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Seeing Him Who is Invisible, November 29
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh’s daughter.... By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing
the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Hebrews 11:24-27
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Moses ... lived as seeing Him who is invisible, and was therefore able
to count the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.
If men would live in this way, we should see their faces aglow with the
glory of God; for they would be viewing the glory of the eternal, and by
beholding, would be transformed into the image of Christ.
Our minds take the level of the things on which our thoughts dwell,
and if we think upon earthly things, we shall fail to take the impress of that
which is heavenly. We would be greatly benefited by contemplating the
mercy, goodness, and love of God; but we sustain great loss by dwelling
upon those things which are earthly and temporal. We allow sorrow
and care and perplexity to attract our minds to earth, and we magnify a
molehill into a mountain.... Temporal things are not to ... engross our
minds until our thoughts are entirely of the earth and the earthly. We are to
train, discipline, and educate the mind so that we may think in a heavenly
channel, that we may dwell on things unseen and eternal, which will be
discerned by spiritual vision. It is by seeing Him who is invisible that we
may obtain strength of mind and vigor of spirit....
In whatever place we are called by the providence of God, we may
confidently expect that God will be our helper. We are not to be a toy
to circumstances, but to be above circumstances.... When we are placed
in trying positions, and find things about us that we do not like, that try
our patience, and test our faith, we are not to sink down in despondency,
but to take a firmer hold upon God, and prove that we are not setting our
affection on things on the earth, but on things above; that we are looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus is to be the beginning
and the end, the first and the last. He is to be our strength in every time of
trial.
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