God And Eagles (cont'd)

There will come a time in the growing up experience when the mother eagle, "stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young".  This means she rips out the soft feathers.  Flapping her massive wings, she blows away all the comfortable lining materials.  This exposes the eaglets to the prickly briars and thorns.

Try though they may, the eaglets can find no place of comfort.  Things are crowded and uncomfortable because several junior eaglets are competing for the same space.  Complaints and squawks fill the air.  Tests and trials begin to agitate the young eaglets who up to now have known no pain.

Although the junior eaglets do not understand what is happening, the mother eagle has a plan.  She is making the nest uncomfortable for them so that the young eaglets will abandon the nest for the flying lessons.

Similarly, we are all like those eaglets.  We hear the Word and enjoy the preaching.  Life is good and comfortable.  But then God decides it is time for us to do some growing up - and things change rapidly.  Suddenly problems, pain and suffering hit us.  We begin complaining and crying, but all to no avail.

When the testing and suffering has done its works, we will become more matured and refined in our spiritual life; and that is necessary.



Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng