<TITLE>12. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Now, I happened to hear a noise. And I looked over there and there was a little old pine squirrel. I don't guess you people, unless you been in the mountains, know what one is. They call them little mountain jacks. They're little bitty fellows about like that, and the noisiest thing there is in the woods, holler at everything.
He was standing on an old stump. There was a blow down there. He was setting upon an old stump going chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter; chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter. I thought, "What's you so excited about, little fellow?" I thought he... it was 'cause I was screaming and carrying on. So I thought, "I'm not going to hurt you."

L-27 But I happened to notice coming out from under the--the--the blow down, where the trees had blowed over years ago, a blow down, there was some stuff there, and there'd been a great, big American eagle had been forced down in the storm, and it was under that drift. That's what the little fellow was excited about.
So the big eagle jumped out of there, and he set up on there and he looked at me. I admired him. And I thought, "God, why did You stop me over here to show me something here?" I believe God's everywhere, if you'll just look around Him. I believe He's here right now. He's everywhere, if you'll just look around. And God is in His universe.
How could that world tip and turn and everything, just exactly the way it does, and revolve to the same time through the solar system? My, you couldn't--you couldn't believe that without believing in God. How great He is.

L-28 I wondered why God attracted my attention to that old eagle. I looked at him then. Why, I thought, "He's just an old scavenger. Why do... Why would I be attracted to him?" But I noticed him, one thing, his bravery. My, and I thought, "Well, that's what the little--the little squirrel's a barking at; it's that eagle."
Well, I looked at him. He'd look over at that squirrel, then he'd look over to me; he'd look over at the squirrel, and he look over me. I thought, "Well, are you scared?" And he... Them great big eyes flashed and looked at me, look back to the squirrel. And I thought, "Well, God, one thing, I believe You're in that wolf call; I believe You're in the rainbow; I believe You're in these evergreens; I believe You're in this wind that's whistling through these trees. Now, where You at in that eagle?"
But I noticed him: he was brave. There's where He was at. God don't like cowards. He wants men that's got backbone instead of a wishbone, somebody who says, "God's Word is right, and God's true, and let everything else be a lie."
As Eddie Perronet said...
 All hail the power of Jesus' Name!
 Let angels prostrate fall;
 Bring forth the royal diadem,
 And crown Him Lord of all.
 All around my soul gives way,
 Then He's all my hope and stay.
 On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
 All other ground is sinking sand.
That's right. God wants men and women who's got courage, and courageous enough to stand out and call black black and white white. That's right. Take that wishbone out and put a backbone in there, something that God can move on. That's right.


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