Third: you must determine your priorities. \u2018He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.\u2019<\/i> Much of the world\u2019s wealth during that time was stored in Egypt. So Moses already had what most people spend their lives trying to get: popularity, pleasure, and possessions. Yet God asked him to do something that was more important\u2014and he did it. <\/p>\n
It was a matter of priorities. Moses could easily have rationalised, \u2018The slave situation is bad, so I\u2019ll stay in the system and work for reform.\u2019 Most of us want to be liked, but there\u2019s one big problem with popularity: it never lasts. You can be the big name on campus for a while, but when you return a few years after graduation, you\u2019ll likely find that nobody thinks you\u2019re special anymore. Then there\u2019s pleasure. Is pleasure wrong? It isn\u2019t wrong unless it\u2019s sinful. <\/p>\n
Then there are possessions. There\u2019s nothing wrong with material success. Some of the greatest people in the Bible were extremely wealthy, including Abraham and Solomon. But Jesus said, \u2018Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.\u2019<\/i> (Luke 12:15 NIV) Ultimately wealth doesn\u2019t bring happiness. Ask the people who have it, \u2018How much money does it take to be happy?\u2019 Answer: \u2018Just a little bit more!\u2019 <\/p>\n
Money is to be used\u2014not loved! God wants us to use things<\/i> and love people.<\/i> But if we love things we\u2019ll end up using people. Moses had his priorities right; he devalued material things because there was something more important in his life\u2014namely, God\u2019s will!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Third: you must determine your priorities. \u2018He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.\u2019 Much of the world\u2019s wealth during that time was stored in Egypt. So Moses already had what most people spend their lives trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}