A Story of the Eagle’s Nest James 1:2-5 2: My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3: knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4: But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and Complete lacking nothing. 5: If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all Liberally and without reproach and it will be given to him. 6: But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like A wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7: For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8: he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. • When the mother eagle is expecting her young, she prepares a large nest high on the edge of a cliff. She fashions it out of giant branches and sharp thorns. She then fills it with layer upon layer of soft feathers. So when the baby eagles arrive they get all comfy-cozy in the nest so that the baby eagle doesn’t have to do anything! Most Christians stay at this level! They don’t won’t to get out of their comfort zone! And they will never reach their potential! • As the baby starts to grow do you know what the mother eagle does? Each day she removes a few more feathers until, finally, the nest becomes unbearable. She does this deliberately, knowing full well that unless she forces her little ones out of their comfort zone, they’ll never take that leap of faith. They’ll never know what it means to soar like a eagle! • Well, finally the little eagles can take it no longer. They climb to the edge of the nest and look down into the giant chasm below. Their hearts are gripped with fear, but what’s inside of them gets so bad, that the unknown could hardly be worse than this. They mount their courage and take the leap of faith, realizing that their wings are completely untested. They have no skill, no experience, and no backup plan. They have absolutely no cause to have confidence. • The baby eagle continues plummeting toward the earth, and just when it seems all hope is lost the mother eagle swoops underneath them and allows them to mount up on her wings. For the first time in their life they know what it means to soar. • From that moment on, there’s no holding them back. Their free from fear. Being full of Confidence! Knowing that their parents will watch over them till they are full grown and able to take care of themselves! • God allows affliction and adversity to mature us and make us use our wings. It is not His goal to always keep us warm and comfortable. There are times he will allow us to go through hard times. This is when we have to mount on our wings as Eagles and trust that our God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we ask or think! Isaiah 40:28 - 31 28: Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, The LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is Weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29: He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He Increases their strength! 30: Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men Shall utterly fall, 31: But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. In His Service Pastor Steve
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:45:43 +0000
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