Malcolm Muggeridge “The Green Stick: A Chronicle of Wasted Years” - The Daily Voice

Quotation on truth's casualty from Malcolm Muggeridge:

"Yet even so, truth is very beautiful; more so, as I consider, than justice - today’s pursuit – which easily puts on a false face. In the nearly seven decades I have lived through, the world has overflowed with bloodshed and explosions whose dust has never had time to settle before others have erupted; all in purportedly just causes. The quest for justice continues, and the weapons and the hatred pile up; but truth was an early casualty. The lies on which our wars have been fought and our peace treaties concluded. The lies of revolution and counter-revolution! The lies of advertising, of news, of salesmanship, of politics. The lies of the priests in the pulpit, the professor at his podium, the journalist at his typewriter! The lie stuck like a fishbone in the throat of the microphone, the hand-held lies of the prowling cameraman.

"Ignazio Salone told me once how, when he was a member of the old Comintern (in Moscow during the USSR), some stratagem was under discussion, and a delegate, a newcomer who had never attended before, made the extraordinary observation that if such and such a statement were to be put out, it would not be true. There was a moment of dazed silence, and then everyone began to laugh. They laughed and laughed until tears ran down their cheeks and the Kremlin walls seemed to shake. The same laughter echoes in every council chamber and cabinet room, wherever two or more are gathered together to exercise authority. It is truth that has died, not God."[1]

Dennis Edwards

Truth has indeed suffered an attempted assassination, but the announcement of her death was premature. Truth is alive and well to those who seek for it. Truth, by definition, means objective truth, not today's "true for you, but not for me." Truth is not relative. Truth is true whether or not you and I believe it, whether or not anyone believes it.  As a young college student I decided in my freshman year to make "truth" my educational goal, so I sought for truth. I studied history, religion, politics, philosophy, psychology, literature, music, art; in search of truth. From my studies and my life experiences, I came to the conclusion that the greatest truth was love. But what, or whom, or where was the source of real sacrificial love? What, or whom, or where was the source of the power of love?

My search for truth led me to the arms of Jesus who said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to God the Father, but by me."[John 14:6] To find out who Jesus was, I did not go off to seminary college or go down to the local church. Instead, I started reading the New Testament and tried to implement what I was reading in my own life. When I read, "Go sell all that thou has and give to the poor, and come and follow Me,"[Matthew 19:21] that's what I did. For many years I refused to read anything but God's Word. I memorized Scriptures to help me remember what God had said on a given subject.

Jesus Himself said, "If you continue in my Word, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."[John 8:31-32] I have tried to "continue in His word" by daily reading from the Bible and trying to apply it to my life. In the psalms we read, "Thou through Thy commandments has made me wiser than my enemies: for Thy words are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Thy testimonies are my meditations. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Thy precepts."[Psalms 119:98-100] I have tried to followed the counsel of God and made His Word my mediation. His Word has been a  lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path [Psalms 119:105], a light that shiners clearer and clearer every day.[Proverbs 4:18]

Please find yourself a New Testament if you can and sit down and read it without distraction. The Apostle Peter said that greater than his own personal experiences with Jesus was the testimony that God speaks through His written Word. Please read it until that day star arises in your heart and you understand. If you were lost on a dark and dreary night and you saw a distant light, ever so faint, you would go towards it.[2 Peter 1:19] That light is God's Word. Go to it and find the treasure hidden therein. "For you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."[ John 8:32] And whom the Son shall make free, shall be free indeed.[John 8:36]

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Notes
[1] https://www.rzim.org/read/just-thinking-magazine/the-inextinguishable-light

Originally published June 7, 2015.