There is a tender phrase in Exodus 2:6: “The babe wept.” Those tears touched the heart of the daughter of Pharaoh. She had compassion on the babe and in the plan of God he became her adoptive son but was nursed by his own mother who was, in turn, paid wages for rearing her own child. (Ex. 2:7-10) How wondrous are the ways of God. In the sovereignty of God, Egypt provided for the welfare and future education of the one who was later to be instrumental in the destruction of the Pharaoh. Faith has wide horizons. In the faith of Moses, he knew that the pleasures of Egypt would not last. But then, neither would the afflictions of the people of God! The pleasures of sin, in their brevity, would result eventually in eternal loss and woe. Suffering with God’s people was a definite path to peace and fulfillment. To faith the alternatives were simple. It was pleasures now for a season and eternal suffering afterwards, or suffering now for a little while, with pleasures for evermore.