SCRIPTURE: [After reciting the words to a 1000-word song] He said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 32:46-47 ESV
THOUGHT: Deuteronomy 34:7 says Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated. What a run.
Did you remember he spoke the words to a song over the people of Israel just before his death? According to Chapter 31, the song was dictated to him from God and all 43 verses were spoken as part of his final address to the people he had led through so much. More than 1,000 words of encouragement and warning in the song – like nothing I’ve ever written, and nothing I’ve ever memorized.
But, there was Moses at 120, facing his own death and the knowledge that he would never live in the promised land, delivering 1000 words from memory. And after the song is recited, urging them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
To the end, Moses was faithful to deliver the words of God. Often words that were not fun or joyous or easy on the ear. Words of warning and correction and even judgment. A leader who kept on doing the hard and thankless work with undimmed eyes and vigor unabated. A legacy that inspires still today, thousands of years later.
PRAYER: Oh God, help me be faithful to deliver your words too. Grant me the undimmed eyes and unabated vigor needed on this side of the promised land.
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