Emulating the Eagle
Man is clearly above all species, which creep, crawl, run even swim and fly on planet earth. Nevertheless, we can learn from the animal kingdom and indeed we have. We often quote the strength and courage of lions, the memory of elephants, the hardworking nature of bees and ants, the sleepiness of sloths, the swiftness of antelopes, the intelligence of dolphins, the smartness of the mousedeer and the faithfulness and friendship of dogs. We even talk of the rat, how they are survivors or the hyenas, how vicious they become when in a pack.
Man is definitely superior, more intelligent, more creative, more progressive and hence the most powerful of all species. So indeed we are and should be, for we are created in God's image - our body, our mind and our soul. We are truly special, truly rightful owners of planet earth.
Our first commandment also is a an empowering directive, as the Chairman gives to the CEO of a huge multinational, worldwide and international company.
"Rule the earth! Take over every inch, every square centimetre into the far corners of the earth!"
Yes, God, our Father clearly said to man immediately after man was created and breathed his first breath, opened his eyes and realised that he was a living being, amidst a beautiful environment called earth, made by God [not man] filled with flourishing trees that were God-made [not man-made], surrounded by the rest of creation on land, in the seas and flying in the skies, again all of which are God-made [not man-made].
God said: [Genesis 1:28] "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish in the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the earth."
God has created and He has provided. Not only has He made man and provided for man everything that he needs on planet earth, God has given man the directive, the command, the instructions to take over as Chief Executive Officer of planet earth.
Fill it and subdue it and rule it! He has also given man the authority and power to do so. So 'Biped Man', the creature with two legs, walking upright, uniquely handsome - the only one species with language, we who can talk, sing, think and even create, we are Man!
You are man! So special, so vastly superior over all other creation, we have moved ahead by light-years, while our nearest so-called cousins are still jumping from tree to tree!
Man is different, truly unique and exceptional. What mankind has achieved in the recent decades has been indeed amazing, literally an exponential explosion of intelligence and creativity.
Yet, it is all muddled up by a lot of depravity, sin, murder, rape, genocide, ruthless devastation of the environment and destruction of other living creatures and their habitat and the food around them - totally in contradiction to the first directive by the Chairman - to subdue and dominate, not destroy and devastate all other creation and the environment we live in!
If man continues to do so ruthlessly, there can only be one consequence when the Chairman acts and holds His final Annual General Meeting. He will sack the CEO and take over control!
On one hand, man may have overdone his power and authority. On the other hand, there is the opposite, when man does not do enough, when he or she does not rise up to his or her potential to perform, to produce and to penetrate into distant boundaries of the world, beyond the realm of the neighbourhood, beyond the little closet everyone calls `home'.
We look to emulate the eagle and other examples in creation to reach out to the limits of our capability or even go beyond to perform, produce and soar. We can go beyond the limits, for we have yet to realise the maximum potential of the human mind and intelligence. God is watching over us, as we soar and soar.
Emulating the eagle
1. Preparation and growth
There is a period of protection, nurturing, guidance and growing before the eaglet flies.
The average eaglet takes up to four good years, under the wings of its parents, before it launches out into the world. During this time, mother eagle spends hours to feed, protect, teach and nurture the baby eaglet, with natural God-given wisdom to do so, without having to attend 'meetings and seminars'! Daddy eagle, of course is the great inpiration as baby eaglet watches him in majestic flight and applauds as he swoops down on the prey with the precision of a marksman.
After four solid years, baby eaglet is ready to fly off, with the same majestic power and full of enthusiasm and vitality. Mum can sit back and retire! Daddy too, watches proudly, and later joins in flight.
Do we earthlings do so too? Yes and no! Education in schools, colleges and universities are structured. Not at home or the church - the two most vital institutions on planet earth. It is necessary to prepare the children to face the world, and it is even more vital to prepare the child of God to go out into the world - to share the Good News, amidst critics, surviving through persecution and tribulations.
After four years, every regular member attending a church, should be ready, equipped and excited to venture out into the world, out there. The messages each Sunday, together with other meetings and seminars would have totalled no less than 200 solid services and sermons - enough meat to stir the child of God to reach out for more himself or herself!
2. Knowing and understanding your physical abilities
The eagle took off in its first flight with confidence and sheer finesse. With the right preparation and equipping, all believers can be ready to take off into the world to impact the nations, bringing them the Good News.
Each young eagle takes to flight with similar or equivalent ability and power with such stereotypical or identical flight capabilities that makes us why human beings are moulded in so many size, shapes and capabilities. Is the quality control or genetic transfer in man so very much more variable than the eagle?
Man appears to have so much variation in ability and talent, potential and capability. The ability to walk, run, work, endure, talk, express and communicate varies so much from individual to individual. Some can only do a limited walk, while others can run a marathon. Some can only speak a few words of one language, but others who can speak several languages.
And there is no standard set for the average man or woman to achieve and to arrive at, no level of proficiency expected, no clear demands of society - none at all! Each achieves whatever it desires or can do, without any conflict of expectations or demands of parents or society.
