A Team Player - A Soaring Eagle

      This is another transparent moment...not many will understand what I'm saying but, I'm sure some will. Years ago it was told to me that I was a great cheerleader, but God wants me to "get in the game". Recently, those words came back to me with a mighty force. She commented on how I was always standing on the sidelines cheering everyone else on. How many of us do that? It's good to be the one that is always encouraging, motivating and pushing but....what are you doing? At some point, its your turn to "get in game", right? What else are you called to do? What else is required of you? I was told recently in spirit of love that if I was left to my own devices, I would be content to sit in the back and clear tables-not being seen or heard. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that unless YOU HAVE A VOICE THAT IS MEANT TO BE HEARD. I was told not to keep doing that..I'm not made for the background.  I might not know exactly what to say...BUT, SAY SOMETHING! LOL!! These words hit home and also bought back a memory of a sermon I heard years ago about Eagles & Chickens. Why in the world would an EAGLE with an 6 foot wing span be clucking on the ground with chickens when he was meant to SOAR in the clouds, above storms?  As I drove home from that conversation with a new fire in my soul, I realized that at some point, I had not only stopped "cheering". I had left the field! When did that happen?  I was literally sitting in the bleachers with the jersey on. How ODD is that?? The fact that you are on the team is obvious. Whose side you are on is obvious...everyone around you KNOWS you are on the team..but, why are you sitting up on the bleachers with everyone else watching the game? Trying to blend into the background when in reality, it's impossible. GOD WANTS YOU TO GET IN THE GAME. For some reason, this scripture came to me..14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."  
      So, I pose a question...what's holding you back? What's keeping you out of the game?  Why are you trying to dim your light? With me, it was issues of life. Sometimes we can go through really tough things that sidetrack us or knock us down for a season...but, you can't stay there. Really, its impossible.. God will send people, situations and things to get you up and back on track..to stir your fire again. To begin your restoration process.  He wants to restore us and build us up, but we have to be willing to get out of our "self made" comfort zones that we may have built up around ourselves when times got hard.  Those shields and guards that were erected to protect yourself from further hurt and pain can't go back up into the air with you, eagle. You can't soar with weights. So, I challenge you through the power of God to shake them off. Don't let the trials and tribulations of this life hold you down eagle. Instead, let them become the wind beneath your wings and go higher....