The Disciple as an Eagle. Part Seven.

There are three categories of Christians:

There are Christians who are learning to walk.
There are Christians who are already running.
There are a few Christians who are already flying.

God expects every disciple to be able to fly.

Now we want to learn how the eagle begins to learn how to fly, so that we as disciples can know whether we are already flying or how we too can begin to fly.

When an eagle wants to lay its eggs, it goes to the highest branch of the highest tree on the highest mountain. There she will build her nest.

In building this particular nest, she will set the foundation with very sharp thorns. She will set the foundation with very sharp thorns, and cover them with leaves.

She will then make it very comfortable by plucking some feathers from her own body to cover the leaves, and then she will lay the eggs there. Later on, the eggs will hatch, and the little eaglets will begin to grow.

As the eagles grow, they will reach a certain stage where the mother eagle feels that these eaglets should begin to fly.

The Mother Eagle will not tell the eaglets that it is time to fly. What she does is that she would begin to remove first the feathers in the nest, and after that she will remove the leaves.

By now, the eaglets would be wondering what is wrong with their mother. Very soon, all that will be left will be thorns.

The eaglets will then begin to panic, and in fact, the mother eagle will not stop there; she will begin to push them towards the edge of the nest until they topple over, and then they begin to go down like a stone towards the ground.

The Mother Eagle will be watching and hovering around them. Meanwhile, the eaglets will be frightened, looking up and shouting for help, but just before the eaglets hit the ground, the mother eagle will swoop down and catch the eaglet and take it right back to the height again and drop it.

The mother eagle will keep on doing this until the eaglet says, ‘wait a minute, I can see my mother flapping her wings, maybe if I do my own like that, something will happen.

‘And I will try and suddenly discover that the wings are meant for flying. And that as she begins to flap her wings, she, too, could fly.

When God wants you to fly, the first thing He does is that all those things that have been making you comfortable. He will begin to remove.

If everything is fine, if you have no problems, all is just great, it will be difficult for you to learn how to fly. But when things begin to get tough, and you begin to wonder what is going wrong, many times it is God’s way of telling you, “I am going to teach you how to fly”.

At a time when you even think that God, things are getting too hot, He says all am doing is just removing the feathers. I have not even reached the leaves yet.

And then very soon after removing the leaves, He will say, I am still going to push you out of the next. I pray that whatever will not allow you to fly, God will remove today.

In Hebrews 5:12-14, the Bible says,

“For the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as need the milk, and not strong meat.

For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who, because of use, have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”.

Some of us, at times when we ought to be teachers, still want to be taught the very basic principles of God. At times when we should be eating strong meat, we still want to drink milk.

Whenever a problem comes our way, before you begin to bind and loose, you better check whether it is the devil that is fighting you or God that is trying to teach you how to fly.

When the mother eagle is pushing the baby eagle out of the nest, it is not that she hates the eaglet. She has a great purpose for the eaglet, so that the eaglet, by now, should begin to fly.

Whatever may be happening to you, remember what God said in Jeremiah 29:11, God said,

“For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end”.

The Almighty God knows what He is doing. He knows that it must be well with a disciple, but He does not want you to remain a baby forever. God said there is something I have in store for you. I have to push you so that you can get there.

David said in Psalm 119:71

“It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes”.

In other words, he said, “Oh God, I appreciate the troubles that I have been through because as a result, I have learned new things about you”.

There is no doubt about it, it does not matter how much your mother and your father love you, a day is coming when you will be compelled to stand on your own feet.

If you are a baby and your mummy keeps carrying you on her back forever, you will never learn to walk, you will never learn to run. No matter how much she loves you, one day she will stand up and say “move”.

One day, mummy is going to stop giving you milk when she knows that you are old enough to eat solid foods. One day, she will teach you to begin to eat pepper. You have to learn these things. They are for your good. The same thing is true of God.

In Hebrews 12:11, the Bible says,

In other words, when you are going through some hard times, God is preparing you for something great.

