Episode 253: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 219

Episode Summary:

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. (Psalm 63:1-4)

45 That’s the kind of life David said, “That Thy loving kindness is better to me than life. Oh, my heart thirsts after Thee, O Lord. I long to see You in this dry, thirsty land, like I have seen You in Your sanctuary.”

[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]… Climb a high tower, or jump off into a river, or flatten yourself on the street, or take carbolic acid, to end that kind of life. That’s not what David is speaking of. That kind of life has a end, and the end is disastrous. But that kind of life has no good end to it. But then, I just want to ask the audience this question, for a moment: “Then what makes a person do that?”

Now, you take, I went to a party one time, where… It wasn’t a party; it’s where that we had sold lamps, campaign. And they give a little speech. And we went over there to find out at Louisville, Kentucky, and the service company that I worked for, I’d sold more lamps than—than the whole company had, any of the rest of them. So they give a little time over there; we had a little dinner. And then after it was all over, they moved back and—and the—and they had some dancing. Some girls come out to dance. When they did that, my boss said to me, said, “Billy, go stand back there at the door; we going to have a little clean fun.”

I said, “What kind of clean fun?”

Said, “Would you mind stand at the door?” Said, “I know you don’t believe in dancing, but these people are going to dance.”

“Well,” I said, “can’t I wait outside?”

Said, “Suit yourself.”

I said, “All right.” And it’s when I started back, I—little old girl run out like that, and run out on the floor begin to doing the—kind of crazy looking acts, and—and going on, her little old skirt flying around. I thought, “That’s some mother’s girl.” I stood there at the door just a minute and looked out. I thought, “Oh, God. Really a pretty little girl. Isn’t it a shame, make some man a idol, some good preacher, maybe, a—a consolation, or some good workman to come in at nighttime to a little castle, where they’d have the little babies they could pick up, and play, and freely have life right. That’s… Maybe her mother might have been a Christian.”

46 And she started running around, grabbing each man. And she run back to me. And said, “You want to dance?”

I said, “Yes ma’am. I sure do.”

And she said, “Come on.”

Started out in the floor, I said, “Just a minute.” And I held her; she was too little to get away from me. I held by her hand, I said, “There’s one thing that I always make a practice of.” I said, “Before I always do anything, I always pray. Will you pray with me? Bow down.” I held her hand. She couldn’t help it. We broke that thing up there in a few minutes. Sure.

The old jazz band stopped, and they picked up their instruments and left. I said, “Mr. Hanson, you could fire me if you want to.”

He said, “No, Billy, you done the right thing.”

That’s it. That ain’t life. It’s two different conceptions of what life is. One has suicide; the other one has rapture. Oh, rapture Divine. Let that life fall on me. But what makes a person do that? There’s some reason. Why?

60-0304 – “Thirsting For Life”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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