Like Eagles

we should be far-sighted, able to zoom past our present circumstances into our bright future.

Job 39:27-30 Voice in the Wilderness (VW) Does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make its nest on high? It settles down and dwells on the rocks, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold. From there it searches for food; its eyes see great distances.Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.Isa 40:31 KJV But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run , and not be weary ; and they shall walk , and not faint .

I learned from Discovery Channel and the internet that the eagle's eyes are similar in size to our eyes but they are more powerful than ours:Eagles' eyesight is more vivid because of the 5 times resolution compared to ours. There is a special area on the retina called the fovea which is responsible for sharp vision where there is an enormous concentration of the rod and cone vision cells. Our fovea has 200,000 cones per square millimeter, giving us wonderful vision. Eagles have about a million cones per square millimeter.The back of their eyes, the retina, is flatter and larger than the back of our eyes, giving them much larger image than we can see.Eagles have 2 foveae per eye, we humans only have one. One is directed forward used for binocular vision when paired with the other eye, the other to the side used for monocular vision looking sideways. So eagles can see both forward and to the side at the same time.Eagles have visual perspective of some 300 degrees as well as extra focusing power. Our visual field is just 150 degrees laterally, and only 180 degrees binocularly, or a half circle. Eagles just can see wider. Humans change the shape of their lenses to focus but eagles can change the shape of both their lens and cornea giving them extra focusing power.Birds are considered tetrachromatic and, in some species, possibly pentachromatic, while we are trichromatic. We have cones that are sensitive to red, green and blue (three colors, thus trichromatic), while tetrachromatic birds have an additional ultraviolet. Eagles can see wavelength we humans cannot see.Their visual acuity is at least 8 times that of ours.Eagle's can see about three to four times further than us.Eagles simply see more details compared to us. And with their eyes they are able to see clearly from a far and see sharper images than humans.Chickens on the other hand are near-sighted. And they should really be as they get their food only from a claw-reach distance, the ground where they are standing. But we Christians are not chickens, we are like eagles instead able to see far beyond our immediate reach.Eagles dwell in high places and fly high to see the bigger picture, the bird's eye view. But the aerial view is still not the complete picture as we also need side views. So the eagle can fly around an object like mountains to see the side views as well. When an eagle landed on the ground, it can also have worm's eye view, the vantage point from the ground. Chickens only have a limited view from the ground though.Literally, the bigger picture means views from all important angles, a complete space-wise 3D picture. But I believe this is still an incomplete picture for the Christians even if you try to include a 3D walk. A complete view includes time, not only the past and present but also with great emphasis of the future. A complete picture includes the future.Remember that Christians are future thinkers.Your vision given by God is the big picture of your future.