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I was reading in my Bible the other

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day and I realized something noteworthy in the

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life of Moses that I had never seen

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before and it floored me.

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In Deuteronomy 34, 7 we read, And Moses

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was a hundred and twenty years old.

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When he died, his eye was not dim,

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nor his natural force abated.

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I went back and re-studied the life

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of Moses and this is what I discovered.

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Moses lived to be a hundred and twenty

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years old.

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His life is separated by three forty-year

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periods.

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The first forty years of Moses' life in

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Egypt is covered by only fifteen verses of

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Scripture.

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The next forty years of Moses' life on

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the backside of the Midian desert is covered

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by only ten verses of Scripture.

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But the last forty years of Moses' life

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spent in the service of God is covered

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by approximately 4,252 verses of Scripture.

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Surely, this clearly demonstrates that the significance of

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a person's life begins after an encounter with

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God, whereby God so transforms that individual's life

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that he spends the rest of it given

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entirely to God for his use and for

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his glory.

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A noteworthy life is the opposite of the

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world's definition and view of success seen in

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how many Oscars and Grammys and fame and

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money a person has or how many sport

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championships he has won.

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All those things are of the world and

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not of the Father.

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All that truly matters in life is to

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what degree a life is lived unto God

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and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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That's all that matters.

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What counts for eternity?