My nickname has always been Birdy. The Lord is so amazing!! Periodically, at very instrumental times, He gives me special bird verses. Usually about sparrows or doves, but my newest bird verse is the well-known Eagle verse … But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
Wow! The Lord is calling me to rise from being a sparrow to an eagle! At first I couldn’t receive this because I clearly see myself much like a sparrow … plain and uninteresting. A little weakling fluttering about near the ground. But God sees me as a mighty eagle! How can I possibly be who He is calling me to be??
By putting my HOPE in my Savior alone!!! Only then can I soar to the heights that He is calling me to.
We cannot put our hope in the things of this world … the people we love, our finances, our health, or even our future! Those are precious gifts from God’s hand and He wants us to enjoy them thoroughly. But everything is perishing here on earth. If our hope is in those things, then our hope will perish as well.
Instead of soaring, we will plummet into the deepest of pits.
If our hope is not completely in the Lord, a dreaded diagnosis or abandonment (intentional or unintentional) will blindside us and send us into an emotional tailspin and despair.
Conversely, if our hope is in the Lord, even in the midst of deep sorrow we will experience Christ’s strength and intimacy with Him like never before. We will have true joy knowing how tenderly He is loving and caring for us, even during the most horrible of times.
Conversely, if our hope is in the Lord, even in the midst of deep sorrow we will experience Christ’s strength and intimacy with Him like never before. We will have true joy knowing how tenderly He is loving and caring for us, even during the most horrible of times.
God calling me an eagle reminds me of when He called Gideon a mighty man of valor, even though he was hiding down in the wine press threshing his wheat. Gideon knew who he was—the least of people in the least of tribes. But that was not how God saw him! God saw him as a mighty warrior!
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you!!!!!! Deut. 31:6
