I read a story in a book about something that happened in Colorado, USA. The story was about how a small farm boy whose father had a farm on a mountain top, climbed to the top of the mountain and found an eagle's nest. He found some eggs in the nest so he took one of them and put it among the eggs that one of their domestic hens was incubating. The hen sat on all the eggs and when time came, all the eggs hatched together. But while all the others were little chicks, one of them was an eaglet.
And so this eaglet began to grow in the midst of chickens. As they grew, because this eaglet was in the midst of chickens, it acted and behaved like a chicken. But it discovered that when they spread their wings, its own claws and feathers were different from the others. Anytime an eagle appeared in the sky, all the chicks would run for cover, including the eaglet.
But one day, an eagle appeared in the sky that cast its shadow on the ground. The eaglet found that it looked more like the eagle in the sky than the chicks that were running for cover. So it spread its wings and flapped them in an attempt to fly. And the moment it did, it flew - and you know chickens do not fly.
Many of us, because of the environment where we were born, the environment of ordinary people - when we become born again we erroneously believe that we are still the same people. We do not know that by our new birth, we have entered into the eagle's club.
If you can discover your potential you will be found in the sky!
Do not die with chickens when you were created to be an eagle. To be born again is to be an eagle again. Jesus was an eagle on the cross. The Bible says they saw Him move into the sky. Jesus moved when He ascended; He moved majestically. If you have ever seen an eagle in the sky, you will see its majesty; it does not fly like other birds; it just opens its feather and soars according to the direction of the wind. That is how your Christianity should be; you should not be struggling with unbelievers. You should be going above them, while they remain on the ground watching you soar.
You will soar in the sky! All you need do is to discover who you are by discovering your potential.
