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Taken from “Steams in the Desert 2” January 14th

“But those who wait on 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” (Isaiah 40:31).

Many are the lessons to be learned from the present chaotic world condition.  We are taught the way of simple faith as we are driven back to the Word of God and prayer.  We should make use of these adverse conditions.  There is a lesson for us to learn from the eagles who sits on the edge of the precipice and watches the dark clouds overhead filling the sky with blackness. 

There he sits perfectly still, turning one eye and then the other towards the storm as the forked lightings play back and forth.  He never moves a feather until he feels the first burst of the breeze.  It is then that he knows the hurricane has struck him.  With a scream he swings his breast to the storm.  It is the storm itself that he uses to soar upward into the black sky.  He goes borne upon it.  God wants this experience to take place in the lives of every one of His children!  He wants us to “mount up on wings as eagles!”  We can turn the storm clouds into a chariot!

We never get anywhere nor do conditions and circumstances change by looking at the dark side of life.  A well known man of God once made this statement:  “My religious organs have been ailing for a while past.  I have lain, a sheer hulk in consequence.  But I got my wings, and have taken a change of air.”  It is so often true - we do not use our wings!  We walk along the road of life as mere pedestrians and we tire so easily - for the ugliness of our circumstances burdens us down.  In many different ways we can be put on the shelf or become bedridden - and “our religious organs are in danger of becoming sickly; of losing their brightness, both in mood and discernment.”

We who keep too close to the road of life and do not respond to the upward calling do not have time to breathe the lofty air of the heavenlies!  But we who turn unto the Lord, the Omnipotent One, have the power of wings, and we rise from our tiresome journey into the higher heavens of the glories of our most high God.

I watched a bird upon a fragile stem;

It seemed it would surely break with him;

He did not seem to worry or to mind,

For all his swaying in the wind.

He sat erect and sang his lilting song.

He felt so very sure, so very strong.

         FOR HE HAD WINGS!

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