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S. D. Gordon. Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Lone Man Who Went Before
A Call to Friendship
Climbing the Hilltops
The Dependent Life
Poor—Except in Spirit
A Father-pleasing Life
The Obedient Life
Sinless by Choice
A Fellow-Feeling
When You Don't Have To
The Long, Rough Road He Trod
The Book's Story
God on a Wooing Errand
The Rough Places
When Your Heart's Tuned to the Music
The Pleading Call To Follow
Hungry for the Human Touch
Called to Go
"Follow Me."
The Deeper Meaning
Getting in Behind
Selling All
What Following Means
1. A Look Ahead
Saltless Salt
The Thing in Us That Wants Things
Outstanding Experiences
At the Loom
2. The Main Road—Experiences of Power And Privilege
The Bethlehem Birth
The Jordan Baptism of Power
Power Is in the Current
Living a Nazareth Life
Live It
The Galilean Ministry
The Father's Image in the Common Crowd
3. The Valleys—experiences of Suffering And Sacrifice
The Never-absent Minor
The Wilderness
"Lead Us Not."
Gethsemane
Calvary
The Underground Road
What Is Sacrifice?
How Much It Cost God
What Obedience Has Meant for Some
Necessity—Luxury
Grafted
4. The Hilltops—Experiences of Gladness and Glory
Valley Music
The Transfiguration Mount
Resurrection Power—A Present Experience
The Ascension Life—Power in Possession
The Coming Glory
Shall We Go?
The Deeper Meaning of Friendship
Following Wholly
The Tuning-Fork for the Best Music
How to Follow
Finger-Posts
The Parable of the Finger-Posts
The Lineage of Service
Not Quite In Is Outside
The Olivet Vision
The Spirit of Obedience
The Heart of Love
Fellow-Followers
God's Problem
A Confession of Faith in Wood and Nails
Befriending God
A Yet Deeper Meaning
Through Fire
The Glory Of The Goal—Face to Face
"With You Always."
Closer Acquaintance
The Final Goal
Footnotes
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S. D. Gordon
Published by Good Press, 2019
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There is an exception. It is both pitiable and laughable. We are enormously rich in spirit, in our imagination, in our thought of ourselves. Blessed are they who are as poor in spirit as they actually are in everything else. They recognize that they are wholly dependent on some One else, and so they live the dependent life, with its blessed closeness of touch with the gracious Provider. In certain institutions are placed those who imagine themselves to be in high social and official rank, and in possessions what they are not, who imagine it to such a degree that it is best that they be kept apart from others. It would seem like an extreme thing to say that these people are spirit-mirrors in which we may partly see ourselves. Yet it would be saying the truth. How laughable, if it were not so overwhelmingly pitiful, must men look to God—without a stitch to their backs except what He has given, without a copper in their pockets except what has been borrowed from His bank, yet strutting up and down the street of life, heads held high in air, as though they owned the universe, and—if it did not sound blasphemous I could add the rest of the fact—and were doing Him a favour by running His world so skilfully! And it grieves one to the heart to note that this seems to be about as true within Church circles as without. The difference between is ever growing smaller to the disappearing point.
It was into such an atmosphere, never intenser than in Palestine and Jerusalem nineteen centuries ago, that the man Christ Jesus came. And He had the moral daring to begin living a dependent life, the true human life, looking up gratefully to the Father's hand for everything. Was it any wonder His presence caused such a disturbance in the moral atmosphere of the world! He insisted, with the strange insistence of gentleness, on living such a life, through all the extremes that the hating world-spirit could contrive against Him. Out of such a life comes His "Follow Me." And in this He is simply calling us back to the original human life as planned by God.
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