The Dysfunctional Eagle
Out there in the offices, in the supermarket, in homes are many, many dysfunctional and ineffective people. These are people who may be cruising through life's path doing things according to their plans, desires, or people who are not able to do what they could do , because they are hurt, injured or distracted, resulting in them becoming ineffective eagles. Some have become lazy, contented to do very little, just perched on their nests, swooping down only for their own needs. They soar no more. What a sore sight, when eagles fly no more, just lined up perched on the cliffs like sparrows on the power line, lazing away.
They are ineffective, weak, without purpose and direction and do not deserve to be known as eagles. They have become a common fowl. A eagle is ineffective and would die, if complacency sets in. In the animal kingdom, this hardly ever occurs. They go on and continue to run the daily race, whether in the skies, the seas or on land.
Man is not like that. Man seems to have a thousand options. They can choose to be an effective eagle or a common fowl and appear to be acceptable before men. The man in the street may walk through life without acknowledging the existence of the Almighty. They may acknowledge Him but still continue to lead a normal secular life. They may do both, lead an active secular as well as be active in the church. Some retire when they are barely forty years of age, living on another forty years idly, literally wasting away several decades of good life, full of promise and potential.
The true eagle is however the one who truly li ves his or her life to the fullest - living one's utmost for His Highest as Oswald Chambers' book title says. In so doing, the eagle rises to reach the highest and experience the Almighty, yet swoops down to pick up food like any other living being. He or she is no laggard, no dysfunctional beast, but a wholehearted eagle.
The cliche that we have but one life is so true. One eagle can walk through life literally walking, limping or just hopping now and then, or he or she can fly, soar and swoop as its should, ruling the skies with awesome might and power, doing justice to its wings, establishing its authority as the king and queen of the air.
Are you dysfunctional? The truth is we are unless, we rise up, fly and soar into the skies. As the eagle soar and rise, so too should man soar and rise, in his or her own way.
Discover what it means to soar and rise as a human being in the following chapters.
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They are ineffective, weak, without purpose and direction and do not deserve to be known as eagles. They have become a common fowl. A eagle is ineffective and would die, if complacency sets in. In the animal kingdom, this hardly ever occurs. They go on and continue to run the daily race, whether in the skies, the seas or on land.
Man is not like that. Man seems to have a thousand options. They can choose to be an effective eagle or a common fowl and appear to be acceptable before men. The man in the street may walk through life without acknowledging the existence of the Almighty. They may acknowledge Him but still continue to lead a normal secular life. They may do both, lead an active secular as well as be active in the church. Some retire when they are barely forty years of age, living on another forty years idly, literally wasting away several decades of good life, full of promise and potential.
The true eagle is however the one who truly li ves his or her life to the fullest - living one's utmost for His Highest as Oswald Chambers' book title says. In so doing, the eagle rises to reach the highest and experience the Almighty, yet swoops down to pick up food like any other living being. He or she is no laggard, no dysfunctional beast, but a wholehearted eagle.
The cliche that we have but one life is so true. One eagle can walk through life literally walking, limping or just hopping now and then, or he or she can fly, soar and swoop as its should, ruling the skies with awesome might and power, doing justice to its wings, establishing its authority as the king and queen of the air.
Are you dysfunctional? The truth is we are unless, we rise up, fly and soar into the skies. As the eagle soar and rise, so too should man soar and rise, in his or her own way.
Discover what it means to soar and rise as a human being in the following chapters.
Page 9
posted by DrTim Sng at 7:57 AM
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