Acts 7:22

New International Version (NIV) 

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin (Heb. 11:25).

For Meditation

1. Do you know that all the education and training and experience in this world mean nothing if you do not have Christ in your life? So, how educated, trained and certified are you? How intelligent and smart and accomplished are you?
2. Do you remember Moses? Have you read about his pedigree in Acts 7:20-22? Does it mean anything to you when you read that, “Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians [the world] and was powerful in speech and action” (22)? How does it sound like you?
3. But have you gone on to read from the pen of the Hebrews writer concerning Moses (Heb. 11:23-29)? Did you notice how Moses left all of his worldly knowledge, wisdom, accomplishments, power, and the prospect of becoming a Pharaoh, the most powerful position in the world at that time, for the company of the most mistreated people in Egypt (24-25)?
4. Did you notice how Moses considered and chose “disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt”, which were all his for the taking (26)? Did you consider that Moses walked away from the treasures of this world for the benefit of eternity with Christ? Once Moses had turned his back to the world, did you notice that he persevered through the most difficult circumstances of life, with the invisible but real Jesus, always as his focus (27)?
5. How about you? Has the world become your treasure? Are you drunk with your accomplishments, position and authority, but churchgoing at the same time? Do you not know that you cannot serve two masters (Matt. 6:24)? So, what will it be for you today: Christ or the world; temporal or eternal perspectives; spiritual or fleshly things?

I pray that like Moses and many others before and after him, you will come to accept, without reservation, that the pleasures of the world and the flesh are temporal, deceiving, enslaving, and condemning before God.

Therefore:  May you make that hard choice today, even now, to walk away from the world and its treasures, and give yourself completely to Christ; and may you find the peace and joy that has eluded you for so long in Christ Jesus, the only Prince of Peace and King Eternal.

You cannot go wrong with Jesus and His eternal values, my friend!

Shalom