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Moses Endured as Seeing Him Who is Invisible, March
28
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he
endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Hebrews 11:27
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For the honor of God and the deliverance of His downtrodden people,
Moses sacrificed the honors of Egypt. Then, in a special sense, God
undertook his training.... He had yet to learn the lesson of dependence
upon divine power. He had mistaken God’s purpose. It was his hope to
deliver Israel by force of arms. For this he risked all, and failed. In defeat
and disappointment he became a fugitive and exile in a strange land....
Apparently cut off forever from his life’s mission, he was receiving the
discipline essential for its fulfilment.... He must obtain the experience that
would make him a faithful, long-suffering shepherd to Israel.... In the
stern simplicity of the wilderness ... Moses gained that which went with
him throughout the years of his toilsome and care-burdened life,—a sense
of the personal presence of the Divine One.... When misunderstood and
misrepresented, when called to bear reproach and insult, to face danger
and death, he was able to endure “as seeing him who is invisible.
Moses stands forth superior in wisdom and integrity to all the
sovereigns and statesmen of earth.... He was generous, noble, well-
balanced; he was not defective, and his qualities were not merely half
developed. He could successfully exhort his fellow-men, because his life
itself was a living representation of what man can become and accomplish
with God as his helper.... He spoke from the heart and it reached the
heart. He was accomplished in knowledge and yet simple as a child in
the manifestation of his deep sympathies. Endowed with a remarkable
instinct, he could judge instantly of the needs of all who surrounded him....
Of the man who is noted for his meekness, Christ says, He can be trusted.
Through him I can reveal Myself to the world. He will not weave into the
web any threads of selfishness
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Education, 62, 63
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The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 1:1113
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