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

Acts 7:22

For Meditation

The truth about life is this. All the education, training, and experience in this world mean nothing if a person does not have Christ in their life. Much as they are important for our physical and spiritual growth, they are useless without Christ. That is what Jesus meant when He said, “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matt. 16:26).

I strongly believe that Moses knew this truth and believed it for his life, even in Pharaoh’s court. Though he “was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action” (Acts 7:22), Moses “chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin” (Heb. 11:25). Despite the fact that Moses could have become a Pharaoh, the king of the most powerful nation in the world at that time, Moses esteemed “the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward” (26). Once Moses had turned his back to the world, he did not look back, despite Pharaoh’s fury. He persevered through forty years of wilderness training and pruning, with the invisible, but real Jesus, always as his focus (27; 12:2)

It is easy and convenient to find treasure in the world today, as always. We can easily drown ourselves in our accomplishments, position, and authority while churching at the same time. But we cannot serve two masters at the same time (Matt. 6:24). It is either we make Jesus our treasure or chose the world and what it offers. However, James warns that “friendship with the world is enmity with God” (James 4:4).

May we, like Moses, apprehend the fact that the pleasures of this world and the flesh are temporal, deceiving, enslaving, and condemning before God. It will help us to make the hard choices today to walk away from the world and its treasures, as we give ourselves completely to Christ. You will find the peace and joy that have eluded you for so long in Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace, and King Eternal.

You cannot go wrong, my friend!