"By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned" (Hebrew 11:24-29)
If anyone thinks, today's young leaders can't make a difference today and tomorrow they need only look back at some history's handful of influencer's who girded the loins of their mind equivalently rolled up their sleeves without getting down for it, some even as teenagers, and made an historical difference. Let take a few lines to look at some instances:
-Einstein wrote his first paper on the theory of relativity when he was 16
-Mozart compose his first symphony at age6
-Joan of arc led 300 French Knights in the battle of Orleans when she was 17
-George Williams founded the YMCA when he was 23
-Lloyd Braille developed the Braille system for the blind at age 12
-George Whitefield drew thousands to the church he pastored at age 21
-J.Hudson Taylor started china inland mission when he was in his early thirties
-John Wesley birth Methodism at 17
-John Calvin started pastoring at age 17
-Josiah revitalized Israel at age 20
-Billy Graham started evangelizing in his early twenties
To mention but few, there are so many influencer's who changed the cause of their time in an early age, so you are nottoo young to start doing exploit for the kingdom. You know some of us we wantto be like so and so before starting. God did not use these two men (Peter an Moses) because of their great personalities. God use them in spite of their personalities, so you have no excuse of whatsoever.
In case you don't know you've got a job as a new generation of demostration. There is a lot of confusions (socio-economicconfusion, political confusion, churchiality confusion, religion confusion etc)in our society. Our job is to clear-up these confusions. Its about followingJesus lead and crossing boundaries. Its about our dire need for each other andfor God. So it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, it doesn't matter ifyou're male or female, it doesn't matter what you're drawn to sexually, we deserve a life free from this confusions eating deep the fabric of our society.
We are the ones who will stand up, hold hands, look at that huge river of ignorance,of tribal and ethnic difference, offear of change and say to one another holding hands we can cross that river, wecan stop these confusions. We can help everyone live in a new Nigeria where thebasic neccessities and the minimum comfort for an average Nigerian are notdifficult to be provided.
Now back to our text, "By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather then toenjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward".
The Wise Choice
When was the time of the choice? "When he had come to years". Actually he had come to the mature ageof 40 (Acts 7:22) where life proverbially begins. How do i know? The Bible says when he (Moses) was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone (Deut. 34:7). These choice is not immature, impulsive decision of youth. Not even a senile choice of satiated aged. Referring to our modernday, the youths would want to enjoy life first. we are told that life begins at 40. so we expect nothing but quest for joy which has produced over 30 million children out of school in Nigeria and over 10,000,000 addicts in the U.S. plus untold millions who live in the pseudo-realm of pharmacopoeia.
Moses' life was steeped in faith frombirth. I would like to ask our Youths, what actually do u steep your faith, your right, your kingdom authority in? Thousand upon Thousand to millions of yet unborn youths like us are depending on us base our we respond to theupsurge confusions set before us now. I am not writing to jute anybody, but to charge us to step out of the comfort zone and mundane of familiarity which hasmade us to totally snubbed our strength. The Bible says that "the glory of the youths is their strength" and in another passage it says,"the strength of the nation is the youths." Its high time we ask ourselvesmind-blowing and blogging questions, how and where are we chanelling our youth strength? Ous so-called Politicians has bought the conscience right of many ofyouths. I read recently in one of the dailies where a VC in one of our TertiaryInstitution quoting that excessive materialism is one of the source of violence and cultism in our Universities. He is right no doubt about it, but let look atthe case of a man like Moses who forfeited all the expensive cruisine, a lifeof luxury and ease and a life of indulgence to the flesh. It was obvious that Moses was the heir apparent to the throne. The scripture says, "he refusedto called the son of Pharoah's Daughter." Moses refused to be called orknown as a son of a king ( Omo Oba) and he forsake the land of riches and wealth, a place of lofty distinction as a member of a royal family, infact theking in making. can you imagine! Listen, refusing is a heart action; whileforsaking is a physical action. What do we forsake? what do we refuse?
Akinsanya Akintola
Stand-up youths Movement (A Generation of Demonstration)
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