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 few Christians that 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, she 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 throns. 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 begins 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 hits 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 will say , ‘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 will 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 a 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 oracle of God; and are become such as have need for of 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 by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”.

There are some of us , at times when we ought to be teachers , we still want to be taught the very basic principles of God. At the time 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. As a matter of fact, she has a great purpose for the eaglet, 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, thought 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 their is something I have in store for you. I have to push you in order that you may 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 loves you, a day is coming when you will be compelled to stand on your own feet. If you are a baby and your mummy keep 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, it is because God is preparing you for something great.

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

“Though

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