Buy The Truth

 
Evening Devotion

DECEMBER 24

 

Buy the truth, and sell it not;

Proverbs 23:23

 
You need the truth.
 
It is necessary to enlighten the mind, sanctify the heart, cheer the soul, and regulate the life.
 
All goodness flows from truth, and all evil from error.
 
Therefore buy the truth.
 
It is to be had, but it must be bought.
 
It will cost you something if you obtain it.
 
But you cannot buy it too dear.
 
It has fetched a very high price, some have given their liberty, all their comforts, and their lives for it.
 
It is in God’s book, as in a mine.
 
It is in Christ’s person, as its centre and home.
 
Labour in the mine.
 
Study Christ.
 
Be diligent, laborious, and determined to have the truth if possible.
 
Pray.
 
Strive.
 
Honour the Holy Spirit, who alone can out you in possession in it.
 
It is his office to teach the truth, he leads into it.
 
Be degrees.
 
By exercise.
 
By a variety of means.
 
Having bought the truth, never sell it.
 
No one can bid no substitute for it.
 
You will be sure to need it, to direct you in perplexity—to comfort you in sickness—to cheer you in sorrow—and to support you in death.
 
Pleasure may bid for it.
 
Honour may bid for it.
 
Wealth may bid for it.
 
But sell it not.
 
Study it—profess it—and enjoy it.
 

O thou the living way,

The truth, the life, bestow

That holy light whose vital ray

Shall lead, all truth to know,

 
James Smith