdom. It was the Ark of Salvation that was created by . In the end, it was discovered by an Egyptian princess, and her 40 years of living in the royal palace began.
It corresponds to the first stage of Moses' life, who lived until the age of 120. Moses in his youthful youth is Moses in the royal palace. The second stage is his adulthood, from the age of 40 to 80. This is Moses the shepherd in the Midian wilderness.
At the age of 40, he killed a man outside the royal palace, and he fled from the royal palace to the wilderness of Midian. He was not a prince, but an ordinary village man who lived through years of dust and smell, wind and poverty. Years. He was neither a prince nor a shepherd, but lived as a servant of God.
Even in the midst of numerous criticisms and complaints from the people of Israel, God was with him and led the nation to the land of Canaan. Moses' most precious life was the last 40 years of God's call. It was a period of being a slave.
The life of a faithful servant of God began at the foot of Mount Horeb, where he was daily shepherding sheep. God knew when Moses was born and when he was put in a basket and washed away in the river. Forty years after leaving the palace, all people He was a man who disappeared from his memory, but God also knew that Moses was living as a shepherd and shepherd.
That's why he came to the field of shepherding to call. God knows not only Moses, but all of us. “O LORD, you have searched for me and you know me. You know my ways and my lying down; You are well acquainted with all my actions; O LORD! There is not a word that is not understood by my tongue” (Psalm 139:1-4).
The real beginning of life is to meet God who comes to you. You can discover that there is a purpose in life and a mission in life. It is to discover what you have to do in God. God took hold of the life of Moses and Just as He moved, He grabs hold of our lives and guides us today. Just as He kept Moses in the wheel of history and finally set us up as people of God, He sets us up as faithful people of God in the traces of our lives.
Prayer: In God who comes to the field of our lives, let us know the purpose of life, the work to be done, and the way to go. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Lord's Prayer