Praise His Ways

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. Nahum:2:4

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7-8

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he hath not another to help him up. Ecclesiastes:4:9-10

And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived- Luke:21:8-; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2nd Timothy:4:4

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah:29:13 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John:8:32

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John:15:5

One of my early songs written while Nixon was still president. A turbulent time that made the apocalypse seem like it would be an improvement.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew:5:6

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4

A sort of post traumatic stress disorder song that I wrote as a young man after returning from a discouraging and bewildering experience in the military.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes:3:1

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour. 1st Peter:5:8

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea:4:6a So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Psalms:73:22

Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me. John:14:6

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. Job:24:8 Be thou my strong shelter, where I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. Psalms:71:3

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these (people) should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. Luke:19:40

Believing in something invisible requires a flight of faith. Perhaps that's what God is trying to show us with the lowly homing pigeon.