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    As He Walked
    As He Walked
    As He Walked
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    As He Walked

    By Oswald Chambers

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    Experience is not what a man thinks through, but what he lives through. The Bible is like life and deals with facts, not with principles, and life is not logical. Logic is simply a method of working the facts we know; but if we push the logical method to the facts we do not know and try to make God logical and other people logical, we shall find that the experience of life brings us to other conclusions. God sees that we are put to the test in the whole of life. We have to beware of selecting the portions of life only where we imagine we can live as saints and of cutting off any part of life because of the difficulty of being a Christian there. Christian experience means that we go to the whole of life open-eyed, wearing no doctrinal or denominational “blinkers” which shut off whole areas of unwelcome fact. Our faith has to be applied in every domain of our lives.


    Our Lord’s teaching is so simple that the natural mind pays no attention to it, it is only moral perplexity that heeds. For instance, Our Lord said: “Ask, and it shall be given you.” These words have no meaning for us if we are wearing any kind of ecclesiastical “blinkers,” and are refusing to see what we do not wish to see. “I can live beautifully in my own little religious bandbox.” That is not Christian experience. We have to face the whole of life as it is, and to face it fearlessly.


     The difficulty of Christian experience is never in the initial stages. Experience is a gateway, not an end.


    There are definite stages of conscious experience, but never pin your faith to any experience; look to the Lord Who gave you the experience. Be ruthless with yourself if you are given to talking about the experiences you have had. Your experiences are not worth anything unless they keep you at the Source, viz., Jesus Christ. It is tremendously strengthening to meet a mature saint, a man or woman with a full-orbed experience, whose faith is built in strong emphatic confidence in the One from Whom their experience springs.


    The next best thing to do is to ask, if you have not received; to seek, if you have not found; to knock, if the door is not opened to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateMar 8, 2022
    As He Walked
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    Oswald Chambers

    Oswald Chambers (1874--1917) was a Bible teacher, conference leader, and YMCA chaplain. After his death, his widow compiled his writings in a number of popular daily devotional books, including My Utmost for His Highest, an enduring classic of the Christian faith that continues to inspire men and women the world over.

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      As He Walked - Oswald Chambers

      As He Walked

      Talks on Christian Experience

      Oswald Chambers

      London

      Simpkin Marshall

      1930

      Original copyright Simpkin Marshall, London, 1930.

      This edition copyright CrossReach Publications, Ireland, 2017.

      The main body of this work is in the public domain except where any editing, formatting and/or modernization of the language has been done. All other rights are reserved, including the right to reproduce this edition or portions of it in any form whatsoever without prior written consent from the Publisher. All covers are uniquely produced and owned by the Publisher.

      Available in paper and electronic editions. A few select titles are also being published as audiobooks. Please go online for more great works available through CrossReach Publications. If you enjoyed this edition and think others might too, then consider helping us out by leaving a review online, mentioning us by name.

      Contents

      The Next Best Thing to Do

      Not a Bit of It!

      Getting There

      Get a Move On!

      You Need Not Sin

      What Next?

      Pull Yourself Together

      Don’t Slack Off

      Practising Godliness

      Source

      Lectures given at the Bible Training College, London, from April 30 through July 9, 1914.

      Publication History

      •      As articles: Spiritual Life magazine, from September 1929 through March 1930.

      •      As a booklet: 1930.

      The Next Best Thing to Do

      Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7

      Experience is not what a man thinks through, but what he lives through. The Bible is like life and deals with facts, not with principles, and life is not logical. Logic is simply a method of working the facts we know; but if we push the logical method to the facts we do not know and try to make God logical and other people logical, we shall find that the experience of life brings us to other conclusions. God sees that we are put to the test in the whole of life. We have to beware of selecting the portions of life only where we imagine we can live as saints and of cutting off any part of life because of the difficulty of being a Christian there. Christian experience means that we go to the whole of life open-eyed, wearing no doctrinal or denominational blinkers which shut off whole areas of unwelcome fact. Our faith has to be applied in every domain of our lives.

      Our Lord’s teaching is so simple that the natural mind pays no attention to it, it is only moral perplexity that heeds. For instance, Our Lord said: Ask, and it shall be given you. These words have no meaning for us if we are wearing any kind of ecclesiastical blinkers, and are refusing to see what we do not wish to see. I can live beautifully in my own little religious bandbox. That is not Christian experience. We have to face the whole of life as it is, and to face it fearlessly.

      The difficulty of Christian experience is never in the initial stages. Experience is a gateway, not an end.

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