Thursday, October 22, 2015
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There's nothing in nature I love to see more than an eagle soaring majestically through the sky. That's why I enjoy the story of the farmer who once found a little eaglet all alone in the woods. And since the little bird was struggling to survive, the farmer decided to take the eaglet back to his farm to raise him. The problem was the only birds he had on his farm were chickens, and that's who the eaglet was raised with. So, as the chickens walked around looking down and pecking on the ground for chicken feed, the eaglet learned to live the same way. Now poking around for chicken feed looks okay on a chicken - no way for an eagle to live.
So when the farmer felt the eagle was big and strong enough to survive on his own, he took him out to the back forty to help him learn to fly. Twice he tried to launch that great bird by throwing him skyward, and twice the eagle flopped to the ground and, you guessed it, started poking around for more chicken feed. The farmer had one last idea. He set the eagle on the highest fence post he had. And that's when it happened. The eagle looked up for the first time and he saw the sky. He saw the sun. And suddenly, this great cry came from his mouth, he spread those broad wings, and he took off from that fence post. At first, he just flew in small circles over the farmer's head, but then he took off for the sky, soaring toward the sun. He's an eagle! He's not born to poke around in the chicken feed. He's born to fly. So are you.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You toady about "Born To Fly."
Maybe these words would basically describe how you would size up your life these days: "It's not bad; it's just not enough." Things are going okay. Nothing's melting down. But you're inexplicably, incurably restless. There's never enough love. There's never enough fulfillment, never enough peace. Something's missing.
It could be that you're surviving, but not really living like you were designed to live. You might say you're poking around in the chicken feed like everyone else around you. But you were created for something much bigger, much higher, and your soul knows that. It's like this voice inside of you that goes, "You're made for more. You're made for more." And you'll never be complete; you'll never have peace until you live where you were created to live.
Your real worth, your real identity is spelled out in our word for today from the Word of God in Ephesians 2:10 where it says, "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." God says you were made by Him, you were made for Him and for a purpose and plan that is bigger than anything you could ever find with you running your life.
But that's why our lives are too small to satisfy us. We are running our own lives. The Bible calls that sin. And that has taken us away from the One we were made by and made for. So we end up stuck with earth-stuff that can never satisfy us rather than the eternal things we were made for. The Bible says, "God has placed eternity in the hearts of men." You were born to fly, but without Jesus in your heart, you're looking down, living on chicken feed. Sin has grounded us.
And that's why you need to be, as the Bible says, "in Christ Jesus". God's Son went all the way to a cross to die for the sinning that you and I have done. He wanted you to be forgiven. He wanted you to be in the arms of the God who made you, so you don't have to waste one more day outside the awesome plan you were made for. God's waiting to enlarge your life beyond anything you could have ever dreamed.
But you're never really asked this Jesus, who loves you more than anyone ever could, to come in and begin in your life this life-changing relationship. Let this be the day you turn it around. Get it done today! You want to begin this relationship, tell Jesus you're putting your total trust in Him right now to remove the sin that's keeping you from Him.
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You're destined for the sky; you're meant for heaven, for bigger things. It's time to look toward the Son—S-O-N—the Son of God who loved you enough to die for you.