Soaring in the Spirit

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Live like it’s true”

Our Bible verse for today: “The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living in you.” Romans 8:11 (NLT)

Our thought for today: “Soaring in the Spirit”

When it comes to living like our faith is real and true, God helps us more than we realize by means of His Spirit living within us. I want to share with you a story that appears in the Swindoll Study Bible. This is what Pastor Chuck wrote:

“Do you ever have the feeling that you have been wrongly programmed? Have you ever spent much of your life thinking a certain way only to realize that you have missed something vital the whole time? If so, it’s made you different than you otherwise would have been.
Imagine that somebody stole an eagle’s egg and secretly placed it in the nest of a prairie chicken alongside her other eggs. The little hen sat on the eggs, and after some time, along with her little chicks popped out a little eaglet. The eaglet watched and listened and scratched around in the dirt and ate stuff off the ground like the prairie chickens did, and he tried to learn to cluck. Every once in a while he would fly low to the ground like the chickens he had always been around. Then one bright, sunny day, the eagle, now grown, looked up into the cloudless sky and saw the inimitable sight of another eagle soaring. He said to his buddy, “Let’s try that!” The chicken said, “Are you kidding? We’re chickens.” So the eagle spent the rest of his days scratching in the dirt and eating from the ground. He never soared.
This fanciful story illustrates a point: What a shame it is when God has something better for us but we don’t realize it! If we do end up realizing it, we look back with regret, thinking, “Why haven’t I been soaring all this time?”

The point is that God has placed His Holy Spirit in our hearts and by doing so He has enabled us to soar through life as if we had wings like eagles (Isaiah 40:29-31). But many of us never fully embrace the life God wants us to live. Many of us hold back, procrastinate, and make excuses for not doing the things God has prepared for us, and therefore we don’t experience the life He has called us to.

This is why the Scriptures call us to be fully committed disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. The best life any of us will ever have is the one that is lived fully surrendered to Jesus and right in the center of God’s will.

We can indeed soar through life in the Spirit. But to do so we will have to stop scratching with the chickens. We must embrace our true identity in Christ and let the Spirit take us where He wants us to go.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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