Straighten up and fly right!

Straighten up and fly right Sounds like a military slogan, but it's a message for us. Nat King Cole sings a song that has these lyrics in it:"Straighten Up And Fly Right: A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air, The monkey thought that everything was on the square. The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back, The monkey grabbed his neck and said, "Now listen, Jack..." Straighten up and fly right, Straighten up and stay right Straighten up and fly right Problem is it's not in the monkeys nature to fly, so he's hitchin a ride with a vulture, whose nature it is to eat monkeys! Sounds like the wrong kind of partner!Here's the scripture: Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. So even though our nature isn't to fly, we have a new nature, for: Galatians 2:20 "It no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me." And, 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." We must not give in to our old man, and we must have the partnership of Christ, because it's only in Him we can do the impossible, like fly!