Nipping At Your Heels

Nipping At Your Heels

I spoke with a beloved friend not long ago where we talked about the challenges of being called into something that does not come with the desired even expected results. Most the time when we do something especially if we are called to, we often think that the outcome will be a Wow! moment. The truth is although we equate success with how well things turn out for the positive this is simply not true. In asking ourselves if we have done all that we were asked to do, with out hesitation we were able to answer yes we were. This then allows us to move on and let God take it from there unless he otherwise decides that we need to stay. It has seemed that our hearts once more sought permission to pursue life. We find ourselves pushing off on a heart level and venturing on to seek restoration. 

I was said to me in a conversation that there are Eagles and then there are chickens. There once was a man who raised chickens and he had a young eagle. When the storms would come the eagle would try to fly out of the pin an into the storm, while the chickens would huddle together. Chickens are easy to spot where the eagle feels alone they are the envy of all other fowl. Yet the life that an eagle may live will seem lonely apart and full of storms, but it is the eagle that is free from the cage it is the eagle that flies high with the Holy Spirit it is also the eagle that flies above the storms that weigh you down in the chicken coop. The terrible thing is there are far more eagles living like chicken then there are chickens. There is an enemy farmer that quickly snips your wings and introduces you to chickens. You never know who you are until one day someone calls you an eagle. It is then that there is a greater calling that begins to take place in your life. 

It seems that the enemy is constantly nipping at your hills telling you that you will never be an eagle. That you will never be enough and then when you are enough he tells you that you're a great deal to much. So many of us resign to a lesser life with God. John 10:10 The thief comes to steal kill and destroy, but I have come that you may have life and life to the full. All that which is talked about in the christian faith is less then life. It is duty, purpose and obligation that is being taught to you. My God did not create me to desire to fly and give me the wings, just for me to live in a cage. Yet we are so convinced that we though we look like eagles and if God really loved us we would be free from our cage. All the while he is there waiting for you to call for him with all heart. Free us from this spiritual cage free us from a life of lesser means then that which you called us to live. There is a quote that I love dearly unknown author: There came a time when to remain in the bud was more painful then to risk that it took to blossom. 

I firmly believe that the fierceness of God will not stand for us to live eternity with the enemy nipping at our hills. There will be a day when all eagles will fly. I believe that day is today to stand up declare with your mouth to all those who believe that you are wicked, and say that You ARE a child of God and that you are Free. Isaiah 52:2 Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion, shake yourself from the dust arise and sit enthroned.  

    It is time to risk that you take to flight and fly beyond the storm to the highest peak. There is a freedom with God that was laced in the depth of your inner soul. You will not find what you are looking for until you are free to love God with your whole heart. For God looks at the heart of man to see if he knows him. It is like wise that we know the father so that he also knows us.