MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS August 11 1997 Vol. II Number 29
An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle’s egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life, the changeling eagle, thinking he was a prairie chicken, did what the prairie chickens did. He scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. He clucked and cackled. And he flew in a brief thrashing of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that’s how prairie chickens were supposed to fly.
Years passed. And the changeling eagle grew very old. One day, he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. “What a beautiful bird!” said the changeling eagle to his neighbor. “what is it?” “That’s an eagle - the chief of the birds,” the neighbor clucked. “but don’t give it a second thought. You could never be like him.” So the changeling eagle never gave it another thought. And it died thinking it was a prairie chicken.
Not like the prairie eagle who was grounded, God intended for us to soar on wings and to enjoy a maturing fellowship with him. Like the eagle when we soar with him those who observe are impressed with your ability to traverse difficulty and to fly above disaster. What a joy to be an eagle in God’s great universe and to soar with him. Let’s grow on to maturity, as we talked about on Sunday
“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5
