<TITLE>12. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 And to continue about on the mountain, as I stood there, and I was going around and around this tree, just rejoicing with all of my heart. You know, I--when I feel religious (I do right now), I--I kinda get emotional. I--I guess you might call it fanaticism, but somebody said, "Billy, you act like you haven't got your right mind."
I said, "Well then, just leave me alone, because I feel better this a way than I did the other way. So if I haven't got my right mind, just let me keep this one, because I enjoy this much better, knowing God in it."
And so I--I... Around and around the tree I went. And I was standing with my hands up, saying, "God, Thou art my Father. Oh, I love Thee, You Who made the mountain and made me to enjoy it, made the wild animals. And here I stand bathing in Your Presence. Why can't men see You in Your great universe?"

L-50 How can they explain this earth standing in the sockets, hanging in the air like this, turning perfectly, and so perfectly timed, till the astronomers can tell the very minute the eclipse will come in the moon, between the moon and sun twenty and thirty years ahead of time?
There's not a piece of machinery ever invented that can move that, not move that perfect. Your watch won't do it. There's no watch can keep perfect time, not for any space of time. It'll lose tick or two, or gain a tick or two. There--there's nothing man can do like that. But God is perfect. He's right on time.
This meeting is not providential. It is God's provided way for us. It's just in the right season, the right time. You never come here this afternoon just by chance. It was God that brought you here. Everything is moving just right. Now, whether you want to listen, whether you want to believe, that'll be up to you. But at the judgment, then God will say, "You remember?" Uh-huh. Then what can you say?

L-51 Now, notice. And I was attracted... This sounds a whole lot like a little joke, but it's not a joke. And I was running around the tree and all at once a little pine squirrel... I don't know whether you have them up here or not. He--he's the fussiest little thing that's in the woods. He just... Well, it's just like they say the Irishman's owl, all fuss and feathers and no owl.
So he--he was just--he just barks and carries on. Mr. Jefferies used to tell me... I said, "What makes them holler?"
He said, "He is cursing you."
I said, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, such language." And as he--he was carrying on, just jumping up-and-down. And I thought, "What you so excited about, little fellow?" I said, "Did I excite you, because I was running around the tree? Watch this." And around and around I went again.
And he was just setting there, just chattering away up on a--a stump where a tree had blown down. And I said, "Did you know I'm worshipping the very God that created you?" Now, I said...

L-52 I run around a couple of times more, and I noticed the little fellow, I thought I had excited him, but he had his little eye bugged out on his cheek, and he was looking down in that blow down. And I thought, "Well, what's down there?" And the storm had forced a big eagle down. And that's what he was barking at. It wasn't at me; it was that eagle.
So I looked and this big eagle jumped up. In Colorado we have the brown eagle--great big beautiful bird. And I love eagles, because God likens His children, His heritage, unto eagles. And God, Himself, calls Himself an eagle. He is Jehovah Eagle--papa eagle. We're His little eaglets.
A eagle can fly higher than any other bird there is. If a hawk would try to follow him, he'd disintegrate in the air. So you try to impersonate Christianity, you just burst yourself open. That's all. Don't do you no good. Be a eagle. Be borned-again, nature changed; then you can walk up Jacob's ladder. Then you can climb to the highest spots to where all things are possible to them that believe. But you got to be an eagle, a believer. Don't try...


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