A bald eagle is a doting spouse and parent. The bird mates for life, rears its chicks, and allows the younglings to return to the nest for up to a year.
However, as with any good parent, a change occurs in the parent/child relationship, a tipping point, so to speak. The bald eagle eventually forces its young to venture out on its own. To do this, the parents try to tempt the young to fly, often with a bit of food. Later, they will no longer tolerate the young birds in the nest.
The young eagle is forced to begin building a life of its own. Its parents no longer abide it living in their house.
God also has tipping points of his own. He cares for his children, but there comes the time we are no longer welcome in our birth nest, and he wants us to move on.
This idea is presented very clearly in 1 Peter 3:12, where we are told that the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, but his face is against those who do evil. Man might be born into sin, but we must grow past that, if we wish to remain in God’s good graces.
Proverbs 10:27 reinforces Peter’s words, for the fear of the Lord prolongs our lives, but the years of the wicked are short.
In Genesis 6:3 God tells man that there is a limit to the time his spirit will abide in our fleshly bodies. We have no time to play at being children. We cannot say, “But tomorrow I will turn to the Lord, for today I wish to have my pleasure in the world.”
We are wise to be reminded of the rich man in Luke 12:16-21. If we continue to build our storehouses to the things of this world, and we let the things of Christ stagnate, then we will find God pushing us out of our nest, telling us, “This night your soul will be required of you.”
The eagle’s chick is a treasure to its parent. However, even a treasure becomes a burden if it hangs around too long. God wants us to stretch our wings and fly. He has a job for us to do.
When God tempts us out of the nest, it is time for us to fly on the wings of his grace.
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