Are you becoming an Eagle? Are you listening to His voice? Can you see the good?

                                                                 Like that of an Eagle

‘’As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.” 

Deuteronomy 32:11. kjv

We understand this verse is talking about the 40 year wanderings of the children of Israel and yet, this song begins to sing to our own hearts.

In the first part of the verse is a masculine noun, and when the “eagle” stirs up His nest, something big is happening and it is time for the youngsters to “wake up,” there is a big world out there.  This is also an unused root meaning “lacerate.” 

The nest is made of twigs, grass and thorns and are gathered interchangeably, interwoven and interlocking with the grass eventually on top and a hedge of thorns surrounding the outside of the nest to secure against predators and storms. Home sweet home. When the male eagle begins to stir up the nest, the eaglets become uncomfortable and begin to flap their wings. The father or mother eagle pushes the eaglets out of the nest. Frightened, the eaglets jump back into the nest and because the grass has been removed they are no longer comfortable as the thorns begin to lacerate them and they jump back out. 

What is their Father saying to them?  

It is time for change. If you never changed, you would be stunted and not develop or mature. You would not grow or understand the things I have created for you to learn. You would be stagnant and not be trained in wisdom nor be fruitful and have character. Most important, you would not be able to see the meaning of my love. The formation of strong character is achieved only by walking past fear, through the trials. 

Sometimes, we manage to dodge the rain drops from time to time, then; we are challenged to trust and take our Father’s hand as He walks us the rest of the way.  

He says, “Do not fear!”

Like that of the eaglet, we can be full of trepidation and shrink at the vastness of setting out on our own. We like our comfortable nests, without the thorns. Have we become so comfortable, we cannot recognize our Father’s voice or sense the stirring as His wings flutters over us? And, when we take that giant leap into the air, do we really believe He is still with us no matter what happens when we fly? When the baby eagle finally dives into the air or is pushed by his mother, did he realize that his mother would be hovering just above him the whole time? And, should he tire and begin to fall, the father and mother would be there to catch him and bring him a fish when in need?

Watching his father dive gracefully into the air, the youngster had no idea that someday, he would not only look fearlessly at the storms but get excited over them. His whole attitude could be something like that of an enthusiastic young surfer running to his board and shouting, “surfs up!” Thus, he uses the stormy winds to fly up to 10,000 to 15,000 ft high at 65 mph. He rises above the clouds, resting and gliding; watching the drama below. His father taught him that eagles rise above the fray. His eyes will become completely focused with unerring vision and he would perfect his dive at a rapid speed of 200 mph easily lifting a fish within his strong talons, with barely a break in the water.

How many of you want to be eagles today?

Precious Heavenly Father,

We give you all praise this morning from everything inside of us. We love you with all of our heart, our soul, our mind and all of our strength. We put all of our trust in only you. Our desire is to drawn closer to you, to know your character more, understand your reasonings and any useful intellect you have for us. Make us eagles Father. We ask that your Holy Spirit would guide and instruct us this morning. We thank you for teaching us your insight that provides more faith, healings, acceptance, well being and a light to learn more love in deeper ways, thank you for stirring up our nests like that of a mother eagle, to get us out of our comfort zones. You O Father are more real than anything we can see right here on earth! We give you all praise!  Thank you for the way your wings hover over us, always caring, watching, catching us when we falter, guiding us into the good things that enrich our lives. We know this is all from you Father. Thank you for pushing us off of the cliff when we need it. Thank you for making us uncomfortable when we need it. For never giving up on us.  We gladly declare and give you all of the credit, honor and glory. We rejoice that Jesus is Lord and we pray this in His name, amen.  

The bird mentioned can be an eagle or a griffon vulture. Some are convinced it is the vulture.  Vultures eat carcasses, eagles do not. Both the eagle and the vulture have similar characteristics. Surprisingly it is the vultures sense of smell that leads him to his prey. The largest vulture’s wing span is 8 ft and 7 in. The Steller’s sea eagle can be as large as 8 ft and 2 in. The vulture glides perfectly up to 2,200 ft in the air. They connect to the “sweet spots” that are shaped something like a tornado enabling them to be one of the most graceful birds in the air.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נֶשֶׁר noun masculine^{Deuteronomy 32:11} griffon-vulture, eagle (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian  našru; ᵑ7 נַשְׁרָא; Syriac Arabic vulture (Lane²⁷⁸⁰),

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