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Fly Like an Eagle
Posted on August 17th, 2009 13 comments
I was considering my day today as I lay in bed this morning and began feeling overwhelmed. Financial lack was crouching at my door. The hopelessness of finding a job in a town of 6,000 people jumped up and down on my chest. My struggle to find a place to plug in and minister to others gnawed at the back of my neck like a beast looking to make a kill. I heard:
“You’re not good enough, you never were. There’s no hope.”
I abandoned all form and shouted to God:
“Help! Help! Help! Help! Help!”
I moved downstairs with Psalms 3:2-4 in my head:
2 Many are saying of me,
“God will not deliver him.”3 But you are a shield around me, O LORD;
you bestow glory on me and lift up my head.4 To the LORD I cry aloud,
and he answers me from his holy hill.
SelahI made my way downstairs only to be greeted with more bad news.
“Help! Help! Help! Help! Help!”
We sang a chorus long ago that I never forgot. Derived from Isaiah 40:31, the chorus went like this:
They that wait upon 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.It was inspiring to think of myself flying like an eagle, soaring far above where other birds dared not go. I imagined myself as a large, menacing, powerful eagle who could see prey at great distances and take it with barely a flap of his wings.
I felt it then, the thermal winds that enable the eagle to soar with minimal flapping. I’m climbing the mountain, I’m near the top and I can feel the winds that lift up. So this is what those winds feel like, like an attack from the enemy. He wants to blow me over but he’s miscalculated, not because I’m going to soar but because I’m going to wait.
Waiting on Him will renew my strength and I will mount up with wings like an eagle. When the time is right, the wind intended to knock me over will carry me to God’s next lesson and to His purpose. I am waiting until I see his signature on the wind, only then will I leap into the expanse and be carried by His Spirit to His perfect purpose.
God wins.
A fitting song: I Know the Master of the Wind
13 responses to “Fly Like an Eagle”
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Very good! I certainly can identify! Keep talking to us!
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Lakisha August 18th, 2009 at 11:04
I love this honey. Yes U have recived a in depth revelation of God. The eagle is beautiful yet agressive awesme and majesticj like GOD himself thank u for writing this!
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Thank you for such an inspiring post! I know that I can certainly relate as I find myself wondering just how many miracles the Lord will give to one individual - because I’m usually in need of one.
Your timely reminder has blessed my heart! I love the the song - I know the Master of the Wind!
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Joyce Mayhan August 18th, 2009 at 13:17
You have such a gift son. No wasted words and yet so clear and concise.
You bare your soul without making it about you and losing sight of the message. You have made a perfect start to a powerful message. Proud of you! -
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Thanks to everyone for the encouraging words.
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LaDeana October 1st, 2009 at 03:42
They that wait upon the Lord!!! Isnt it so fitting that sometimes the simple things we take for granted as a child, come back to help us as adults. I remember that song as a child and as you wrote about it above, it became so much clearer and fitting for my life! Sometimes God sends things and people into our lives as children and they imprint upon us and we do not realize the extent until later in life! You are one of the ppl God imprinted upon me as a child and I thank God for your Godly wisdom and blessing you are to me today. You will never know the impact God has used you to be in my life!
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LaDeana October 1st, 2009 at 03:43
That former post was intended for Sis Joyce
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[...] ever. This is the third post inspired by the success of that series. In the first, we discussed how eagles must soar rather than flap their wings to fly. To do this, they wait upon thermal winds that lift them high [...]
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[...] This is the fourth post inspired by the success of that series. In the first, we discussed how eagles must soar rather than flap their wings to fly. To do this, they wait upon thermal winds that lift them high [...]
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[...] is the fifth post inspired by the success of that series. In the first, we discussed how eagles wait upon thermal winds that lift them high above other birds and carry them along. This is the picture portrayed in Isaiah [...]
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cool post,
I hear you with:
2 Many are saying of me,
“God will not deliver him.”This is my life at the moment and probably has been for some or maybe even a long time.
I am like hated by my family :: They would probably be happy if I died - lol’s
who knows
God Bless You
Vic
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I’m sorry to hear that, Vic, I feel the same regularly. The idea I’m expressing here is that turning toward your afflication is where all the power is, it’s never as bad as you imagine and there’s an enormous return in dealing with the issues.
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