40 + 80
Acts 7:30
“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.”
Moses spent 40 years in the palace and then 40 years in the desert. That’s a balanced life!
Actually I would rather listen to someone who has spent 40 years in a desert than 40 years in a palace.
Just because you have spent 40 years in a palace doesn’t automatically qualify you to be a speaker and leader neither does 40 years in a desert automatically disqualify you from those roles either.
I would rather spend time with someone who doesn’t have anything but has had an experience of God than someone who is highly privileged but has had no revelation of Him.
After his first 40 years Moses decided to go and have a look at his fellow Israelites. After his second 40 years he decided to go and have a look at the strange bush.
His decision to go and look proved to be the catalyst for change. However there is a difference between looking at 80 years than when you are only 40 years. At 80 you have had the wind knocked out of your sails, you are not as arrogant perhaps, you have had more of the dust of life on you and the way you look at things is different to how you used to. At 80 you are ready to look at things that perhaps God would never have shared with you at 40.
I guess I really want to be 80 in a 40 year old body. I am 50 so not too sure where that puts me!
Missions Paul 