Oswald Chambers on Knowing the Bible

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW106523361 BCX4"> <p><span data-contrast="none">In November 1917, Scottish Bible teacher and evangelist</span> <a href= "https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/innertravelers/oswald-chambers.html"> <span data-contrast="none">Oswald Chambers</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">died while serving as chaplain to British troops in Egypt. Ten years after his death,</span> <a href= "https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1993/october-4/my-search-for-oswald-chambers.html"> <span data-contrast="none">his wife Gertrude</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">compiled her notes of his sermons into one of the most influential devotionals of all time:</span> <a href="https://www.christianbook.com/utmost-for-his-highest-updated-edition/oswald-chambers/9781627078757/pd/078757"> <em><span data-contrast="none">My Utmost for His Highest. </span></em></a><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Chambers revered the Scripture. “God never fits His word to suit me;”</span> <a href= "https://colsoncenter.christianbook.com/not-knowing-whither-abrahams-digital-original/oswald-chambers/9781627074391/pd/80462EB?event=ESRCG"> <span data-contrast="none">he wrote</span></a><span data-contrast= "none">, “He fits me to suit His word.”  But he also understood the kind of book the Bible was. Not something only to be looked at, but to be looked through.</span> <a href= "https://ourdailybreadpublishing.org/0500.html"><span data-contrast="none"> He once responded to a friend</span></a><span data-contrast= "none"> who said he</span> <em><span data-contrast= "none">only</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">read the Bible that,</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">"When people refer to a man as 'a man of the book,' meaning the Bible, he is generally found to be a man of multitudinous books, which simply isolates the one Book