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Treasures of Truth Revealed, April 8
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6
.
All who receive the gospel message into the heart will long to proclaim it. The
heaven-born love of Christ must find expression. Those who have put on Christ will
relate their experience, tracing step by step the leadings of the Holy Spirit—their
hungering and thirsting for the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ whom He has
sent, the results of their searching of the Scriptures, their prayers, their soul agony,
and the words of Christ to them, “Thy sins be forgiven thee.” It is unnatural for any
to keep these things secret, and those who are filled with the love of Christ will not
do so.
In proportion as the Lord has made them the depositaries of sacred truth will be
their desire that others shall receive the same blessing. And as they make known
the rich treasures of God’s grace, more and still more of the grace of Christ will
be imparted to them. They will have the heart of a little child in its simplicity and
unreserved obedience. Their souls will pant after holiness, and more and more of
the treasures of truth and grace will be revealed to them to be given to the world.
The great storehouse of truth is the Word of God—the written Word, the book of
nature, and the book of experience in God’s dealing with human life. Here are the
treasures from which Christ’s workers are to draw. In the search after truth they are
to depend upon God, not upon human intelligences, the great men whose wisdom is
foolishness with God. Through His own appointed channels the Lord will impart a
knowledge of Himself to every seeker.
If the follower of Christ will believe His Word and practice it, there is no science
in the natural world that he will not be able to grasp and appreciate. There is nothing
but that will furnish him means for imparting the truth to others. Natural science
is a treasure house of knowledge from which every student in the school of Christ
may draw. As we contemplate the beauty of nature, as we study its lessons in the
cultivation of the soil, in the growth of the trees, in all the wonders of earth and
sea and sky, there will come to us a new perception of truth. And the mysteries
connected with God’s dealings with men, the depths of His wisdom and judgment
as seen in human life—these are found to be a storehouse rich in treasure.
But it is in the written Word that a knowledge of God is most clearly revealed to
fallen man. This is the treasure house of the unsearchable riches of Christ.... The
truths of redemption are capable of constant development and expansion. Though
old, they are ever new, constantly revealing to the seeker for truth a greater glory
and a mightier power (
Christ’s Object Lessons, 125-127
).
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