With Wings as Eagles - God Likens Us To Eagles

God likens us to eagles, indeed God likens Himself to one. The Bible is filled with references to eagles, and mention is made of them some thirty-three times. What manner of bird, therefore, can this eagle be that the King of Kings and Lord of Lords would liken Himself to one? 
     
The eagle threads the path of the upper air in a manner eclipsed by no other bird. No other bird so perfectly combines grandeur and power with surpassing grace of flight. Like the Lord the eagle's virtues include strength, power, majesty, boldness, dependability, courage, tenderness and faithfulness. The eagle fears neither man, beast or the elements, neither does he beg for bread. God created this magnificent bird as King of the sky. 
     
A baby eagle is born with all the latent potential to make it king of the sky - to soar and glide through life with power, strength and majesty. There is just one problem... the eagle doesn't know it! The baby eagle has to be taught to be an eagle, it has to be taught who it is, what it possesses, and it even has to be taught how to fly. 
     
We too are born into the kingdom of God with all the power and authority given to us in Jesus' name, but many perish because they have never been taught who they are or what they possess, and to have faith enough to leave the safety and security of the nest. Before attempting flight the eagle bounds around the nest, jumping and flapping vigorously and hopping to nearby ledges and branches. They are at first ungainly and clumsy in their early attempts to stand. Their huge wingspan is designed for flight and requires considerable effort to master and control while earth bound. 
      
The Bible has a lot to say about standing; we, like the eagle, need to learn to stand before we can turn our attention to soaring. God works through people, people like you and me. God wants us to learn to fly, He wants us to spread our wings of faith and learn to step out on His Word. 
     
Can you imagine full-grown eagles, with all the potential to soar and wheel through the sky, but yet never leaving the nest? Spending all their days confined to that little patch of twigs and leaves, never using those magnificent and powerful wings. Why? Because they were never taught to fly! 
     
Many Christians have known and loved the Lord all their lives, yet have never stepped out of the nest and learned to fly in the spiritual realm. They have never learned to soar aloft on the Word of God, never wheeled into the world of the spiritual to merge and entwine themselves with their Heavenly Father. 

Many are content with the knowledge that they have eternal life and never go on with God. Some churches have been so bound in tradition and sheer "religiosity” that the Holy Spirit is stifled. What the world desperately needs are people (Eagle Christians) who will take God at His Word and “soar to new heights”, borne aloft by the very Spirit of God.

Oh Lord lift us up With Wings as Eagles to where we truly belong - where the eagle's fly.

*With thanks to Col Stringer, author of On Eagles Wings - a Graphic Account of How God Likens Us to Eagles. Published by Col Stringer Ministries Inc.