<TITLE>07. Par 30-34</TITLE>L-30 And then John saw Jesus setting in Revelations 1, with a rainbow over Him, and He was to look upon as jasper and sardis stone, which was Benjamin and Reuben. And--and as I thought of those things, I got to feeling the Spirit of God moving on me. You know how you get to feeling...
My mother's a half Indian, and my--and my conversion never took that out of me. And I heard the old gray wolf, howl up in the mountain and the mate answering down in the valley.
David said, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." It really begin to call then. Then I heard the old elk bugle that got lost from the herd. And I got so happy; I got so religious, to you might think I was crazy, but I set my gun down against the tree and around and around and around the tree I went, just as hard as I could go, screaming to the top on my voice. Oh, alone with God.
I guess if someone would've come into the woods and seen me, they'd thought they had someone out of the insane institution out there, but I didn't care. I was worshipping God, and it didn't make any difference what anybody said. I was just enjoying myself.

L-31 And, "Oh," I said, "God, there You are in the sunset. There You are in the rainbow. There You are in the call of the wolf. There You are in the bugle of the elk. Oh, You're everywhere." That's true.
And just then, a little old pine squirrel (kind of the blue coat policeman of the wood, just all fuss, and that's about all there is to him) jumped up on a little old stump there by the blow-down. And he act like he was going to tear me to pieces. And I said, "Now, look little fellow, there's no need of you getting so rough. You can't whip nobody, and nobody's afraid of you. So why are you carrying on? First place, I wouldn't hurt you." And oh, he was just a cut-me-up. And I thought, "Well, what'd you stopped me from worshipping the Lord for? Did I excite you? I'm a worshipping the same God that made you."

L-32 And as I thought there, a little bit, I noticed in the cocking his little head over and looking down where that the old blow-down was. And he wasn't watching me; it was something down beneath there he was watching.
And the winds had blowed a big eagle--we had brown eagle in Colorado--forced him down under this blow-down. And he was all excited about that eagle. And the big fellow jumped up on the limb, graceful looking. And I thought, "Lord God, here You are; You're in nature everywhere, as David saw You; You still remain in nature. You remain in people. You're just the same God. So why would You stop me from worshipping You?"

L-33 You see, God does everything for the good. You say, "What about that sick child?" For the good: God give a testimony, glory, maybe salvation of soul, for healing it. Everything works together for good. And then as they begin to worship Him...
And I thought, "Why was I stopped?" I noticed there's something about that eagle, that he wasn't afraid. You know, God can't use cowards. If you're afraid, just stay away anyhow. If you don't want to take His Word for what He said, just stay out of the army; that's all. He just can't use you.

L-34 So I noticed that he wasn't afraid. And I said, "Big fellow, do you know I could shoot you?" And my rifle was setting against the tree and he... Those great big gray eyes looked at me, and he knew that he could be in that timberline before I ever got my hand on that gun. And he--he... There was something about him that he knew where he was at.
I like to see Christians like that, who's just not wishy-washy: that you're Methodist today, and a Baptist tomorrow, and something else the next day. Know where you're standing. Know Who your Redeemer is, where your life come from.


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