I was fortunate enough to get an up close view of an eagle as part of a presentation at a local bird festival on Saturday.
My camera was clicking during the presentation trying to catch the perfect image of this great creature of the sky that you normally only see from afar.
The eagle is such a majestic creature. I'm in awe of its size and structure. Its plume of feathers is beautiful and perfectly situated to provide it with the ability to soar in dominance over most of the birds of the sky.
I was reminded about how God's creative hand formed this great bird. We can learn life lessons from knowing about an eagle.
There is much truth in Isaiah 40:31 which reads: “But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.”
Eagles flock together. As the old saying goes, "Birds of like feathers flock together". Eagles do not mix with other birds but always only enjoy to fly in the high altitude of the eagle only. We soar alone in the spirit realm with God the Father many times.
Eagles see a long distance for prey or its enemy. Eagles have strong vision and so are able to identify its prey and focuses on it until it gets the prey and at the same time it is able to see from afar its enemy. We as the children of God are focused on our reward which is to kill the unbelief, sorrow, depression and eat the positive things of peace, joy and righteousness. Evil forces think they have the ability to attack our nest which is our home, finances, relationships, health, spiritual well being and our spiritual wholeness. Let us praise God for the strong vision and the ability at various times to outwit the enemies plans completely.
I've learned through reading that eagles are the only birds that love the storm. When all other birds try to flee from the storm and hide itself from the fierceness of it, eagles fly in to it and will use the wind of the storm to rise higher in a fraction of seconds. It uses the pressure of the storm to glide higher without using its own energy. It is able to do this because God has created it uniquely with an ability to lock its wings in a fixed position, in the midst of the fierce storm winds. The storms in life that we face are trials, tribulations and temptations. As we face the stormy wind of afflictions in life, the Holy Spirit helps us lock our mind in a fixed position with the grace of God through faith in the finished work of the Cross, which helps us not to spend our energy but just stay in the storm and enjoy the lift and height of heavenly mindedness in a greater and greater altitude.
Eagles test before trusting. The female eagle during courtship always takes a male one in to the air after picking up a twig from the ground and goes to a certain height and will drop it for the male to chase it. Once the male catches hold of it and brings it back, the female flies in to a higher altitude and drops it in the same way. This is repeated until the female gets an assurance that the male one has mastered the art of seriously picking up the twigs in real love and affection. Once they get hooked up in trust, the father and the mother eagle mate for life. And they work together as parents with both tending to duties like keeping the eggs warm and protected until the eaglet is hatched. We should follow that example.
Eagles train their children to maturity. While in training the mother eagle will throw the eaglets outside of its nest and the eaglets will get scared and will always try to come back in to the comfort zone of the nest. Slowly the eagle will begin to remove the feathers, rugs and soft grass inside its nest step by step so that the eaglets can be trained to fly like them. The eaglets may feel that their mother and father are doing cruel things to them. Many times we as believers try to stay in the comfort zone of the old season that the Lord has kept us to grow for a time. But the Lord takes us in to situations that may seem very cruel as we start to bleed because of the hardship of thorns we face in the new season, but the Lord's motive in doing it is to make our fears flee and teach us to soar in faith. Because of the thorns we feel inside the comfort zone of our old and outdated season, we slowly jump out in to the new season like the eaglets jump out of the thorny nest.
When the eagles get older and weak because of the worn out feathers which slows down its flight speed and maneuvers, the eagle retires away in the rocks or its nest and will pluck away all its old feathers until it is completely bare. It waits until a new set of feathers grow and come out of his body. It stays in the hiding place until all the new feathers come back to make it fly dynamically and royally again without much effort or toil.
Likewise, when we grow weary,we wait in the presence of the Lord to help us rise up with the new feathers of faith by renewing our minds with the Word of God.
There are so many lessons to be learned from eagles.
Be blessed.
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