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It's Sort Of Like The Fable That Evangelist D. L. ...
Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009 (message contributor)
It’s sort of like the fable that evangelist D. L. Moody used to tell. It seems there were two eagles. One of the eagles won every race and the other eagle was jealous. One day, the jealous eagle overheard a hunter say, “I’d bring down that eagle if I had decent fletching on my arrows.” The eagle eagerly pulled out some of his own feathers and dropped them in front of the hunter. The hunter saw what had happened and smiled. He quickly fitted the feathers into his arrows, took aim at the faster eagle, and moaned, “Oh, that eagle is so fast that I’ll need more fletched arrows to bring that one down.” Hearing this, the jealous eagle pulled out some more feathers, so many more that he could no longer fly. This time, the hunter notched his arrow, turned around, and killed the jealous eagle instead of the fast one. (from Moody’s Anecdotes, pp. 44-45)
In Moody’s fable, it was the eagle’s jealousy that brought him down, but the tragedy is that the eagle brought disaster on himself because he was oblivious to his danger. This is what has happened to Ephraim (Israel). Like an athlete who doesn’t know when it’s time to retire and seems to have made a parody of his own persona without realizing it, God’s people are ineffective without realizing it. When we lose our sense of God’s presence, God’s purpose, and God’s power, we lose our ability to truly serve God.
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Elizabeth Elliot Tells In Her Book "Passion And ... PRO
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 9, 2004
Elizabeth Elliot tells in her book “Passion and Purity,” how on her first date with Jim Elliot (one of the five martyred missionaries in Ecuador), they went to a missionary meeting at Moody Church in Chicago, late in April. The speaker was one of the daughters of the famous missionary to Africa ...read more
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The Picture Series Are Frozen Both In Time And In ... PRO
Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Jan 12, 2005
The picture series are frozen both in time and in memory. The scene unfolds from the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Two runners, one American, the other from South Africa, although of British descent. The starter’s pistol fires and around the track the runners race for the finishing line. ...read more
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