Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter by faith. He chose instead to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than enjoy the passing pleasures of sin. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt because he looked to the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king. 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 the people passed through the Red Sea as by dry land whereas the Egyptians attempting to do so were drowned. Moses gave up rank power honor place titles and dignities that were before him and well within his grasp. He turned his back on pleasure the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. He refused riches and deliberately chose suffering and affliction. He openly took part with an enslaved and persecuted people and became an object of distrust suspicion ridicule and hatred. He chose reproach and scorn. Moses counted the cost and his faith in God's Word moved him to see that no sacrifice he would make was so great that he could fail to break trust with what he heard of God. His parents hid him three months by faith because they were not afraid of the king's command. They trusted God would oversee the results of what they did by casting him on the water. Moses knew his ancestry and that the time of deliverance was at hand. He reasoned from the evidence he heard from God. Faith told Moses that all the dignity and greatness of rank was sheer vanity. Faith told Moses that the pleasures of sin were ruinous and displeasing to God and short lived. Faith told Moses that the rewards for obeying God were more durable and greater than that of Egypt. Faith told Moses that it was honorable to be mocked and despised for Christ and that suffering the afflictions in this regard were not evils but the schools for helping produce the character and the mind of God.

Moses exemplified the faith that produces enduring conviction and faithfulness in relationship with God. Hebrews 11 records this faith five times in connection with his life, three of them as the direct motivation for his actions. His parents, Amram and Jochebed, first demonstrated it by hiding him three months in defiance of Pharaoh's command, trusting God's promise that deliverance for Israel would arrive in the fourth generation. Moses himself acted on that same faith when, at age forty and in the full maturity of his powers, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose instead to suffer affliction with the people of God, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than Egypt's treasures because he looked to the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the king's wrath, and by faith he kept the Passover. These choices were not preferences but convictions forged through years of yielding to God. Though raised in Pharaoh's court and trained in all Egyptian wisdom, Moses never lost contact with his real family or the God of Abraham. He endured God's discipline, accepted correction, and maintained constant communion with Him, becoming the most intimate of all prophets. God Himself declared that Moses was faithful in all His house, speaking with him face to face and entrusting him with His entire estate. This faithfulness set Moses apart from Israel, who repeatedly failed through unbelief, and from ordinary prophets who received only visions and dreams. Moses' example shows that conviction is the product of an active relationship with God. Faith begins as belief in God's promises; it becomes faithfulness when that belief is acted upon daily. Because Moses cooperated with God's molding process, he could interpret God's will with full authority and lead Israel through the Red Sea. The same process remains available to every believer: God gives grace to the weak, equips them with gifts, and requires only that they steward those gifts faithfully and wisely until Christ returns.

Moses chose to refuse identification as the son of Pharaoh's daughter once he reached maturity, deliberately electing instead to share affliction with the people of God rather than the temporary pleasures of sin. He evaluated the reproach of Christ as possessing greater value than all the treasures of Egypt because he directed his attention toward the promised reward. By faith he abandoned Egypt without dread of the king's anger, persisting because he saw the invisible God. By faith he also observed the Passover and applied the blood so that the destroyer would not touch the firstborn. These actions rested on a reasoned process of weighing evidence supplied by God's Word, combined with a settled conviction that he had been called to serve as deliverer. Although his overall record remained nearly flawless, his faith momentarily failed when, in exasperation with Israel's rebellion, he struck the rock in anger, resulting in the divine decision that he would not enter the Promised Land. Moses therefore stands as the clearest biblical illustration of counting the cost, rejecting visible security, and entrusting one's future to the unseen promises of God.