See How Fast You Can Fly!

Father may our time be filled with more of You and less of me. Use this vessel as You see fit. Amen.

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Last week on my afternoon high school route a turkey flew across the road – close enough to know what I was seeing but far enough away that I didn’t have to touch my brakes.

First of all, did you know that turkeys can fly? I did but until I looked into it, I didn’t realize how fast they could fly! A wild turkey’s top speed in flight is 55 miles per hour! That’s as fast as I would drive my bus on the open highways of my route! I’d never have guessed just by looking at them. They are pretty gangly and don’t seem the least bit graceful. Now, of course, that speed is not sustainable for long periods of time…but still!

Without actually seeing a turkey fly or without doing some research, if you would just see a turkey pecking around, you’d never think they were capable of a speedy flight. But that’s exactly the way God made them!

Look at yourself. How many things in life do you think that you are incapable of doing? Maybe there are things we have never attempted because we don’t believe they are possible to accomplish. Sometimes we are thrust into situations where we have no choice but to push through. And when we do, we are often astounded that we did what we did.

God made you with a host of talents and abilities. Many of us barely tap into that reservoir. It’s possible that we have been handicapped by those around us repeatedly telling us that we couldn’t, telling us that we shouldn’t even try. Maybe at first, we pushed back but as time went on, we came to believe the lies told us.

I am almost done reading a second book by Andy Anderson. This is a sequel to his book, The Traveler’s Gift. This one is entitled, The Noticer. They are both excellent reads. They are also very inspirational in that in a “fiction kind of way” they speak of not settling for being average but reaching for what you can accomplish even though you’ve never really even thought that way.

We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. 2 Corinthians 4:7 _NLT

My challenge today would be to not just dismiss new things because you’ve been taught that you are incapable. Test the waters, you never know what God has in store! See how fast you can fly!

Oct 21^st, 2020, Wed, 12:38 pm