A New Day

By: Pastor Johnie Akers   

Exodus 19:4, “Ye have seen . . . how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.” A writer once observed an eagle flying high among the mountain crags. Suddenly, a quick storm descended, and it seemed for the moment that its fury would dash the eagle to death against the cliffs. But the eagle then turned and faced the storm, tilted his wings at a proper angle, and slowly the fury that might have crushed him instead began to drive him upward, until at last he had risen above the storm. The very power that would have destroyed him became the power by which he reached a new serenity. Our faith in God constitutes that “proper angle” of our wings. Without faith, the raging storms of life might destroy us. With faith, those same storms can miraculously drive us upward and impart to us richness and peace we might never have otherwise known. Study, if you will, the design of an eagle’s wings. Take careful note how the tip of each wing is fashioned. The feathers at the very end of each wing are slightly angled. By turning into a storm, the very winds that would attempt to send the eagle plummeting from the sky, actually provide the lift by which the eagle can soar far above the very tumult that would initially appear to be its demise. Listen friend, today, turn directly into the storm. God has built into your design the ability to harness the potential that lies within each storm; that is, the very challenges that threatened to send you plummeting downward in defeat can actually act as agents of victory and success. For those of you who daily listen to or read online A New Day, you can recount how for years I have shared the stories of men and women who actually used times of great trial to propel them to the heights of success and victory. You are no different. Your ability to overcome is innate. Victory or defeat is determined by which direction you face the storm. I challenge you today, turn toward the storm. God has designed you to soar. The very winds of adversity that threaten to be your demise will actually provide the catalyst to cause you to soar. In doing so, you can soar above the threatening tempest, into the heights of peace that can begin now, with the advent of this new day.