Moses Last Hurrah

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

Nu 31:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

 2 "Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

 

Not many people are privy to this kind of information. Moses is given a glimpse of when God is going to call him home. God has given him one more assignment to complete before his day will come. This would be Moses’ last hurrah.

 

I’m 77 years old and have just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and these words from Numbers got me to thinking: What will be my last hurrah? And please I’m not looking at this from a fatalistic standpoint.  But I wonder: What will be the last thing God desires to use me for?  What is the last thing He has prepared for me to carry out before the “sweet chariot” swings low to carry me home?

 

Eph 2:10 tells me He’s got something me and for you! For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

 

I don’t know what it is, but I know I won’t find it by sitting on my trembling Parkinsonian hands. Our first and last hurrahs are always found in trust and obedience of God’s Word.

 

Lord give me the eyes to see and the resolve to do whatever you set before me today, and if there is any “hurrah” in that, let it be for You and Your glory.

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word