7 Day Countdown to #WhereOnlyEaglesDare Day 1: Lay Aside the Weight

Lay Aside the Weight
Hebrews 12 begins with a call for us to first realised what we have (Seeing we are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses), second, to lay aside the weighty things (let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and (3) persist in the race set before us (and let us run with patience the race that is set before us).  
Eagles are fearless and will attempt to take down small and large animals, but it cannot fly for long distance with weight which throws out its balance in the air.  This is because the eagles ability to soar to great heights is inextricably tied to its weight.  Though the eagle boast close to 7000 feathers, its actual skeletal system weights in at less than half the weight of its feathers.  Importantly also, the bones of the eagle are hollow, which greatly contributes to its lightweight and agility in flight. 
Although the eagle could mass between 8 and 16 pounds, and is large when compared to most other birds, yet its design for flight involves a careful load balance,  otherwise take off and light could prove impossible.
Similarly, we as eagle saints cannot run with weights.  We cannot lug around excess baggage if we intend to run this race successfully.  Additionally, we cannot attain to the lofty heights with extra burden, we need to lay them aside.  The weight of malice, the weight of bitterness, the weight of envy, the weight of hatred, the weight of impurity, the weight of fornication, the weight of adultery, the weight of idolatry, the weight of other sins and sinful traits must all be cut loose.
Understand that soar necessitates lightness, holding on to hurts and feelings of distress, will cause the eagle-Christian to wander around unable to lift off.  It will bring us down to lower plains, for which we are not designed, causing us to carelessly be preyed upon.
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​Dr Claudette King