Are you walking with turkeys or soaring with eagles? Some of you reading this, think this is a strange way to start a post/thought of the week. Your right it is; but I bet I have wet your taste buds. So the question remains, are you walking with turkeys or soaring with eagles? This is an important question to answer. It is the answer which will tell you your spiritual temperature. You know wither your hot, cold or lukewarm. So before we go any further are you walking with turkeys or soaring with eagles?
Have you ever had one of those days when it was so bad you went to kick the dog but the dog kicked you first? Now before you read into this, I have two dogs and love them like family. I would never do them harm, this is just an analogy. I remember a time when my grandma mentioned to me she felt like her prayers were not going past the celling. I was in Seminary at the time and she asked if I ever felt that way. I thought boy have I, the problem is my prayers at times don’t even reach the celling; they barely get past my lips to my nose.
Have you ever had one of those days, weeks, months, years, etc? Where you feel or have felt like God had forgotten you. That He wasn’t picking up your phone calls, looking at your e-mails. That you are not on His calendar. You know that period in your life when you say “why me, don’t you love me, don’t you care for me, why me Lord”. What would happen instead if we said why not me, well we would be soaring with eagles instead of walking with turkeys.
Sunday we looked at Isaiah 40:27-31. At this period in the nation of Israel they are in exile. This is because as a nation they had turned their back on God and had served idols instead. They felt abandoned, that God no longer cares; they feel He does not know what they are going through. Isaiah reminds them God is the Creator of the universe, that He loves them, cares for them and has a plan for them.
So why do bad things happen to good people? I could get philosophical with you but I am too simple minded to do that. We know we live in a fallen world, sometimes bad things happen to us because of other people’s sins. Other times bad things happen to good people because of our own sin. Other times life just happens. A few months ago I had a tire which would not hold air. I took it in to be fixed and the man at the store told me he took a horseshoe nail out of my tire. We don’t have horses. Life happens. Whatever it is God cares about you, He knows what you are going through and can use it for your benefit, the benefit of others and to His Glory.
When bad things happen we are tempted like the Israelite’s in this passage to feel like God has abandoned us. Like he no longer cares or knows what you are going through. We need to be reminded, while we grow weary and faint God does not. We need to be reminded when we cannot stand we need instead to stand on the promise that God will see us through. If we cannot do that, then let us fall on the grace that first brought us to God.
It seems when we are going through a spiritual dryness caused by trials we have to voices battling for our attention. The first being the voice of God calling us to the promises. He will never leave or forsake us. That in the midst of the storms, if we keep our eyes locked on Jesus we will come through the storm in one piece. Oh we will be changed but we will be stronger for the trial. It is through the prayers, support and love of God’s people we will be brought through. We will soar on wings of eagles.
The second voice is the one which says give up, God doesn’t love you. He doesn’t care about you. You’re not on his appointment calendar. Or how about those who say look at the light at the end of the tunnel; when you are afraid to because you are afraid it is a freight train waiting to smack you square in the face.
We like to walk with the turkeys, playing the, oh woes me game. When instead we need to stand on the promise that God will see us through. If we cannot stand, falling on the grace which first brought us to God. That is soaring with eagles. Food for thought. Pastor Travis out.
