Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. (Exodus 7:7 ESV)
Fear Not… No Excuses
It wasn’t just that Moses and Aaron spoke to Pharaoh… they spoke to Pharaoh even though they were afraid. Moses had a bad history with Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Knocking on the Palace door with expensive demands would cause anyone’s stomach to knot up. But they did it, they obeyed God.
It wasn’t just that Moses and Aaron spoke to Pharaoh… they spoke to Pharaoh even though they were inexperienced. They did not have the Pentateuch to study and understand how God works. They did not know God as well as we do, He was new to them, unknown to them, unproven to them. But they did it, they obeyed God.
It wasn’t just that Moses and Aaron spoke to Pharaoh… they spoke to Pharaoh even though they were old. Do not confuse their advanced age with the advanced years of the Patriarchs. Moses and Aaron were in the same physical condition that men of eighty or eighty-three years old would be today, but without modern technology. But they did it, they obeyed God.
What’s your excuse?
Fear not, no excuses.