Buy the Truth and Sell It Not
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Every true Christian should understand that the truth costs. If
you don’t think so, make it your own, value it, defend it, stand
for it, and see if it doesn’t cost. Before you are through it may
cost you far more than you had thought — hours of ease and
pleasure, friends and money. Yes, the truth costs. Salvation is
gloriously free but the truth costs — that is, if you want it for
yourself. Many who know the truth won’t buy it. They won’t pay
what it costs to say: “This is what I believe. This is my
conviction.” The truth isn’t worth that much to them.
But in Prov. 23:23 God’s Word urges us: “Buy the truth”!
Not, “Buy it if you can get it at a bargain; if the price is not
too great.” No, “Buy the truth”! Buy it at any price. It is
worth far more than anything you can give in exchange for it.
And when you have bought it: “sell it not.” How many, alas,
have bought the truth only to sell out again! For a while they valued
and defended some God-given light from His Word, but presently they
sold it again for something that seemed more valuable. Perhaps it was
peace with others, or position, or popularity or some other temporal
gain. They still gave mental assent to it but it formed no part of
them. It was no longer a conviction.
Such should read again the Spirit’s counsel: “Buy the truth,
and sell it not.” He does not say: “Don’t sell it unless you
can get a very good price for it.” He says: “Sell it not.” Sell
it not at any price. Buy it, no matter what it costs and when it is
yours do not sell it for any price or under any consideration.
It is because the truth is so little valued in this indifferent
age, that many of God’s people have become so spiritually
powerless. They hold opinions instead of convictions, because they
have given the infallible, unchangeable Word of God little place in
their lives. God blesses and uses those who “buy the truth and sell
it not.”
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