When Moses was called by God to lead the people of Israel, he had already experienced many adventures. ‘I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.’ Exodus 3:10. Moving to Exodus 7:7 we have further evidence that Moses was 80 years old and his brother three years older.
But then it was another forty years that the Israelites had to spend wandering in the wilderness, a journey that should have taken eleven days. Then at the age of 120 God told Moses ‘Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.’ Deuteronomy 3:27.
Moses never did set foot in the Promised Land. He spent many years looking forward to entering the land that the Israelites had been promised, but because of disobedience it was denied to him and his whole generation.
There are times in our own lives when we can feel like Moses. We spend many years in Christian work and never see its completion. Or we invest much time into the sharing of the gospel with a particular person, but we never see them coming to faith.
We need to remember that God works in His own particular time, which is not ours. He will be the One who works out the completion of our work and witness. Our only task is to be faithful.