Flying With The Eagles

I love watching bald eagles. I remember standing on the beach of Echo Ranch, Alaska, seeing an Eagle fly in, swoop down and snatch a fish out of the water. Moments later it would stand on the ground tearing into its prey. Eagles are majestic, powerful, and inspiring. When I lived at the lake house, in Pandora, Ohio, I saw a couple of Eagles perched in the trees across the water. Rebecca was walking our little dachshund when one of the Eagles began to circle over them. She quickly called him back and took him into the house. Eagles are not only powerful, they can be terrifying.

Our feathered friends are not the only Eagles. A singing group, of my generation, produced some good music and lyrics. The following is part of one of their songs:

I was standing

All alone against the world outside

You were searching

For a place to hide

Two people experiencing life and searching for meaning; the first alone, standing against the world, the second searching, alone and hiding. The singer continues:

Don't you worry

Sometimes you've just gotta let it ride

The world is changing

Right before your eyes

Now I've found you

There's no more emptiness inside

When we're hungry, love will keep us alive

The first person assures the second that life changes quickly, but because they have found each other, life has 

meaning, the emptiness is gone, and the hunger they experienced is satisfied by their love. It’s a great sentiment, and one for which we have been created. Love between a man and woman is to bring the kind of meaning and satisfaction described by the Eagles. If only it were so simple; to live off love. Yet, even in the good feelings of love, sin tears at the fabric of God’s best until even loving couples find themselves alone against the world, and hiding in the bushes from ther Creator. Another song writer wrote:

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;

his understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the faint,

and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Even youths shall faint and be weary,

and young men shall fall exhausted;

but 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. (Isa. 40:28-31)

How do we run and not grow weary, walk and not faint in a world that is ever changing before our eyes? Only if we trust in the only one who doesn’t change, the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. We find meaning in our relationships when they are grounded in the unsesrchable nature of God. When we trust in Him, His promises, His plan, His Word, then we mount up on wings like eagles and sore to the heights of the heavens. His love will keep us strong, His love keeps us alive. I’m just saying...