“Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”
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By faith Moses. . . . chose.” Faith rests on promise; to faith, the promise is equivalent to fulfillment; and if only we have the one, we may dare to count on the other as already ours. It matters comparatively little that the thing promised is not given; it is sure and certain because God has pledged His word for it, and in anticipation we may enter on its enjoyment. Had Moses simply acted on what he saw, he would never have left Pharaoh’s palace.
But his faith told him of things hidden from his contemporaries, and these led him to act in a way which to them was perfectly incomprehensible.
Truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
But now they desire a better country, that is a heavenly.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
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