Make a football of Pharaoh's crown!

 Thomas Brooks 


"By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and chose to suffer
with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived
pleasure of sin. For he considered reproach for the sake of 
the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt,
since his attention was on the reward. By faith he left Egypt
behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for he persevered,
as one who sees Him who is invisible." Hebrews 11:24-27

When Moses had seen Him who was invisible, when he had 
taken a full prospect of the eternal world, and when he had 
beheld God as his portion—oh, how does he slight, scorn, and 
trample upon all the honors, preferments, profits, pleasures, 
delights, and contentments of Egypt—as things below him, 
and as things that in no respects were worthy of him!

It is a Rabbinical fable, that as a child, Moses had Pharaoh's 
crown given him to play with—and he made a football of it, 
and cast it down to the ground, and kicked it about, as if it 
were a sign of his future vilifying and despising of temporal 
things.


 I shall not much trouble my head about what Moses 
did when he was a child. But of this I am sure, having the 
word of God for it, "By faith Moses, when he had grown up, 
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;" that is, 
he did little less than make a football of Pharaoh's crown! 
Witness his refusing with a holy scorn and disdain, to be called 
the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and so to succeed Pharaoh in 
the throne.


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