Eagles

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

Have you ever seen an eagle soar? It is fascinating. It is completely different from watching a humming bird fly. Humming birds must constantly flap their wings, but an eagle rarely "flaps." An eagle's wing span is approx. 6-10 ft. in length. Eagle's make their nests in the tallest of trees or rocks in the mountains so that they can do what is called a "wind check." They wait for the wind and then they spread out their large wings and soar on it. The wind does all of the work for them.

Two lessons could be learned from this. First, the word WAIT is so extremely important. The eagles must wait for the wind or they cannot soar. Second, the wind does all the work. The eagles rely on the wind.

Spiritually the wind represents the Holy Spirit. In order for us as Christians to soar, we must wait upon the Holy Spirit. We must learn how to fly by hearing God's voice. We must be willing to go through basic training allowing God to teach us to soar before He can activate and elevate us into soaring mode. We must first learn to use the spiritual instruments God has placed within us, just as a pilot must learn the in's and out's of his airplane.

Isa 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Isa 40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

There is an eagle nature to fly within us that can only be activated by the Word of God. The ability to soar is Voice Activated and not attained by our own strength. Once we have gone through our training we must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit by doing constant Wind Checks. Just as an eagle cannot fly without wind, so we as Christians cannot soar without the Holy Spirit. We tend to make the mistake of trying to "work up the Holy Spirit." Instead we are called to Mount Up or Look for the wind of the Spirit. Where it is, that is where we are to be. But, the most important lesson is learning to wait. Unless we learn to tune into the prescence of the wind of the Holy Spirit and wait, we can never soar.

Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

I had a vision during worship about this word...

As I kneel before the feet of God,

He knows my thoughts, He know my ways,

Upon my shoulders He slowly lays,

A robe of feathers as eagle's wings,

To take upon His rising wind,

For the journey still ahead,

I do not stand, but take flight,

Past the realms of my mind,

Into the thoughts of His alone,

I see the place His hands do guide,

I trace the image with my life,

The blood does run from His side,

From where He gathers together,

An eternity yet awaits, like the unknown,

There is found the unspoken,

To find it would be heaven,

To find it too soon would clip eagle's wings.