"We seek the truth." This was the motto written upon a bulletin board at a Community Hall. It had been recently opened to the use of infidel speakers. Could any sentence have been more fitly chosen to their own condemnation? They profess to teach, and to instruct the people. What about? What do they teach? Certainly not the truth, for they declare they do not have it. We do not seek for that which we possess; we may wish and strive to understand, and better enter that we have. If I have something I have wanted, my search for it is ended. Infidelity professes to seek the truth, all the time rejecting it; and it would fain take the truth away from those who possess it. Infidelity attempts to take away, but cannot give the truth. A schoolmaster cannot teach that of which he is himself ignorant.
But can it be said that any one has the Truth? Yes, emphatically yes! God says so. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." John 1:1717For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (John 1:17).
Here plainly stated is the fact that truth is come and has been manifested—not in a code of laws, but in a living, loving Person—One who could say, "I am the Truth."
Infidelity is nothing new. He who was the Truth was here. He said to Pilate, who gave Him up into the hands of His enemies: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."
The skeptic cry was then, as now: "What is truth?" The answer is still: "Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice."
Have you heard the voice of Christ? Do you know Him? Do you with your heart believe on Him? If so, you have the Truth. Many things you may want to know about Him, the glories of His Person, the wonders of His work; but if you know Him as the Christ, the Son of God, and receive Him as. your Savior, you have the Truth.
Man, by searching, tries to find out God. He will never succeed. God revealed Himself in Christ, else we never could have found Him. Blessed be His name, He sent His only begotten Son to declare Him, to unfold all His heart, and to bring back to Himself poor guilty man.
In Christ we find the Truth. In the light of His Presence we are revealed in all our sin and guilt. And oh blessed truth, we find in Him the One who can meet the deepest need of a sinful heart.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Grace is what I need—not grace at the expense of truth; but He, the expression of the loving grace of a giving God, came to unveil His Father's heart to lost man. He came to suffer in death, that by that death He might make a righteous channel for the outflow of God's heart towards His sinful creature.
Oh, do you really want to know what truth is? Are you a "seeker after truth"? Go not to the learned of this world. Ask not science for an answer. "The world by wisdom knew not God." Truth was here, in the Person of Christ. Man cast Him out. Now Christ, "the Truth," is in heaven. "There are three that bear witness in earth (to the truth), the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one... This is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son." 1 John 5:8, 98And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. (1 John 5:8‑9).
Do you believe on the Son of God? May you from your heart say, "Lord, I believe." Receive Him into your heart and then you shall have the truth. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:3232And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32).