Literally, the sky is the limit, but so too is the price you have to pay for your target, goal or vision. You and I can soar and aim higher and reach higher goals and targets, without disturbing the peace or apathy around you.
So man, or woman, you can definitely rise higher and higher to do more, achieve more, fly higher and reach the highest level of fitness and capability for your age, if you so desire it.
3. Developing Your Vision
The eagle has amazingly superior and focused vision. Its ability to see a rabbit from a thousand feet high, while scanning an area of up to 3 square miles is unmatched in the animal kingdom.
What about man? God said: Rule the earth! Dominate all other species! That covers thousands of square miles and high into the skies and deep into the oceans. This means that our scope and hence vision should be even far wider, with more depth and breadth compared to the eagle. Man can and should possess a far greater vision than the eagle. We have therefore a more superior vision than the eagle!!
God has given and empowered us to do so - the world is our playing field, our territory, our rightful home - the land, the seas and the skies. Earth is ours to rule and dominate as the CEO, while GOD remains Chairman.
Jesus, before He departed, after His resurrection gave us a clear directive and command to bring the message of Salvation to the ends of the world. Jesus, Son of God, is the Co-Chairman, who has now the full authority to execute all final decisions on earth. He is Lord, GOD's Son, Messiah and Saviour of the World.
Like the eagle, we need to see far and yet be focused.
4. Flying High and Lasting Long
The eagle flies high and stays adrift for long, long periods almost effortlessly. It does not need to reach as high as 10,000 feet but it does, nor does it have to sail endlessly for hours, but it does.
Why does the eagle push itself beyond the limits? Man can learn from that. When we push well beyond our limits, we have renewed strength, renewed direction and new focus. Have you reached your highest altitude? It is your attitude - your persistence, your perseverance, your patience and practice, practice, practice that pushes you to the highest limits of your endurance and ability.
We too can fly high and last longer.
5. Swift Precision
Swift, precise decision making - literally in one swoop, the eagle does it. The eagle drops down in its altitude, comes down to earth or the water surface to seize its prey, its food for the season. It is there for it for the moment, for the season and it knows it is God-given, like the young lion, they seek it and receive it from the Almigthy. Psalm 104 v 21.
Unless the eagle swoops down at the precise moment, it misses its prey and waits for the next opportunity. It is no easy task, no meal is easy for the eagle; it works for each bite, not like man. We pick up the phone and dial 1800 for food and it comes. Someone else has to toil for a meagre bite, but of the present generation grow fat and lazy as 'couch potatoes', waiting to be served. We take things for granted, maybe even take God for granted, unlike the hunter in the Kalahari Desert, who has to run and search for his prey, then seek the source of plants and fruits for water, working for each bite and for each gulp. Perhaps, it is in such a situation like the lion, the eagle and the desert hunter that we learn to be swift and precise for survival!
We can indeed learn from the eagle!
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Man is definitely superior, more intelligent, more creative, more progressive and hence the most powerful of all species. So indeed we are and should be, for we are created in God's image - our body, our mind and our soul. We are truly special, truly rightful owners of planet earth.
Our first commandment also is a an empowering directive, as the Chairman gives to the CEO of a huge multinational, worldwide and international company.
"Rule the earth! Take over every inch, every square centimetre into the far corners of the earth!"
Yes, God, our Father clearly said to man immediately after man was created and breathed his first breath, opened his eyes and realised that he was a living being, amidst a beautiful environment called earth, made by God [not man] filled with flourishing trees that were God-made [not man-made], surrounded by the rest of creation on land, in the seas and flying in the skies, again all of which are God-made [not man-made].
God said: [Genesis 1:28] "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish in the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the earth."
God has created and He has provided. Not only has He made man and provided for man everything that he needs on planet earth, God has given man the directive, the command, the instructions to take over as Chief Executive Officer of planet earth.
Fill it and subdue it and rule it! He has also given man the authority and power to do so. So 'Biped Man', the creature with two legs, walking upright, uniquely handsome - the only one species with language, we who can talk, sing, think and even create, we are Man!
You are man! So special, so vastly superior over all other creation, we have moved ahead by light-years, while our nearest so-called cousins are still jumping from tree to tree!
Man is different, truly unique and exceptional. What mankind has achieved in the recent decades has been indeed amazing, literally an exponential explosion of intelligence and creativity.
Yet, it is all muddled up by a lot of depravity, sin, murder, rape, genocide, ruthless devastation of the environment and destruction of other living creatures and their habitat and the food around them - totally in contradiction to the first directive by the Chairman - to subdue and dominate, not destroy and devastate all other creation and the environment we live in!
If man continues to do so ruthlessly, there can only be one consequence when the Chairman acts and holds His final Annual General Meeting. He will sack the CEO and take over control!
On one hand, man may have overdone his power and authority. On the other hand, there is the opposite, when man does not do enough, when he or she does not rise up to his or her potential to perform, to produce and to penetrate into distant boundaries of the world, beyond the realm of the neighbourhood, beyond the little closet everyone calls `home'.
We look to emulate the eagle and other examples in creation to reach out to the limits of our capability or even go beyond to perform, produce and soar. We can go beyond the limits, for we have yet to realise the maximum potential of the human mind and intelligence. God is watching over us, as we soar and soar.
