In the last chapter we talked about the door of faith which opens upon the whole expanding Christian experience. In this chapter we want to look at the obedience to God in our inner nature and lifestyle that comes from and grows out of the experience of faith.

The problem of disobedience began with the dawn of time and has been repeated in every generation. It is known to me in my own acts of rebellion against God. The original sin is probably my own natural bent to put myself at the center of the universe and to push God to one side. Until I have faced up to this, have pushed my own will to one side and have let God be at the center of his own universe and my own universe, I have not had my basic sickness healed.

C. S. Lewis puts it, "To walk out of God’s will is to walk into nowhere." …