THE SENSES OF A CANARY BRAIN

 

We can study with our reasoning,

With emotion feel led.

It’s absolutely nothing,

If it’s not what God has said.

That our conscience isn’t bothered,

Doesn’t mean a thing.

Search it in the Word,

Then line up with what you’ve seen.

So much for all your memories,

Coincidence can occur.

And the way that you perceived it,

May not be very sure.

How affection weakens us,

Makes excuse for those we love,

Allows for you to compromise,

When push comes down to shove.

Humanities achievement,

At it’s very best,

Is really quite embarrassing,

When it’s finally put to test.

All the effort we put in,

Isn’t any gain,

Since all we have to work it out,

Is a small canary brain.

...what if there is a cage full of canaries....And one little canary bird flies up in the cage and says, "Gentlemen, I want to tell you all something. I happen to be just a little superior to you all. You see, I'm a canary that knows all about the human being. Oh, I can explain it all. I seen the lady walk through the house; I've seen the children play. I know all about it. Now, you all listen to me."
And about the time he's pouting off his little brain, a Princeton University, college man steps up with a polishedness of grammar. And he begins to carry a conversation with that little canary bird using the highest grammar that he can, and speaking to this little canary bird. I'd imagine the little fellow'd turn his head sideways; he would listen from one side to another. But he don't know a thing he's talking about. Yet, he can hear him, Yet, he can see him, but what does his knowledge amount to? Nothing. Because he don't know what the man's talking about. Why? He's got a canary brain. He hasn't got a human brain. He just understands as canaries understand.
And that's the way the human is. I don't care how intellectual you are, we still got canary brains, because we're only human beings. God's knowed by the Spirit and by the revelation by the Holy Ghost. We'll never be able to understand Him through intellectuals. You might ... have intellectual meetings, and psychology, as much as you want to, and people will never know God. They can't.
You can explain, and say the people that cry and turn the other cheek are just the old fashion. But that's the man that's reflecting Christ in his life, a man who is humble. A man who will walk with God will act like Jesus.
 But, you see, the little bird couldn't understand. Yet, he thought he could. Because he's not made that way; his intellectual will not compare with the intellectual of this smart student.
And neither will our intellectuals ever match God. How can our little ... the finite mind of us ever compare with the infinite mind of God? That infinite mind of God is so far beyond human intellectuals until it would never be.
The only way that bird will ever know what the man's talking about is by yielding himself, and accepting it, and doing whatever he thinks that the man wants him to do.
William Branham, Images of Christ 59-05-25