Good morning! I wanted to share a great thought with you today that was told to me by my pastor. This brought me such great encouragement and I hope it does you too.
The Eagle has very few predators, very few things will attack an Eagle. There are a lot of birds that will try to interferer, try to cause havoc around the Eagle that’s trying to protect its nest. The Eagle will eat the eggs of other bird’s nests, they will eat those birds. If they get in front of them they will catch them and eat them. But there is one bird that gives an Eagle a fit. And that’s a crow.
A crow will chase an Eagle away from it’s nest. It will fly after it, run after it, try to cause it to leave. Dive at it. Hit it. And if it get’s behind it, if the crow get’s behind it, it will actually land on that Eagle. Take hold of that Eagle from behind it and start pecking at its neck. Pecking, trying to cause injury, hanging on for dear life. And the Eagle will fly and soar, but it has no way of getting the crow off it’s back.
So what does the Eagle do?
Does he land and take a risk of other crows coming and jumping on him and killing him?
He doesn’t do that.
He soars higher; he doesn’t try to fight the crow off. The Eagle just starts going higher, higher, and higher.
An Eagle can fly up to 10,000 feet. That’s as high as some airplanes.
But that old crow hangs on as long as he can. But the higher the Eagle gets, the less oxygen there is. Eventually that crow falls off. Deprived of oxygen and falls off the Eagle.
The Eagle is free to soar.
When old Satan jumps on us, and giving us a fit, and he gets on us and we can’t seem to get him off. Go higher. Don’t go lower. Don’t try to roll around and fight with him. Soar higher and go closer to God. Grow closer to God. Get closer to God. Pray. Ask God to intervene, and get closer to him. Eventually that old devil will have to let go, he can’t stand it when you get that close to the Lord. He’ll have to let go, and be off your back.
Of all the times I could pick an animal to be during my lifetime, I’ve never thought about being an Eagle before. Maybe a big cat, an otter, or a water rat, but never an Eagle. Until now. When someone ask me about what animal I’d like to be, or what animal is my favorite, now I say an Eagle. And when they ask why, it gives me an opportunity to tell them these encouraging words.
Fly high like an Eagle.
Isaiah 40:31 KJV “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.”
Amen.
