Pecking Pigeons

Pecking Pigeons Not Soaring Eagles

I heard the most wonderful phrase in this Sunday mornings sermon. The speaker said that the church has not assumed its place in Christ and that, as a consequence, we are more like pecking pigeons than soaring eagles.

What a lovely turn of phrase and it speaks volumes too. While God is waiting for us to join Him in the heights and soar like eagles – gloriously majestic, we are so busy worrying about various things that we, like pigeons, peck around in the dust seeking some food there.

Why should we soar like eagles? Because of 1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” The trouble is that we do not quite believe that we are chosen, priests, and God’s own people, so we do not declare anything much at all, even less do we even believe we can.

This scripture is part of the destiny of all believers and I believe God is calling all who really do believe to step into that destiny today and to walk in it in 2013. Let us then walk as a chosen people. Let us be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. Let us fully realise that we belong to God and declare His praises in our actions as well as our words.

Then we will soar like eagles – no longer destined to peck like pigeons.