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CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES The Choice Tommy's Window Slideshow ♫ Turn on your speakers CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES Text by Virginia Brandt Berg

That choice is what made Moses great. Have you ever thought about the choice Moses had to make when he forsook Egypt? That choice is what made Moses great. Solomon is known for his wisdom, Daniel for his vision, David for his psalms, and Peter for his zeal, but Moses was great because of the choice he made.

“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 recompense of the reward” (Hebrews 11:24–26 KJV). We read in Hebrews chapter 11 that Moses is included among the heroes of faith in God’s hall of fame.

He was a Hebrew, not an Egyptian: Moses, whom as a babe Pharaoh’s daughter had found in a basket in tall reeds along the Nile River, was reared in Pharaoh’s palace in wealth and privilege. But when he came of age, he had to make a choice. He was a Hebrew, not an Egyptian: Would he be true to Egypt and wear the crown of the pharaohs, or would he choose his own people?

What a crisis it was for this young man, Moses! Imagine him climbing to some high place and looking at the lights of the palace as they twinkled from the imperial city—the palace with all its riches and beauty, the things that he had been used to all his life.

Then he looked south toward the pyramids, where his own people worked as slaves of Pharaoh, making bricks. As they worked to the sound of the slave driver’s whip, Moses’ heart burned within him.

They were his people, but if he chose to be one of them, he would have to forget all the comfort and luxury he had always had; he would wear the despised garb of the slaves and renounce forever his foster mother, Pharaoh’s daughter. But he made his choice, as God’s Word says, “to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”

Now these “pleasures of sin” were more tempting than one might think from this simple statement, because Egypt at that time was the most attractive spot on earth. Her granaries were bursting with grain, and the wealth of the world poured into her treasury— and Moses could have been heir to it all!

“He had respect unto the recompense of the reward.” Moses had been educated “in all the wisdom of the Egyptians” (Acts 7:22), so he knew exactly what such a choice would mean: turning from the possessions of the mightiest empire on earth to slavery. But he was not only educated and wise, he was farsighted; he was willing to sacrifice present pleasure for future gain. “He had respect unto the recompense of the reward.” Hebrews 11:26b In other words, he knew that the pleasures of sin were only for a moment, but God’s reward for choosing rightly was for all eternity.

This is the choice that Moses made too. Moses understood that without God’s favor a millionaire is only a pauper. The apostle Paul wrote of Jesus, “Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor” (2 Corinthians 8:9). This is the choice that Moses made too. Moses’ choice entailed poverty and suffering and terrible humiliation, but he decided he would rather be the least of God’s children here and wear a crown forever in Heaven (James 1:12; Revelation 2:10). And so he took a stand with God’s children, that he might stand with them before the eternal King.

Standing with Moses on the steps of the palace it may have looked like a foolish choice, but standing on the steps of the throne of God in Heaven, as Moses looks back, what a wise and glorious choice it was! He became one of the world’s greatest leaders, and his influence reaches to this very day.

They sell out the future for the present. So many today are short-sighted when they make their choices; they can see only the present. They sell out the future for the present. They’re blind to the reward that could have been theirs.

What about your choices? Do you suffer from short-sightedness of the soul, spiritual myopia, where you’re living mostly for the present? Or do you keep your heart and mind on the great reward God has promised to those who put Him and His kingdom first?

Are pleasures blinding your vision to the great reward God has in store for you? The realities of eternity are pleasures forevermore! God loves you and has great plans for your life, but He leaves the choice to you. Make the right one!