“Those who hope in the Lord will
renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles…” Isaiah 40:31a
James Aggrey tells the story of a man
who found a young eagle while walking through the forest. He decided to take it
home and put it in his barnyard. Within a few days the young eagle began to eat
chicken feed and behaved like the other chickens.
One day, a naturalist saw the eagle
in the midst of the chickens. He asked the owner why an eagle was living as a
chicken. “I have given it chicken feed and trained it to be a chicken,” replied
the farmer, “it has never learned to fly. It is no longer an eagle.” “Still,” insisted
the naturalist, “it has the heart of an eagle and can surely be taught to fly.”
The naturalist took the eagle in his
arms and said, “You belong to the sky and not to the earth. Stretch forth your
wings and fly.” But the eagle was afraid of his unknown self and world, and
jumped down for the chicken food.
Again the naturalist rose early and
took the eagle to a high mountain. He held it high above him and encouraged him
saying, “You are an eagle. Stretch forth your wings now and fly.” At last,
within a triumphant cry, the eagle soared away into the heavens. Though he had
been kept as a chicken, he is an eagle.
In a sense, the parable of the eagle
is the story of man. We were made to have fellowship with God, to soar with the
wings of an eagle but we became separated from God through sin that came into
the human race.
If you are a believer but enjoy the
chicken feed in the barnyard, remember you were made for higher things. As
Isaiah wrote, you cannot mount up with wings as eagles, you can run and not be
weary, you can walk and not faint (Isaiah 40:31).
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