The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Iboliest of 2W 457
CVII.
MOSES, AND THE DECISION OF FAITH.
XI. 24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh s daughter ;
25. Choosing rather to be evil entreated with the people of God, than to
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26. Accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures
of Egypt for he looked unto the
;
recompense of reward.
WE all live by faith. What we love and live in we believe in.
He that trusts and yields himself to the visible and the temporal
lives an earthly, fleshly life. He that looks to the unseen and
the eternal, and joins himself to it, lives a divine, a heavenly life.
Between these two faith has ever to make its choice. The
clearer and more deliberate, the more conscious the decision is
for the unseen, the more will the faith in God be strengthened
and rewarded. The great difficulty in making the right choice
lies
in the fact that, by the victory which things seen and sensible
gained in paradise, our eyes have been blinded, and the things
of time, even where we acknowledge them to be of less value,
have acquired, in virtue of their continual presence and their
pressing claims, superior power. The great work faith has to
do, and the best school for its growth and strength,
is the choice
of the unseen.