Identity Crisis   

Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the Indian brave who found an eagle's egg and, for some reason, put it in the nest of a turkey. Eventually the eaglet hatched with a brood of turkeys and grew up with them. All his life that eagle thought he was a turkey, so he did what the turkeys did. He scratched in dirt for seeds and insects to eat. When he tried to fly, it was in a brief thrashing of wings and a flurry of feathers, but he never got more than a few feet off the ground. After all, he thought he was a turkey, and that's how turkeys are supposed to fly.
Time went by, and that eagle grew older. One day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in a beautiful cloudless sky. It soared with graceful majesty with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. "What a beautiful bird!" he said to his neighbor. "What is it?" The neighbor replied, "That's an eagle, the chief of birds. But don't give it second thought; you could never be like him." So the eagle never gave it another thought, and he lived and died thinking he was just a turkey.
Unfortunately, that kind of thing can happen to people too. In the last several hundred years, there have been 53 documented cases of "feral children," children who had been lost in the wild and reared, nurtured, and protected by animals. Even when attempts were made to bring them into human society, they still struggled to realize what and who they really were.
And what about us as Christians? Is it possible for us as God’s people to sometimes forget who and what we are? We are—by virtue of the cleansing blood of Christ and the sanctifying work of God’s Spirit—raised to be children of God. And while we may live IN this world, we are not to be OF this world.
God wants you to know you’re not a turkey. He wants you to know who you really are. He wants you to be an eagle as you are meant to be. Remember who you are, and live the life that God has called you to live!

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