We Can Grow in Faith as did Moses

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

We Can Grow in Faith as did Moses

Today's Text: By faith Moses, when he had 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. Hebrews 11:24, 25

The Message:      Egypt, in that age the greatest kingdom of the world, offered its highest position of honor to Moses. But he did not accept the alluring temptation, "for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible."...      The strength of Moses was his connection with the Source of all power, the Lord God of hosts. He rises grandly above every earthly inducement, and trusts himself wholly to God. He considered that he was the Lord's. While he was connected with the official interests of the king of Egypt, he was constantly studying the laws of God's government, and thus his faith grew. That faith was of value to him. It was deeply rooted in the soil of his earliest teachings, and the culture of his life was to prepare him for the great work of delivering Israel from bondage....      After slaying the Egyptian, he saw that he had not understood God's plan, and he fled from Egypt and became a shepherd. He was no longer planning to do a great work, but he became very humble; the mists that were beclouding his mind were expelled, and he disciplined his mind to seek after God as his refuge. He recognized the presence of God in his surroundings. All nature seemed to be filled with the presence of the Unseen One. He knew God as a personal God, and as he meditated upon His character, he grasped more and more the sense of His presence. He found refuge in the everlasting arms. God talked with Moses face-to-face, as a man speaketh with his friend. The bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness shone into his heart and into the chambers of his mind. God was his refuge; God was his dwelling place, his home....      By faith you, like Moses, may endure as seeing Him who is invisible. The Lord desires to give you a precious experience. God has a work for you to do. You may seek after a higher sense of eternal things. God is nigh unto all them that call upon Him with the whole heart. What are the advantages and honors that the world proffers you when compared with the privileges of the sons of God? ...      The shades of darkness will soon pass away; the morning cometh; the conflict is well-nigh ended. There is a crown of life laid up for everyone who has been a partaker with Christ in His suffering.-Letter 21a, 1893 (Manuscript Releases 14:-16).

Commentary: My friend, the faith that Moses developed is the faith that we may have if we would humble ourselves as he did.  In the wilderness while tending the sheep, he communed with God and came to understand that God's presences was with him everywhere.  He had a sense that God was with him even in his lowly duties as a shepherd. We may have the same experience that Moses did if we would but humble ourselves and recognize that the presence of Jesus is with us wherever we go.  The reason why there is so little power in the church today is that we have lost sight of Jesus Christ as the Comforter.  We have lost sight of the fact that the personal presence of Jesus is with us by His Spirit, not the spirit of another. The trinity teaches us that the Comforter is another being, separate from the Father and the Son, and as such is not the personal presence of Jesus Himself.  This disconnects us from God and leads us to worship another god, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:15).  Since Jesus is the only mediator between us and God then the Comforter must be Jesus Christ through His Spirit and not the spirit of another. The belief in another comforter other than the man Christ Jesus points us to another god, a god that is not of the bible and as such leads us to a false experience of salvation.  This is why so many in the church today are not sanctified because they are looking not unto Jesus but unto a false god. My friend, when you look away from the trinity and look directly unto Jesus, recognizing that He is with you by His spirit, to comfort and guide you, your experience with Him will grow deeper and more meaningful, and day by day you will become more and more like Him, gaining the victory over sin, the same victory that He gained here on this earth.  His life will be come your life.  What a joy that can be yours if you would but look away from the false teaching of the trinity and look unto Jesus today. God bless,

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