I ’m amazed at how often people claim to have discovered the “fountain of youth.” Month after month, year after year, magazine covers and book jackets tout the latest and greatest longevity secrets. Scientists come up with genetic keys, and nutritionists proclaim the one…or two…or seven foods that guarantee long, healthy lives to those who eat them. Fitness experts invent exercise plans that promise to keep us young, slim and agile at any age. | Although good nutrition and exercise really do help, no one has yet come up with a guaranteed life- lengthening, youth-renewing plan that provides people in their 80s, 90s, hundreds and beyond the strength and
vitality of people half their age. | No one, that is, except Moses.
His secret for long, strong life, echoed throughout the Bible, is the only one that really works. He proved it beyond any doubt by staying youthful to the ripe old age of 120. Moses practiced what he preached. Despite his rugged life in the wilderness and his potentially high-stress job of leading a million-plus cantankerous, unbelieving people to the Promised Land, he tapped in to a fountain of youth that kept him young year after year, decade after decade. He found a source of life-renewing power that kept him sharp-eyed and physically strong 20 years beyond the century mark.
What was Moses’ secret? What was the force that kept him going so strong for so long?
It wasn’t a particular gene. It wasn’t a certain kind of food (although I’m sure manna was perfect). It wasn’t some kind of super-duper exercise program (though the Israelites’ walking program was exceptional)! It was the living Word of Almighty God. It was the Word Moses received on Mount Sinai in the midst of the fire of God’s glory, the Word he believed and obeyed (with one rock-striking exception) from the time he was 80 until his mission was finished 40 years later. It was the Word of God that prolonged Moses’ days.
- this article by Gloria Copeland is an excerpt from “Protecting Your Fountain of Youth” – Believer’s Voice of Victory Magazine June 2010.The Word from God was his life. It protected him, preserved him, and kept him going… and going…and going.
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