Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication

by Charles R. Swindoll

Most of the centenarians I do know of aren’t in the best of health. They’re blind, crippled, deaf. Not many mountain climbers are in their nineties. And Moses was a hundred and twenty! We think, My, he must really have been crippled up. But that’s not what the record states. Scripture reports that “his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated” (v. 7). The Living Bible says that “his eyesight was perfect and he was as strong as a young man.” My reaction? What a way to live! A hundred and twenty and you don’t need glasses; a century and a fifth and you don’t need crutches. Moses never did sit around in a rocking chair rubbing on liniment and drinking Ensure. He kept moving on, just as Caleb did, staying fit right up until the end. You know our problem? We get old before we’re old. We start living as if we’re ancient before we turn seventy. It’s a crime! A guy will get a Ph.D. and feel that he’s over the hill because he worked on his degree for a number of years. You’re in a going business, doing your part, and your sixty-fifth birthday rolls around. You ask yourself, Am I getting too old for this? Nonsense!