We Want To Finish Well

Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was clear, and he was as strong as ever. Deut 34:7 (NLT)

— Consider these final words describing Moses life: “But since then there has not arisen a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face” (Deut 34:10).

As you study through the life of Moses, you wouldn’t think it would end this way, described as a man unparalleled by any other man.  He had such an intimate relationship with God. One so close that it’s described as knowing him ‘face to face’. WOW!

Yes it’s true, Moses’ life started as a miraculous rescue by God Himself!  How many of us can really say that we were miraculously saved by God? All of us!

Yet, he spent the first 40 years of his life building up a sense of self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-assurance that eventually led him to take things into his own hands by killing an Egyptian. It was an epic failure. A failure of the highest degree.

The next 40 years of his life was lived in relative obscurity caring for and tending sheep. After he killed the Egyptian, taking things into his own hands, he fled to the desert where he served alone, isolated, without any attention or people to serve.  It was during that time that Moses learned how God desires selflessness not selfishness.  He learned the lessons of abiding and allowing God to do His work.  He learned the value of allowing God the time to complete His will and not taking things into your own hands.  When the time came, God calls Moses to use him to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt up to the border of the promised land.

In total, the last 40 years of Moses life were incredibly fruitful. He didn’t slow down. Earlier in Deuteronomy 34 it says that Moses was 120 years old and his eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished. He was older, but a young man at heart toward His God!!!

I want to live the last 40 years of my life sold out for God. Since I don’t know when the last 40 years of my life will be, I’ve translated that desire to just totally living for Him today!

My hope is that you’ll reconsider your commitments today too. Imagine the things you will be used to do in His name, for His glory, in His will!

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have  finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing. 2 Tim 4:6-8 (NKJV)

Finish well my friend. Please, finish well.