Life with God: On Eagles’ Wings
Life with God: On Eagles’ Wings
Topic: Soaring through the storms in life
We live in a world of rebellion, disbelief, and spiritual darkness, and many disappointments in life.
Galatians 6:9 N I V
9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
THE LORD WANTS YOU TO FLY HIGH
Even the strongest people, youths and young men, grow tired and weary and may stumble and fall.
We should never try to face trials by our own strengths
Isaiah 40:30-31
30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint
The Context of Isaiah’s Words
The words in Isaiah 40 are aimed at the Israelites during the Babylonian exile.
They’ve suffered for decades under brutal oppression and are now wondering if God has forgotten them.
The Israelite’s who first received this promise were worn out from their hardship.
They had lived in exile in Babylon for several decades. Their perspective was darkened by despairing thoughts:
“My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God” (Isa. 40:27).
They thought God either couldn’t help or didn’t care.
Isaiah uses a pair of words—faint and weary—three times in the span of a few verses here (Isa. 40:27-31).
They were exhausted and burdened from the circumstances of life.
They weren’t just weak in body, but weak in spirit.
How could they endure the hard circumstances of life any longer?
Suffering shapes their perception, and now they can see the world only through the narrow lens of their present reality.
God’s eternal covenantal love and his place in the world as the unrivaled, all-powerful creator is forgotten. He now seems distant and unresponsive toward them, and their hope is waning—if not gone.
It’s no wonder, then, that they feel hopeless and abandoned.
Isaiah responded to these questions with his own:
“HAVE YOU NOT KNOWN? HAVE YOU NOT HEARD?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow faint or grow weary” (Isa. 40:28).
This is a good word for the weary: You may grow faint, but God doesn’t. God is an endless source of strength, and he gives it generously—
“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength” (Isa. 40:29).
Isaiah 40 invites Israel (and all of us) to remember who God is and what he has done.
Because this is a natural human reaction, leading us to forget God’s actions in the past, it’s important to recognize that pain and weariness work to silence our hope for the future.
REMEMBER THE 40 YEARS OF GOD PROVIDING IN THE WILDERNESS
God is not always on our schedule
Waiting can result in two things
1. A change of desire on our part
2. A greater outcome than we can image
The problem is not that God forgets or doesn’t care is Israel’s problem
It's not God who lacks knowledge or memory; it's Israel.
Isaiah 40:31 contains a great promise of strength for the weary:
“They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Waiting is allowing God to become your life
Waiting is not setting back and doing nothing
Waiting is being, and believing, and doing.
Waiting is soaring
The Lord is teaching you to fly high
The eagle is one of the largest and most powerful birds in the world. Since ancient times, the eagle has always been considered as a sign of strength.
The eagle is characterized with speed, strength, power, boldness, focus, courage and great vision.
This amazing bird lives in high altitudes. They soar higher than any other bird because they understand thermal currents and use it to their advantage.
Those that wait upon The Lord, like the eagle, are high flyers.
They are created to glide above. That is where they belong.
God has created you for the top most places in life. You are meant to soar above and excel in life. You belong to the top.
Exodus 19:4 says ‘Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself ‘
In the storms of life, we ride on eagles’ wings.
We ride on the wings of The Spirit as we follow His leadings and guidance.
Weeping may endure for a night but joy is coming in the morning!
Psalm 46:1-3
God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging
God wants us like the eagle to use the storms to our advantage and go higher by them. This is why we wait upon Him for His strength, because we cannot overcome by our own power.
Our strength comes from feeding on the Word of God.
The eagle is able to soar high because of its diet. It does not eat anything that is dead, rather it only feeds on fresh food.
When we wait upon The Lord and daily feed on the fresh meat of His Word, then can we be able to mount up with wings as eagles, we shall run, and not be weary; and walk, and not faint.
