Riding High
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall rise up on wings as eagles; they shall run and not grow weary, and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
As we travelled home on our 500 seat catamaran ferry last night we watched a Macau hydrofoil ferry join us. They are speedy vessels but as we trundled along in the speed limited zone of the harbour, we were actually running ahead of it – much to my husband’s delight! Not for long though. Soon it accelerated and, as it is designed to do, it rose up out of the water balancing on its ‘water wings’ and sped off into the night. What makes the hydrofoil so fast is not just the large turbine engines that propel it, but the lack of drag in the water which the hull of a normal vessel has. It looks rather like its balancing on stilts.
I am inclined to think that God wants us to be able to rise up in life and move with the same ease as the hydrofoil but unfortunately that is not often the reality and I pondered the reason why. Why do we drag along in the waters of life sometimes getting swamped by the waves? I think it’s because there is too much drag – we are riding too low in the water.
God has told us the way to overcome that. If we will take time to wait upon the Lord – spend time in His presence, away from the world’s pressures – we will be empowered to rise up and “fly on wings like eagles”, far above the things of life that would pull us down. Jesus said that we are in this world but we are not to be of this world or to put it another way, we are not to act and live as the rest of the world does (John 15:19). We now have a “super-natural” life through the Holy Spirit who comes to live in us and empower us for this new life. This new kind of life supersedes the natural life but we have to spend time with God to allow it to be developed in us. Our thinking has to be changed from this world’s way of thinking and we have to line up our thinking with God’s word (Romans 12:2). We do that by spending time reading and studying the Bible and coming into agreement with it. We have to let it “speak to us”. We cannot try to work it out with intellect because it is ‘spiritually discerned’ (1 Corinthians 2:14). The spirit of God is waiting to give us understanding but we have to make time to be with God.
It doesn’t mean that we will never have times where we drag along, or even times when we feel like the waters are over our head, but growth in our spiritual life will result in our faith being strengthened and this will reduce the drag in our lives and lift us up out of the heavy waters of life as we learn to trust God and do things His way.
Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to make time to grow in faith and understanding of your ways so that I can rise up on eagles wings above the storms of life. Amen
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall rise up on wings as eagles; they shall run and not grow weary, and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
As we travelled home on our 500 seat catamaran ferry last night we watched a Macau hydrofoil ferry join us. They are speedy vessels but as we trundled along in the speed limited zone of the harbour, we were actually running ahead of it – much to my husband’s delight! Not for long though. Soon it accelerated and, as it is designed to do, it rose up out of the water balancing on its ‘water wings’ and sped off into the night. What makes the hydrofoil so fast is not just the large turbine engines that propel it, but the lack of drag in the water which the hull of a normal vessel has. It looks rather like its balancing on stilts.
I am inclined to think that God wants us to be able to rise up in life and move with the same ease as the hydrofoil but unfortunately that is not often the reality and I pondered the reason why. Why do we drag along in the waters of life sometimes getting swamped by the waves? I think it’s because there is too much drag – we are riding too low in the water.
God has told us the way to overcome that. If we will take time to wait upon the Lord – spend time in His presence, away from the world’s pressures – we will be empowered to rise up and “fly on wings like eagles”, far above the things of life that would pull us down. Jesus said that we are in this world but we are not to be of this world or to put it another way, we are not to act and live as the rest of the world does (John 15:19). We now have a “super-natural” life through the Holy Spirit who comes to live in us and empower us for this new life. This new kind of life supersedes the natural life but we have to spend time with God to allow it to be developed in us. Our thinking has to be changed from this world’s way of thinking and we have to line up our thinking with God’s word (Romans 12:2). We do that by spending time reading and studying the Bible and coming into agreement with it. We have to let it “speak to us”. We cannot try to work it out with intellect because it is ‘spiritually discerned’ (1 Corinthians 2:14). The spirit of God is waiting to give us understanding but we have to make time to be with God.
It doesn’t mean that we will never have times where we drag along, or even times when we feel like the waters are over our head, but growth in our spiritual life will result in our faith being strengthened and this will reduce the drag in our lives and lift us up out of the heavy waters of life as we learn to trust God and do things His way.
Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to make time to grow in faith and understanding of your ways so that I can rise up on eagles wings above the storms of life. Amen
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