In GENESIS, the world was made;
In EXODUS, the march is told;
LEVITICUS contains the Law;
In NUMBERS are the tribes enrolled.

In DEUTERONOMY again,
We're urged to keep God's Law alone;
And these five books of Moses make
The oldest holy writing known.

Brave JOSHUA to Canaan leads;
In JUDGES, oft the Jews rebel;
We read of David's name in RUTH
And FIRST and SECOND SAMUEL.

In FIRST and SECOND KINGS we read
How bad the Hebrews state became;
In FIRST and SECOND CHRONICLES
Another history of the same.

In EZRA, captive Jews return.
And NEHEMIAH builds the wall;
Queen ESTHER saves her race from death.
The books “Historical” we call.

In JOB we read of patient faith;
In PSALMS are David's songs of praise;
The PROVERBS are to make us wise;
ECCLESIASTES next portrays,

How fleeting earthly treasures are;
The SONG OF SOLOMON is all
About true love, like Christ's; and these
Five books “Devotional” we call.

ISAIAH tells of Christ to come,
While JEREMIAH tells of woe,
And in his LAMENTATIONS mourns
The Holy City's overthrow.

EZEKIEL speaks of mysteries;
And DANIEL foretells kings of old;
HOSEA over Israel grieves;
In JOEL blessings are foretold.

In AMOS too, are Israel's woes;
And OBADIAH's sent to warn;
While JONAH shows that Christ should die
And MICAH where he shold be born.

In NAHUM Nineveh is seen;
HABAKKUK tells of Chaldea's guilt;
In ZEPHANIAH are Judah's sins;
In HAGGAI the Temple's built.

Then ZECHARIAH speaks of Christ,
And MALACHI of John, his sign;
The Prophets number seventeen,
And all the books are thirty nine.

MATTHES, MARK, LUKE and JOHN
Tell what Christ did in every place;
The ACTS tell what what the Apostles did,
And ROMANS how we're saved by grace.

CORINTHIANS instructs the Church;
GALATIANS shows us faith alone;
EPHESIANS, true love, and in
PHILIPPIANS God's grace is shown.

COLOSSIANS tells us more of Christ,
And THESSALONIANS of the end;
In TIMOTHY and TITUS both
Are rules for pastors to attend.

PHILEMON, Christian friendship shows
Then HEBREWS clearly tells how all
The Jewish law prefigured Christ;
And these Epistles are by Paul.

JAMES shows that faith by works must live,
And PETER urges steadfastness;
While JOHN exhorts to Christian love,
For those who have it God will bless.

JUDE shows the end of men,
And REVELATION tells of Heaven.
This ends the whole New Testament
And all the books are twenty seven.

- Author unknown

The eagle is a symbol used many times in Scripture; 
in fact, it is mentioned 38 times throughout the Bible. 
We can learn some important lessons from this 
majestic creation of God. Eagles have a wing span of
2 meters and are around 90 cm tall. The eagle mates 
for life and use the same nest for life. This nest is 
built in a safe place, often on the ledge of a sharp 
cliff. It is built to last and the largest nest reported 
is 9½ feet wide and 20 feet deep.

When the babies are born, both parents assume 
responsibility for their care. They are gentle parents, 
sitting on the eggs for one month. The parents 
bring food up to the nest and feed them small pieces 
of meat. Within 45 days they can weigh nearly 40 
times their birth weight. At three months they get 
special feathers for flying and a new learning 
experience begins. The mother eagle flies into the 
nest and begins to thrash around causing a great 
commotion. Eventually one of the babies will fall out 
of the nest and begin heading for the earth below. Never having used his wings 
before, he's not really sure what to do, but does do lots of flapping while heading 
straight down! Just before the baby hits the ground, the mother eagle flies underneath
 in order to 'catch' the baby on her powerful wings and she flies him safely back to the nest.
This continues on day after day until all the babies learn to fly.

There are two verses in scripture that actually mention this routine of
the eagle. In Deuteronomy 32:10,11 Moses reminds the children of Israel how
God cared for them and guarded them just "like an eagle that stirs up its
nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and
carries them on its pinions." Again in Exodus 19:4 God says that "He will carry
the children of Israel on eagles' wings".

We can get very comfortable in our 'nest'. Perhaps that could be our
way of doing things, our way of thinking, our opinions, our way of living
life. Then when God comes and 'stirs up our nest' we get upset. We don't
always identify this as a growing experience. Sometimes if we were really
honest, we really don't want to grow. We get very complacent and satisfied with
where we are and any interruptions are viewed as negative. But God
wants us to fly - to become all that He intends us to become. He never stirs up
our nest without good reason!

The eagle can see a rabbit two miles away. It can soar up to two miles
above the ground and can fly at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.
They have a separate eyelid which slides across the eye sideways in order to
keep the eye clean and free from dust as they fly. Their bones are
hollow and therefore light of frame. Their frame has cross ribs like steel
bars in sky scrapers. The eagle has 7000 feathers. The back feathers are as
long as the head feathers. Their beak is black until age of 3 years and then
turns golden.

When eagles are about 30 years old they go through a renewal process.
They find a secret place high in the mountains and begin to claw at their
face and tear out the feathers that have been damaged over the years. As a
result, it bleeds badly. But this is necessary for the eagle in order
to renew its strength. If it did not do this it would not be able to live
to its normal 60 years of age.

Psalms 103:5 says "who satisfies your desires with good things so that
your youth is renewed like the eagles." A time of renewal is necessary for
every child of God. A time when we get rid of what is weighing us down,
holding us back, aging us spiritually. A time to give up the sinful habits, to
give in to the Holy Spirit in whatever way He is convicting us. We need to
do this even to the point of renewal with pain! Some things we hold on to
so tightly that to let go, actually causes us pain. But in order to have
the long, powerful, useful spiritual life that God plans for us, we need to
do that. It will renew our spiritual youthfulness.

When the eagle is free to soar in God's creation, they are the cleanest
of birds. They were created to be free and to soar to great heights. They
were not meant to remain close to the earth in the lowlands. They were
created to soar. When eagles are held in captivity, they become one of the
dirtiest birds.

God has created us to remain pure and holy and conformed to his image.
Don't allow the freedom we are to experience in Him, to be compromised
by spending too much time in worldly thinking, activities, mindsets.
Remain clean!

Eagles do not fly like other birds, they don't flap their wings but
rather soar. Flapping their wings would use incredible amounts of their own
strength and endurance and they would require so much more food as fuel
if they didn't soar. Instead they sit on a high ledge and wait for the
right wind currents to come. When the time is right, they take off and soar
upward. Effortlessly, because they have waited for the right time.
There is a special 'up going' wind, that they ride as it circles higher and
higher toward the sky.

What a lesson for God's children to learn. How often do we waste
strength by jumping out too soon and 'flapping our wings', instead of waiting
for God's timing. Waiting is not a popular concept in these days of instant
everything! But when we wait on the Lord - wait for His timing - wait
for His answers - wait for His direction, then we can soar to new heights
and fly to new places.

"Those who wait on 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 faint."

Thanks to Roseanne B. for forwarding this message.