Spiritual Enlightenment Through Walking With God

 R. A. Torrey was a city missionary, Bible School superintendent and dean, pastor, evangelistic campaigner, Bible Conference organizer, and author of forty books in his lifetime.  The following wise words are from his book The Voice of God in the Present Hour:

"Communion with God rather than scholarship opens to us the mind and thought of God.  There is no hint that Enoch was a man of science or letters.  I am very sure he was not a higher critic, and yet this plain man by walking with God and talking with God got such an insight into the purposes of God as no other man of his time had.  In the Epistle of Jude, the 14th and 15th verses, we learn that even in that far-away day, a thousand years before the flood, Enoch got hold of the great truth of the second coming of Christ.  

"So today some old washerwoman, or some humble cobbler, who walks with God may know more of the mind of God than many an eminent college professor, or even a professor in a theological seminary.

"The important question concerning points in dispute in religion and spiritual life is not, what do the scholars say, but what do the men and women who walk with God say.

"If one is considering going to someone for spiritual instruction, the first question is not how much of a scholar he is, not how much does he know of Latin and Hebrew and Greek and Syriac and philosophy and psychology, but does he walk with God?  This is the great condition of spiritual insight, wisdom, and understanding."