February 27

The price of truth

“If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God” (Prov. 2:3-5).

Getting saved is not like taking a holiday outing. The men and women who are full of the truth—who are walking embodiments of the truth—have not become so without effort. They have digged for truth; they have loved it; they have longed for it more than for their necessary food; they have sacrificed all for it. When they have fallen they have risen again, and when defeated they have not yielded to discouragement, but with more care and watchfulness, and greater earnestness, they have renewed their efforts for it.


They have counted not their lives dear unto themselves that they might know the truth. Wealth, ease, a name among men, reputation, pleasure, everything the world holds, has been counted as dung and dross in their pursuit of truth, and just at that point where truth took precedence over all creation they found it—the truth that saves the soul, that satisfies the heart, that answers the questions of life, that brings fellowship with God, and joy unutterable, and perfect peace.
—Samuel Logan Brengle.

“Buy the truth, and sell it not” (Prov. 23:23).

Great truths are dearly bought. The common truth,
Such as men give and take from day to day,
Comes in the common walk of easy life,
Blown by the careless wind across our way.

Great truths are greatly won, not found by chance,
Nor wafted on the breath of summer dream;
But grasped in the great struggle of the soul,
Hard buffeting with adverse wind and stream.
—Horatius Bonar.

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