SOAR!

This spring my friends and I took a trip to Hershey Park; we decided to take a detour from the rides about half way through the day to visit the zoo. While walking around oohing and aahing over the animals we arrived at the eagles nest. We watched as the giant bird sat on a tree branch. My friend leaned over and whispered, “I want to see him fly.” I told him to pray and make his request known to God.

So he stood quiet, peering at the bald eagle. We both watched eagerly expecting our Daddy to grant his request. But the bird just sat there. Suddenly before we finally decided to leave, the bird stretched out his 6-8 foot wing span and we discovered that the bird had an injured wing… He couldn’t fly!

Although we were disappointed at realizing we were not going to see the breathtaking bird soar in the sky, I heard the Holy Spirit speak to me the well-known verse Isaiah 40:31:

“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.”

The challenge in connecting that verse to the sight before me was not seeing the eagle mount up and soar. But the Lord whispered to me that it wasn’t necessarily about soaring, but about the waiting.

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. …

God spoke to me, “My child, it’s in the waiting that I am able to heal you and prepare you for the soar.”
I want to encourage you today, that although you may feel as though you are just sitting patiently on the branch with little or no action in your life, God is preparing you. Your season of waiting is really a season of healing and preparation! So as you allow God to heal your wings (your heart, soul, mind, body, emotions and your situation) He is preparing you to take flight. And oh what a sight you’ll be when you are soaring!!!