Daily Office - Sunday, March 29

Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:28-31
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Devotional
In his book The Song of the Bird, Tony de Mello tells the following story:
A man found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet 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 chick. 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 a cloudless sky. It glided in a graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.
The eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth-we are chickens."
So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.  

Question to Consider
In what area of your life might you be living as a chicken when God, in reality, has made you an eagle?

Prayer
Father, you have made me a golden eagle-able to fly. In so many ways, however, I still live as a chicken, unaware of the heights and the richness to which you have called me. Fill me, Holy Spirit. Set me free to be the unique person the Lord Jesus has created me to be. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Conclude with Silence (2 minutes)