“His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.” Where do you place your dignity when your eye still sees clearly but your strength has begun to leave? Deuteronomy 34:7 holds both truths together: Moses dies, and he is not described as diminished into worthlessness. Mortality is present without mockery; strength is present without denial.

You may seek refuge in appearing capable. You hide fatigue, soften diagnoses, or measure your value by what your body can still perform. That is a false refuge. Picture a clear eye beside an unspent staff at death’s threshold. Even Moses’s strength did not cancel the plain fact that he died. A clear eye cannot bargain with death.

Christ does not shame your aging body or ask you to pretend that death is small. In the incarnation, he took a mortal body; at the cross, he entered death’s judgment; in the resurrection, he broke death’s final claim. Your dignity rests in belonging to him, not in keeping your eye bright or your strength intact. The resurrection gives you a future beyond bodily decline, secured by Christ rather than your remaining strength.

Can you receive today’s strength as a gift, and your mortality as a summons to rest your worth in the risen Christ?