AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

“Moshe was eighty years old and Aharon eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.”
Exodus 7:7

It was just two weeks back that I was celebrating my thirty-seventh birthday. While I do not sit here and think, ‘Where has the time gone?,’ I do question, ‘What is next?’ I remember the calling Adonai has given me and await with eager expectation what the next part is. I desire to be launched into full time ministry as He promised, but it has not happened yet. I have prayed about it many times, and it seems as though He has answered me as to the when, but not fully the how. While I know I have time to wait, though, I battle another thought. Many of the people I went to college with came right out of seminary and into the ministry. Why was I unable to? Why must I wait till this golden age before being released, and won’t I be too old when that day finally comes?
For Moshe it seems it was a little different. It is estimated that at age forty he fled from Egypt and took up the art of shepherding. But at the age of eighty, Adonai called him back to Egypt. These days, when a person hits eighty they are normally retired, not getting ready for a second job. Oh, but wait, Adonai’s kingdom is different. It is in His kingdom that age is just a number and not a restriction. So then, if that is the case, then my having to wait a few more years won’t make me old, it will make me ripe and in season. All the while, when Moshe was in the wilderness with his sheep, Adonai was training him. Adonai was getting the Egypt out of Moshe and putting the Hebrew back in him.
Adonai was cleansing Moshe, and He is doing the same with me. These past thirteen and some years since graduating college, and perhaps the few more to come, have been my time in the wilderness. It has been in these years where the world has been being cleansed out of me and the Yeshua placed back in me. It hasn’t been an easy road but it has shaped me, changed me, and made me more hungry for Adonai. The age factor has no bearing at all, for I would rather be fully ready than step out ill prepared and fail. And perhaps you too are in that same wilderness. I used to hate the wilderness, but now I am learning to love it. It is here I am being remade. And it is here He will remake you as well. Let us let Him get the Egypt and world out of us, so that He can replace it with Himself.

Exodus 6:29 – 7:7