The Church

One day, a visitor asked the farmer why the greatest of all birds was acting like a chicken. The farmer relayed the story of how he had found the eagle and had no other place to put him. Then he told the visitor how the eagle couldn’t fly because it had never been taught.

The visitor took the eagle up a step ladder and held it out and told the great bird to fly away. When he let go, the eagle dropped down among the chickens again. Finally, the man took the eagle to the top of the barn and held it out and told it to fly. As he dropped the bird, the eagle spread its wings and slowly soared up and away, out of sight forever.

We were all born as chickens, destined to root around in this world, being non productive. But when we receive Jesus, we become the greatest of our kind, and it is at that point we are commissioned to soar and be productive for our Lord.

As we go into our time of invitation, I wonder if you have spent your Christian life soaring like an eagle, or slipping back to pecking like a chicken. No matter who you are, or how much you have done for God, He wants so much more out of you than you have given so far. He simply wants all of you. And He deserves nothing less.

INVITATION