Don't Choose Alone

Good Morning!! Moses grew up with all the luxuries and privileges of Egyptian royalty. Yet, when he was forty, Moses decided to visit his brethren. Outraged when he saw an Egyptian beating a fellow Israelite, he killed the Egyptian. Defending his fellow Israelite did not bring him thanks or honor from anyone. The Israelites did not recognize him as a rescuer from God and refused his role as a peacemaker. He knew the Egyptians would denounce and punish him. And so he fled to the wilderness where he lived the next forty years as a shepherd.
 
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.—Hebrews 11:24-26 (NIV)
 
We make so many choices throughout our lifetime. Choices between wrong and right. Choices between our way and God's way. Choices between looking good to people, and looking good to God. Moses could have easily accepted his role as Pharaoh's grandson and become a part of the king's court. Instead, he made a choice. He chose to identify himself with the oppression of his own people. He wasn't ruled by what people thought. Why? Because he had faith in the promises of God given to Abraham and his descendants. He chose eternal rewards over temporary pleasures of life.

Don't miss the blessings God wants you to have,...choose His way,...it's always the Right way.

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Holy Spirit, help us make the right choices. Help us choose doing what is right over what is easy. Help us choose to please God,...rather than others. Amen.

"We must learn to deny ourselves, and our fleshly appetites,...if we are to take up our crosses, and follow Christ."