November 3, the meaning of suffering.

He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth

than the treasures of Egypt,

for he was looking to the reward.

Hebrews 11, 26.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to,

but because the one who tells us to describes it

as the path to everlasting joy,

he beckons us into the obedience of suffering,

not to demonstrate the strength of our devotion to duty

or to reveal the vigor of our moral resolve

or to prove the heights of our tolerance for pain,

but rather to manifest in childlike faith

the infinite preciousness of his all-satisfying promises,

the all-satisfying greatness and beauty of his own glory

as the fulfillment of all of them.

Moses chose to be mistreated with the people of God

rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

For he was looking to the reward.

Hebrews 11, 25, and 26.

Therefore, his obedience glorified the reward.

All that God is for him in Christ,

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