Emulating the eagle
1. Preparation and growth
There is a period of protection, nurturing, guidance and growing before the eaglet flies.
The average eaglet takes up to four good years, under the wings of its parents, before it launches out into the world. During this time, mother eagle spends hours to feed, protect, teach and nurture the baby eaglet, with natural God-given wisdom to do so, without having to attend 'meetings and seminars'! Daddy eagle, of course is the great inpiration as baby eaglet watches him in majestic flight and applauds as he swoops down on the prey with the precision of a marksman.
After four solid years, baby eaglet is ready to fly off, with the same majestic power and full of enthusiasm and vitality. Mum can sit back and retire! Daddy too, watches proudly, and later joins in flight.
Do we earthlings do so too? Yes and no! Education in schools, colleges and universities are structured. Not at home or the church - the two most vital institutions on planet earth. It is necessary to prepare the children to face the world, and it is even more vital to prepare the child of God to go out into the world - to share the Good News, amidst critics, surviving through persecution and tribulations.
After four years, every regular member attending a church, should be ready, equipped and excited to venture out into the world, out there. The messages each Sunday, together with other meetings and seminars would have totalled no less than 200 solid services and sermons - enough meat to stir the child of God to reach out for more himself or herself!
2. Knowing and understanding your physical abilities
The eagle took off in its first flight with confidence and sheer finesse. With the right preparation and equipping, all believers can be ready to take off into the world to impact the nations, bringing them the Good News.
Each young eagle takes to flight with similar or equivalent ability and power with such stereotypical or identical flight capabilities that makes us why human beings are moulded in so many size, shapes and capabilities. Is the quality control or genetic transfer in man so very much more variable than the eagle?
Man appears to have so much variation in ability and talent, potential and capability. The ability to walk, run, work, endure, talk, express and communicate varies so much from individual to individual. Some can only do a limited walk, while others can run a marathon. Some can only speak a few words of one language, but others who can speak several languages.
And there is no standard set for the average man or woman to achieve and to arrive at, no level of proficiency expected, no clear demands of society - none at all! Each achieves whatever it desires or can do, without any conflict of expectations or demands of parents or society.
Literally, the sky is the limit, but so too is the price you have to pay for your target, goal or vision. You and I can soar and aim higher and reach higher goals and targets, without disturbing the peace or apathy around you.
So man, or woman, you can definitely rise higher and higher to do more, achieve more, fly higher and reach the highest level of fitness and capability for your age, if you so desire it.
3. Developing Your Vision
The eagle has amazingly superior and focused vision. Its ability to see a rabbit from a thousand feet high, while scanning an area of up to 3 square miles is unmatched in the animal kingdom.
What about man? God said: Rule the earth! Dominate all other species! That covers thousands of square miles and high into the skies and deep into the oceans. This means that our scope and hence vision should be even far wider, with more depth and breadth compared to the eagle. Man can and should possess a far greater vision than the eagle. We have therefore a more superior vision than the eagle!!
God has given and empowered us to do so - the world is our playing field, our territory, our rightful home - the land, the seas and the skies. Earth is ours to rule and dominate as the CEO, while GOD remains Chairman.
Jesus, before He departed, after His resurrection gave us a clear directive and command to bring the message of Salvation to the ends of the world. Jesus, Son of God, is the Co-Chairman, who has now the full authority to execute all final decisions on earth. He is Lord, GOD's Son, Messiah and Saviour of the World.
Like the eagle, we need to see far and yet be focused.
4. Flying High and Lasting Long
The eagle flies high and stays adrift for long, long periods almost effortlessly. It does not need to reach as high as 10,000 feet but it does, nor does it have to sail endlessly for hours, but it does.
Why does the eagle push itself beyond the limits? Man can learn from that. When we push well beyond our limits, we have renewed strength, renewed direction and new focus. Have you reached your highest altitude? It is your attitude - your persistence, your perseverance, your patience and practice, practice, practice that pushes you to the highest limits of your endurance and ability.
We too can fly high and last longer.
5. Swift Precision
Swift, precise decision making - literally in one swoop, the eagle does it. The eagle drops down in its altitude, comes down to earth or the water surface to seize its prey, its food for the season. It is there for it for the moment, for the season and it knows it is God-given, like the young lion, they seek it and receive it from the Almigthy. Psalm 104 v 21.
Unless the eagle swoops down at the precise moment, it misses its prey and waits for the next opportunity. It is no easy task, no meal is easy for the eagle; it works for each bite, not like man. We pick up the phone and dial 1800 for food and it comes. Someone else has to toil for a meagre bite, but of the present generation grow fat and lazy as 'couch potatoes', waiting to be served. We take things for granted, maybe even take God for granted, unlike the hunter in the Kalahari Desert, who has to run and search for his prey, then seek the source of plants and fruits for water, working for each bite and for each gulp. Perhaps, it is in such a situation like the lion, the eagle and the desert hunter that we learn to be swift and precise for survival!
We can indeed learn from the eagle!
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