My friends, what you believe to
be true affects you to the core of your being.
It shapes you and makes you what you are. It either blesses you because it opens you up
to the power of God, or it afflicts you because it blinds you to what you could
be and what God is trying to do for you.
This truth is communicated by a
story, a fable really, that goes like this: Once upon a time a man found the
egg of an eagle. It had been abandoned for some reason by its mother, but as it
was still warm the man took it and put it in the nest of one of his backyard
chickens along with the other eggs that were there being brooded upon. After a period of time the eaglet was
hatched, and along with the other chicks from his nest began to go about the
backyard doing what the other chicks did. He scratched the earth for worms and
insects. He looked for the corn that the man would throw into the yard. He
clucked and cackled as best as he could, and as he grew, he would, like the
other chickens, thrash his wings and
fly a few feet in the air.
Years passed in this way and the eagle grew very old. One
day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. It glided
majestically among the powerful wind currents, soaring and swooping, scarcely
beating its long golden wings. The old
eagle looked at it in awe and asked, "What is that?"
"That is the eagle, the king of the birds," said
one of his neighbors. "He belongs to the sky and to the high places. We
belong to the earth, we are chickens."
The old eagle knew this was true, and so it was he lived and died as a
chicken, for that is what he believed he was.
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