We have all experienced times when we feel quite inadequate, and that our lives will never amount to anything. The truth is God has plans for each of us, and He wants so much to bring them to pass in our lives. My Father told me a story about an eagle that had been chained to a perch for many years. A man came by one day and saw the eagle and his heart broke. He knew the eagle was created to fly and soar across the mountaintops. The man purchased the eagle for a great price. He took the eagle home and released it from the chains that had bound it. To his surprise the eagle remained on the perch, for it did not realize or understand, that he had been purchased and set free. God sees us as the man saw the eagle. He knows we were created to soar. He sent His Son to release us from our chains, and Jesus Christ purchased our freedom. We are free to be all that God has created us to be, and to do all that He desires us to do. He knows what we are capable of. With our own strength we will faint; but with our hearts and our hope in Jesus, we will soar on wings like eagles. It is time to get off the perch.