"No Flying Lessons Are Required When Truth Is Realized"

"A nature conservation officer told us of a fascinating incident when they released a black eagle a week prior that had been in the Pretoria Zoo for ten years. She told us how excited they were when the bird finally arrived in its wooden crate. This was the day for this eagle to be freed and return to the life of its design. But their excitement soon turned to frustration when, after opening the cage, the bird refused to fly! Ten years of caged life seemed to have trapped its mind in an invisible enclosure! How could they get the eagle to realize that it was indeed free? No amount of prompting and prodding seemed to help. Then, after some hours the bird suddenly looked up, and in the distance they heard the call of another eagle; this was the moment of true freedom! Immediately the zoo-eagle took off in flight! No flying lessons are required when truth is realized!”

The above story is an excerpt from Francois du Toit's Mirror Bible, he goes on to say, "If the Gospel is not the voice of the free eagle, it is not the Gospel". 

How long have we lived under the bondage of a religious system that cripples instead of heals? It causes us to view ourselves through the lens of failures rather than seeing with the eyes of the cross. We place ourselves under the law, only to nullify the Cross of Christ.

Brennan Manning makes this statement, "We judge ourselves unworthy servants, and that judgement becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We deem ourselves to inconsiderable to be used even by a God capable of miracles with no more than mud and spit. And thus our false humility shackles an otherwise omnipotent God."

Due to the boredom and bondage of religion, many of our church pews are filled with believers who are operating from a sin-consciousness, striving to earn something they already possess. Failures begin to define life rather than truth.  Instead of empowering and liberating, religion intimidates and enslaves. Therefore, we become a powerless people, unable to recognize the voice of Abba because religion has made us to deaf. 

In the words of Francois, "The revelation of God's righteousness has to be far more effective than man's slavery to sin." We must  take hold of the reality that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Not on the basis of our own doing, but on the basis of God's faith. 

"For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh" - Romans 8:3

WE as the body of Christ need a revelation of our true identity in Him. This revelation will ignite a fire in the church that will be unquenchable. Accusation will continue to come, but as we stand confidently and declare "I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus", demons will shudder. 

Do you know who you are?

The voice of the free eagle is calling, can you hear the echo of Abba within you? 

He calls you son.

He calls you daughter. 

You are free.