<TITLE>10. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Oh, I tell you; when you go to talking about God, and try to bottle Him down to somebody's idea, He's so... As the little Christian song we used to sing when I was a pastor:
Jesus is so high you can't get over Him,
So deep you can't get under Him.
So wide you can't get around Him,
So just open up your heart and let Him in.
When you can't get over Him, and under Him, and around Him and yet your heart will hold him, what a wonderful thought. How wonderful He is.
But God in His universe, how He governs the things, how He moves, and his motions, and things, and everything obeys Him, everything. He can say to the star do this, and it'll do it. Everything He speaks to... Only one thing that won't obey Him and that's man. Man knows more about it than He does, so see he just--he's got his own ideas, and so he won't listen to God. But if a man just opened his eyes and look around you can see God everywhere.

L-38 I remember not long ago, being... When I was a little boy, I was... The first Bible I ever read was--was looking at nature. I could see how God moved, and why--how He done things, and I knew there was a God. I watched...
One day my daddy and I were plowing corn, and I... A storm come up, and I remember dad said... The... Well... We didn't see the storm yet, but the horses begin to snort and go on. I said, "Dad, what's the matter?"
He said, "Son, there's a storm coming."
I said, "A storm coming?" It was just as bright as it could be.
He said, "You know, son, there's something strange about it." He said, "But horses has an instinct that they can tell just exactly where... If there's storms coming." Said, "Almighty God has made a way for them that they can get to safety."

L-39 "Well," I thought, "well, that's marvelous." And then it wasn't... We didn't plow two more rounds hardly until the lightning was flashing, and the storm coming up. Well, if God gave a horse knowledge enough how to get to safety, how much more He ought to give a Church that's borned again. Don't you think so? How God empowered that horse with instinct...
Here not long ago I was planting some butter beans, and how many knows what a groundhog is? It's a... You call it a woodchuck, I guess. It's a... Down South we call him a groundhog, a little bitty fellow. And just as fast as I'd plant them butter beans that little fellow eat them up. And I couldn't get nowhere. And I'd go out there, and there his little old tracks going right down, where he'd dug them every one up and went down. He lived in a--a little old sink hole out there. I didn't want to shoot the little old fellow, so I thought I'd just have some fun out of him.

L-40 So I planted me another row of butter beans, and I thought, "I'll fix you, young man." And I got me a sack and plant... and painted a great, big, ugly picture on it, and I tried to make it ugly. And brother, I'm a long ways from being an artist, I tell you that.
I was trying to teach one night on a chart, and I drawed a picture of a dog, and nobody knowed what it was, and I had to write on top of it "This is a dog." So they could tell.
So you can imagine what this picture looked like: great, big ears and everything. And I--I said... Now, I put some butter beans right in a sack and tied it on a stick and the winds was blowing. And I thought, "Boy, when he sees that, he will run." So I got me a ringside seat up there in the bushes, and I was watching this little fellow through my glasses, you know.


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