What Is Truth? # 2

What Is Truth? # 2

Another thought has often come home to me. If Holy Scripture is not the fruit of Divine wisdom, it is not a message to us from above - then whence comes this wonderful Book? What account can we give of it? 

Can it come from man's great enemy, the devil? Is not every page of it for the overthrow of his kingdom?

Could it have been written by wicked men? Was there ever a wicked man in the world that did not hate the Bible, and either wish that it were false or endeavor to prove it so?

Could it have been written by good men out of their own hearts? But would good men have taken God's name in vain? And does not every part of it claim to be a revelation from God? Do we not find the words "Thus says the Lord!" continually occurring? And can we imagine godly men thus to have forged the name of Jehovah?

Could it have been written by fanatics and enthusiasts? Then where would have been the calm, quiet, and devout tone that pervades it? Where would have been the depth of wisdom which exercises to this day the earnest study of men of the greatest intellect?

Amidst the tokens of God's power and the manifestations of His grace, how often do you meet with human infirmity, errors, sins, strifes, marring "the beauty of holiness" in the Church, and showing that at all times "the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked?"

We find it the same in all parts of the sacred volume. There is no display, no adornment, no hiding a painful side, or making much of  one that is pleasing. There is the majesty of truth and reality - nothing else. 

To sum up all, I would say to the reader, "Hold fast your title-deeds!" Don't be persuaded by those who would rob you of your inheritance of Christian truth. Don't admit for a moment that Holy Scripture is not to be believed.

The Word is faithful. It never has failed, and it never will.

This generation will soon pass away. Its mighty men, and its rich men, and its wise men will follow their fathers to the grave. The theories and opinions of this day will give place to others. But there is a Rock and abides. "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away, but the Word of the Lord endures forever!" (1 Peter 1:24-25).

O Word of God incarnate,
O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth unchanged, unchanging,
O Light of our dark sky!

We praise You for the radiance
That from the hallowed page,
A lantern to our footsteps,
Shines on from age to age.

~George Everard~

(The End)