The eagle is the National bird symbol of the United States of America. I have been always intrigued by this powerful bird ruling the sky. Eagle is often used as a metaphor in the Bible to teach God’s children precious insights of life here on earth.

WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS YOUR PLANS

When I was 15 years old, it was arranged for me to join a boarding school to continue with my junior and Senior High School as well as College. It was the first time I was away from home in a completely different state with new people and surroundings. I had a hard time adjusting since I only saw my family once a year, while other dorm girls saw theirs every single week.

I felt abandoned by my parents and started getting sick almost every week.

Later in my marriage, the Lord interrupted my plans to be a mama by making me wait for 10 years. I gave birth to my triplets at only 26 weeks (that was not my plan though) .

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Sudden change of plans can disrupt our entire lives. It can naturally make us sad, disconnected, sick, afraid, abandoned and distant.

The real question is how do you continue to react as a child of God when God interrupts with our plans?

–Are we angry at God because He changed our plans that we ourselves thought would have been better than HIS?

Remember the story of Jonah sitting under the cool of the tree that God Himself created and yet suddenly angry at God because the plant dried up?

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Let us read Deuteronomy 32:11 -12 for today’s post –

As an eagle stirs up its nest

Hovers over its young

Spreading out its wings

Taking them up,

Carrying them on its wings

So, the Lord alone led Israel, Diana, and you, my friend !

The Lord did interrupt the plans of the Israelites and the Egyptians, and led HIS chosen people into the promise land.The journey lasted 40 years because the Israelites grumbled and complained along the way instead to trusting God’s change of plans.

When God interrupts your plans

EAGLES AND GOD, ALMIGHTY

Let us start by studying how the eagles represent the power and might of God, the Father

Eagles are known to fly in the higher places.

Psalm 138 :6 For the LORD, who is high and lifted, looks upon the humble, but the proud he does not know.

Eagle vision can reach up 4 to 5 times further than a person with perfect vision. While we can see up to 20 feet, eagles can see clearly at 100 feet away.

Proverbs 15: 3 The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.

Eagles build their nest near large bodies with abundant food and water supply.

Psalm 127 : 1  Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.

Job 38:41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

Psalm 107:9 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

 

HOW THE EAGLE STIRS HER NEST

A mother eagle builds her nest with broken branches and thorns. She then covers the top with feathers and other soft fur to make it comfortable for her little ones. Once the eggs are hatched, she feeds her little ones by dropping food into their mouths. After few days, the eagle will drop the food farther away from the nest.

Imagine the little ones crying out for food now . The mom eagle sure does look mean now, doesn’t she?

The eagle wants her little ones to fluff their wings and move away from their comfort zone. She will do so by taking out those soft furs and feathers. As the thorns begin to prick the little ones, they will then move away from the nest towards the branches of the tree to grab their food.

Spurgeon once wrote : It is impossible that any ill should happen to the man who is beloved of the Lord; the most crushing calamities can only shorten his journey and hasten him to his reward. Ill to him is no ill, but only good in a mysterious form. Losses enrich him, sickness is his medicine,

The Eagle then carries her eaglets high into the sky on her wings. Then suddenly without warning, she lets go of her young ones. These eaglets start plummeting down, heart racing, scared, shocked at how death is closing on them on the hard ground.

Then something amazing happens.

The mama stretches her wings again and takes them up to the sky and repeats her teaching.

The young ones start learning to spread open their wings they never knew existed and start flying high above.

  4 LESSONS TO REMEMBER AS YOU SOAR LIKE EAGLES

RECOGNIZE THAT YOU WERE CREATED TO FLY

The eagles know that they were created to soar high into the sky and not live on the land.

–Have you been way too comfortable in that nest of yours? Do you know that you were created to fly high into the presence of your Lord God?

–Have you noticed the Lord stirring your comfort zone lately and placing you in homes, jobs, churches, and even in a new country?

–Do you feel that God has abandoned you in mid air and left you to hit rock bottom?

Nay, my friend. God is right beside you and won’t let your foot stumble.

 

Psalm 94: 14 For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.

Isaiah 42: 16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Travel with thy teacher and thou shalt learn that your HOME is wider than any nest – Streams in the Desert

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GOD INTERRUPTS YOUR LIFE TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL

Christian life on this earth was never meant to be a comfortable journey. Life here is in fact a very narrow nest.

Joseph was very comfortable being the favorite son of his father. His journey from being sold by his brothers, to being accused at Potiphar’s house to being prisoned was how God interrupted Joseph’s plans. God was with him and placed Joseph in a higher position in Egypt.

In Acts 8 we read how the great persecuted rose against the Church and everyone was scattered. Saul was one of the persecutors as well. But all those who got scattered spread the Gospel wherever they went. Acts 8:4

Lots of missionaries even came to India, my birth land many years ago where Hindus are still the majority to spread the gospel.

I am a believer because my great grand parents came to know the Lord. Today the Lord is using me as a Pen to share His Gospel online.

Parents don’t forget to give the gift of flight to your children. Allow them to leave your nest and learn to fly physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

 RESPOND WITH FULL TRUST WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS YOUR PLANS

May your soul take wings,

Free from the burden of this world and sin

Eyes upward, soaring above to live a purpose filled life;

Hopeful, faithful, fruitful ;

Until Jesus comes to take us Home.

Safe to eternal glory, and to a place of everlasting joys.

The Lord doesn’t want us to live in a cage but to mount up with wings. He promises to carry us through the valleys, afflictions, cancers, strokes, loss of parents, spouses, loss of children, and friends.

The Lord interrupts our plans and stirs our nest because this world is not our home. These stirrings are wake up calls to become closer to the Lord.

When God interrupts your plans

REFLECTION :

How has the Lord interrupted your life lately and changed your plans?

How did you want to respond?

Until next time,

Diana