Releasing Your New Identity
Chapter Seven
This chapter starts out with a Native American Fable about at young brave who swiped a golden eagle egg from it’s nest and placed it with a bunch of prairie chicken eggs. The eagle egg hatched and grew up thinking he was a praire chicken. He scratched and clucked like all the other chickens and never flew more than a few feet off the ground.
One day the eagle saw a great shadow pass over him. He looked up to see a huge bird soaring with wings widespread. He marveled at the beauty of the bird. His praire chicken brother told him it was an eagle. “A golden eagle. He’s king of the air. No bird can compare with him. But don’t give it a second thought; you could never be like him.”
And the eagle didn’t give it a second thought, but went back to clucking and scratching like all the other praire chickens.
What a powerful visual of the way too many Christians live out their lives and faith. Though God created us like eagles to soar and to know Him more intimately than others, who are content to scratch around, picking our way through our faith and missing the intimacy God has planned for us.
I am so guilty of this. I let life get in the way of knowing the One who is life. If you’ve noticed the date of my last entry, that’s the last time I really dug into the word of God. If I’m not willing to fly, how can God possibly teach me to soar?
Releasing your new identity, according to Dwight Edwards, is all about “falling in love with our true design.” I believe my “true design” is to soar. To rise above my current circumstances and existence to a place greater than I can dream or imagine. Then why do I rarely walk in my “true design?” Maybe because I haven’t completely embraced the fact that I’m no longer who I used to be. Maybe my daily sin reminds me of the praire chicken I still think I am. Maybe I feel I can only live in the shadow of the mighty eagle.
This chapter radically changed how I viewed myself. It made it easier for me to see the eagle I truly am. I look forward to sharing the details next time!
