A Red Indian Tale

There is an old Red Indian tale about an Indian who found an eagle’s egg one day and decided to put it with his chickens. The egg hatched and the eaglet grew up among the chickens. In almost every way he behaved like a chicken. He clucked like a chicken and pecked food like a chicken. When seed was thrown on to the ground he would flap his wings, just succeeding to raise himself enough above the ground to get to the seed.

One day he was looking up and he saw a beautiful, majestic bird. It was flying very high and gliding with such ease on the air currents. He said “Wow! What’s that bird up there?” Another chicken replied “That’s the eagle the king of the birds, but don’t worry yourself about him. You are just a chicken and you can never be like him! So the eaglet grew old and died, without ever experiencing who he really was.

Conclusion

As sons and daughters of the Living God, we have a powerful new identity in Christ. We are now like the eagle. Royalty. Clothed with authority to go about our Father’s business. But we often still live as chickens because we don’t take advantage of our new identity.