None can tread this vain world
beneath their feet. It was by faith that Moses, when
he grew up, refused to be treated as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
He chose to share the oppression of God's people instead of enjoying
the fleeting pleasures of sin. He thought it was better to suffer
for the sake of the Messiah than to own the treasures of Egypt,
for he was looking ahead to the great reward that God would give
him. Hebrews chapter 11, verses 24 to 26. Worldly pomp is very dazzling. Worldly luxury is very entrancing. Worldly pleasures are very ensnaring. But there is an arc of safety
in the flood of worldly vanities. Moses is neither dazzled, nor
entranced, nor ensnared. He looks above and sees a splendor
far more bright. He deliberately chooses scorn
and affliction and loss and poverty with the people of God. And He
finds such scorn to be the truest honor, such affliction to be
the purest joy, such loss to be the richest gain, such poverty
to be the most enduring wealth. Reader, it is an important principle
that none can tread this vain world beneath their feet until
by faith they see the all-glorious world above their heads. When
the Lord is set before you, your eyes are dim to lower objects.
The beauty of the All-Beauteous One makes other loveliness unlovely. Moses proves the mighty energy
of soul-elevating, soul-purifying faith. This stirring principle
turns his whole course from ease and affluence and self into one
stream of love and devotion to God.