Joseph had seen his dreams come true when his brothers and parents did indeed bow down to him in Egypt. However, he was looking beyond this. He saw that God had a greater salvation, and he looked forward to the day when they would return to the land promised to them by God. We may receive promises from God, we may have ambitions, we may receive words relating to our own service of God. This can be good, but whatever God may do in and through us personally, we must always bear in mind God's greater plan for the church as a whole.
Moses' parents hid him when there was an edict out against all Hebrew male babies. They sought to save their son because they had a greater hope, and believed that God had a special purpose for their son.
Moses, though brought up in Pharaoh's place, refused to stay there. He had a greater purpose on his heart, to see the salvation of Israel. There are two important lessons we can learn from this. One is that Moses' actions seemed to end in failure. For the outcome was that he ended up in exile for forty years, yet the Bible here says it was an act of faith. Sometimes we do things for the best of reasons and from a pure heart, yet it all goes wrong. We should take encouragement from the fact that God is more interested in our hearts than the result of our actions. The second thing is that Moses' actions involved suffering. He put the purposes of God above his own personal comfort.
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