Moses found comfort in Christ

"Wherefore, you may assure yourself, that as Christ was always set before the fathers in the Old Testament, to whom they might direct their faith, and as God never put them in hope of any grace or mercy, nor even showed himself good unto them without Christ: even so the godly in the Old Testament knew Christ by whom they did enjoy these promises of God, and were joined to him. [To Christ, by faith.] And, indeed, the promise of salvation never stood firm till it came to Christ. And there was their comfort in all their troubles and distresses, according as it is said of Moses, 'He endured as seeing him who is invisible, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense of reward' (Heb. 11:26-27)." (Edward Fisher's The Marrow of Modern Divinity)

 The modern English translation of Hebrews 11:26-27 reads, "He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible."

So, you think you have had a rough week, month, year? At least you weren't a prince of Egypt who was being hunted by Pharaoh for murder and insurrection for an accident, rejected by your own people when you tried to stand up and defend them from oppression, completely floored by the direct revelation and voice of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the recipient of the divine command to lead God's people, a people you have known only afar from Pharaoh's palace, out of the heart of Egypt to the Promised Land.

If Moses considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt then why can't you consider the reproach of Christ greater than your earthly treasures? Consider Moses when God revealed Himself to him. He had hit rock bottom and went from being a prince of Egypt to being a vagabond sheep herder. He probably had heard more about the false deities of Egypt from Satan's sorcerers than he had heard about his fathers Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their covenanting God. In the blink of an eye, Moses' life completely changed. He went from being a lost shepherd to becoming a type of Christ, the ordained mediator of God's people, and the typical savior of Israel from the bondage of Egypt. He went from being a wanted man to the most feared man on the face of the planet, a man that not even Pharaoh dared to touch or imprison.

What made Moses so great? Was he not a man just like you and I? Was it not his faith in Christ that made him able to endure all of this, seeing him (Christ) who is invisible? Moses found comfort in Christ! Why don't you?! Moses would begin writing the God-breathed, authoritative, inspired Scriptures that you now have sitting on your bookshelf containing the perfect and complete canon of Scripture. Moses never saw Christ, but he found comfort in Him as the savior and redeemer of God's people from the bondage of sin. Moses did not know Jesus would be his name, but Moses nevertheless knew Christ and clung to Him by faith. Moses did not have the Psalms, the prophets, the chronicles of Israel's kings, the gospels, the acts of the early church, the epistles of Peter, Paul, James, and John. And yet, he saw Christ by faith and endured the reproach of Christ because he saw Him who is invisible.

I won't end by saying that if Moses can find comfort in Christ then surely we can. It was not Moses' human ability to find comfort in Christ, but it was the comfort of the Holy Spirit that quickened him by faith to seek Christ and His righteousness. If you are seeking the Lord, if you are looking for comfort in Christ Jesus, if you are seeking the forgiveness of sins and the Kingdom of God by faith in Christ, then the Holy Spirit has already found you. Therefore, find comfort that you will endure as you see Him who is invisible.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Cor. 13:9-13

And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."
Acts 1:10-11