What your senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell—inform you, shape your character, your conduct, your values, and your lifestyle—depending on how you process, filter, respond or react to your sensual input. Moses’ biographical sketch illustrates this.
“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 than to enjoy 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. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel” (Hebrews 11:24-28).
Moses’ spirit, soul, and body were immersed in the grandeur of Egypt, but he survived
his total immersion in the pagan culture of Egypt because “he saw Him who is invisible”
(v. 27).
Inundated by the American secular culture through the educational system, technology and social media, millions of Americans—even many professing Christians—are drowning and drifting away from faith in God as a result.
But survival is within reach. Like Moses, by faith, we need to see “Him who is invisible” to save us from the morass or mess of the worldly culture that is dominant in America today.
We can do this by fixing our eyes on Jesus. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).
Are your eyes fixed on Jesus, or focused on the American Dream, the focal point of the American culture?
