Flying Like an Eagle or Living like a Turkey?

One of my favorite verses in the Bible is:

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27

Look at what God has done for the believer in Jesus… He has planted His Son in us.  And now Jesus wants to live His life through you and me.  This revelation was once hidden but now has been revealed.  This is so unbelievable, that most Christians only see themselves as “poor sinners” instead of our True Identity in the Lord Jesus.  He has adopted us, seated us in the heavenlies, called us His sons and daughters.  Some of the last stuff we learn as followers of Jesus is who we are in Christ.  Consider the following story.

The story is told of an old Indian man who found an eagle's egg, which he placed into a nest of prairie chickens.  The eagle hatched with the chicks and grew up with them. Thinking he was a chicken, the eagle did what the chickens did.  He scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects.  He clucked and he cackled.  He flew in a brief thrashing of wings and a flurry of feathers, but he never got more than a few feet off the ground because he thought he was just a prairie chicken and wasn't supposed to fly.

As time passed, the eagle matured. 

One day he looked up into the sky, and high above him he saw a magnificent bird hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful currents of air.  He marveled at how the bird soared with scarcely a beat of its wings. "What a beautiful bird," the eagle clucked to his prairie chicken neighbors.  "What is it?" "That's an eagle -- chief of all birds," cackled one of the chickens.  "But don't you give it another thought.  You could never be like him. "And so the eagle, thinking he was just a prairie chicken and not able to soar into the heights, lived his life groveling and picking at the ground, never experiencing the exhilaration of flight and the majesty which was his by birthright.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.  -Isaiah 40:30-31