LIVING WORD DEVOTIONAL
By Pastor Mensa Otabil
Friday 24th October 2025
GOD WANTS TO USE YOU
Scripture Reading: Exodus 7
Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the LORD commanded them, so they did. And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh. *Exodus 7:6–7*_
Moses and Aaron were very old men by today’s standards. They were both in their eighties – Moses, 80 and Aaron 83 – when God charged them to lead Israel from captivity. There are lessons to learn from how the Lord used these ‘old men’ to accomplish so much late in life.
We are useful to God at any age. Throughout the scriptures, we observe that God uses people irrespective of their age. He called Samuel in his early teens and called Moses at eighty. God’s grace reaches both the young and the old.
Sometimes, people who retire from service consider that they are no longer useful. If we can learn anything from Moses, it is that retiring from one service can open the door to another service. Moses retired as a shepherd in his father-in-law’s business and entered into another service as the deliverer of Israel. God is not finished with us due to our age.
God can give us another opportunity. Moses first attempted to deliver Israel from bondage when he was forty. That attempt failed. Now, forty years later and in his old age, God gave Moses a second chance.
Like Moses, you may have made a mess of an earlier opportunity. However, if we stay faithful to the Lord, He will give us another opportunity.
God’s grace is our strength. Though neither Moses nor Aaron was a weakling at that ripe age, they were also aware of the physical toll that their mission would take on them. They trusted God for grace to enable their bodies to carry the weight of their mission.
We can also trust God for strength as we grow in age. If He did it for Moses and Aaron, the Lord can do it for us.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, you hold my years in your hand. Let each year of my life be more productive than the previous one. In Jesus’ name, *Amen.
