"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."  Romans 12:2


There's an old fable that talks about a man who found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen.  The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.  All his life, the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken.

He scratched the earth for worms and insects.  He clucked and cackled.  And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet in the air..

Years passed and the eagle grew very old.  One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky.  It glided in graceful majesty among powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.  The old eagle looked up in awe.  "Who's that?"  he asked.  "That's the eagle, the king of birds," said his neighbor.  "He belongs to the sky.  We belong to the earth - we're chickens."  

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.

As a born again Christian, you have the ability to soar!  You are no longer that chicken who clucks, you are like the eagle who can soar above life's circumstances.  Helen Keller once said, "One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar."  That impulse to soar comes from your Heavenly Father.

The above scripture commands us "Do not be conformed to this world."  Being conformed to the pattern of this world keeps us bound to the world's way of thinking.  It's like the caterpillar crawling on it's belly, until it goes to and through the cocoon - it's subject to the ground.  

The scripture goes on to say, "but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."  The word transformed means the same as metamorphosis - it's a process of change.  When our minds become renewed by the Word of God, we are going through that metamorphosis, and like the caterpillar, we shall become a butterfly - no longer subject to crawling on the ground - but soaring above it.

You were born to soar!  Don't allow yourself to think like the eagle who became too chicken to soar with the eagles.  Renew your mind with God's Word and find yourself soaring above life's circumstances.