Thursday, July 31 || DO NOT WASTE GOD-GIVEN POTENTIAL!

Honey Drops for Every Soul
Jul 31
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“Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me.” “O Lord, please send someone else.” - Exodus 4:1, 13

A chicken went for a walk across the fields, down the hill. One day it came upon an egg lying on the ground. After some time, there was a tapping noise from the egg and out came a baby eagle! The chicken adopted the baby eagle and looked after it as if it were its own. Every day the two of them walked across the fields, down the hill. One day, the baby eagle looked up and there soaring high above was a wonderful, graceful bird. “Wow,” said the baby eagle, “What’s that?” The chicken said, “That’s an eagle. It is one of the most amazing creatures that God has ever made.” The baby eagle said, “Oh, if only I could be like that.” “Ah,” said the chicken, ‘’but you are just a chicken, like me.” And off they went home. Day after day, the baby eagle would stop and look up towards sky and stare at the wonderful eagle flying above. Days rolled by into months and years, the eagle became old and finally one day it died! Is it not a sad story?

Dear friends, the baby eagle had a dream, an ambition, and an aim.  But it failed to reach its full potential in life because it listened to the chicken which led it to believe that such a dream was unobtainable.  We too are like that eagle.  From time to time, we can be heard to say, “What if…?” or “If only…”  Let us not waste our lives by thinking of all the negatives that might happen to us and finally end up achieving nothing.  Let us not listen to Satan’s deceptive words. Let us trust God that He will never leave us, but will certainly empower us to complete the task that He has assigned for us.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, I am ashamed to confess I had been negative in my outlook towards Your call. I have often listened to Satan and wasted many opportunities of serving You. Forgive me. Let not my life end in a sad note like that of the baby eagle. Let me use my potential to the fullest. Amen.