Learn From Nature

 ‘Is it at your command that the eagle rises
to the heights to make its nest? It lives on the cliffs, making its home on a distant, rocky crag. From there it hunts its prey, keeping watch with piercing eyes. Its young gulp down blood. Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it’ Job 39:27-30.

God uses nature and things we find in nature to teach His children vital lessons and things we can do to achieve certain results. ‘The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.’ Ps.19:1-2 [KJV]. In other words, the firmaments are to teach us worship. God intends for us to learn worship by just observing the works of his hands. God says to us in Proverbs 6:6-8 ‘Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter’.Go to the ants and learn diligence, wisdom, and initiative. God expects us to take initiative just like the ants to build a refuge even in the absence of storms. In line with God’s leading, we are going to focus on and learn from the eagle. God likens his children to eagles. God has not called you to be a sparrow, parrot, or a chicken. God has called you to be an eagle. The eagle is like the king of birds, just as man is the crown of all God’s creation. A mature eagle measures about nine feet from wing to wing yet it weighs about 5.5kilograms and can carry 30kg or more. While man’s view is about 120 degrees, the eagle’s view is 270 degrees. This means that it can see even the things that are behind it clearly. God wants us as Christians to imbibe certain attributes of the eagle so that our lives will manifest the authority and superiority that the eagle manifests. ‘Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint’ Isa.40:30-31 [KJV]. We trust God that as we learn from the eagle, we will soar to the heavenlies far above the winds of adversity and storms. As we practice the lessons learnt, all the attacks of the enemy will find no place in our lives.

Prayer:  Father, I pray that as I learn and imbibe the attributes of the eagle, I will soar above the storms and winds of adversity, in Jesus Name.