In Hebrews 5:8-9, the Bible says concerning the Lord Jesus Christ that,

“Though He were a son, yet He learned obedience by the thing He suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him”.

Jesus Christ Himself suffered so that He could become perfect.

In Hebrews 2:10, the Bible says,

“For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”

Jesus Christ himself suffered so that He could become a perfect captain.

How was the Lord Jesus made perfect? Is it through comfort? No, but through suffering, even though He was the only begotten son of God, because He came into this world.

He put on human flesh, certain impurities must be got rid of through suffering.

There was a man who was told to fast for three days. he said he could never do it, then war came, and he found himself in a pit between two armies.

The bullets were flying over his head, and he could not even sleep for seven days because he did not know which way the battle would go. He was urinating and defecating where he was, he had no food to eat.

After seven days, he suddenly discovered that it is possible to fast for seven days without dying.

In 1 Peter 2:21, the Bible says,

“For even hereunto were ye called: Christ also suffered for us. Leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps.”

In other words, we should follow in the footsteps of His sufferings. I know some of you will say What kind of teaching is this? Are you saying that disciples should get ready for suffering?

Well, you are Year 9 disciples now, by now you should begin to eat some meat and break some bones. You should know that there is no way anyone could escape suffering. God said When you pass through the fire, He will be with you.

The point is, he said “when”, not “if”. In other words, you are going to pass through the fire whether you like it or not.

In Zech. 13:8-9, the Bible says,

“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, said the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”

In other words, God is saying that among all those who call themselves children of God, only one-third will survive. Two-thirds will perish. The remaining one-third will, however, be further purified by fire.

If you do not go with the first two-thirds, if Satan did not take you away, and you are among the remnant, and you are rejoicing and praising God that you are one of the remnant, then get ready for the fire. The fire will purify the remaining one-third.

I am not the one who said so, it is the word of God. The beauty of it, however, is that, by the time He has finished with the purification with fire, he will be bold to say, These are my people and they too will be bold to say: The Lord is my God.

In Malachi 3:1-3, God made it clear that He is going to purify the sons of Levi like silver and as gold. He will purify them so that they will be able to offer him offerings in righteousness.

In other words, God is saying until you have passed through fire, you cannot serve him in a way that will be acceptable., Then you begin to wonder why all these.

The elders have a saying that a slice of meat that is already dried will never have worms. In other words, God has passed you through all the fire He needed to pass you through, then there will be no corruption available unto you again. If God is going to use you,

He will pass you through fire, red hot one, to purify you so that you can become something the enemy cannot take away from Him. Every temptation that the enemy may want to present, the fire would have dealt with it.

In James 1:2-4, the Bible says,

“My Brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptation. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

God wants you to be perfect. He wants you to lack nothing. He wants you to be a child of God that He can look at you and say, “I am proud of this.”

In 1 Peter 1:6-7, the Bible says,

“Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season. If need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, honour, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.”

When the fire comes, it purifies you; everything in you that is not divine will be flushed out, and then you become pure. You become a vessel unto honour in the hand of God.

The word of God now says that all these things will work together for your good, so that you will become a vessel of praise, a vessel unto honour, and a vessel unto glory. That is what Romans 8:28 says,

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose”.

Once the fire has done its work, everything that is not divine has been removed, then you become almost like Jesus Christ. You become perfect.

So when God wants you to begin to fly like an eagle. He creates problems or He allows problems, which will compel you to go through the refining process, and by the time you finish, you will be soaring like an eagle. Problems will push you close to God.

You will learn to pray, like you have never prayed before. You will learn to fast. You will learn to study the Word of God by force.

You will memorise it by force, you will quote it by force, and very soon, it becomes part and parcel of you, so that even when all the problems are over, you will remain a great, wonderful and mighty man of valour. Then you too will be able to soar like an eagle.

PRAYER

Talk to God and say,

Father, whatever refining You need to do, do it, Lord, because I must be pure. I must fly like an Eagle. I must soar.

Talk to the Lord now.

Action Point

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