By Peter Kennedy
“The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth--and not I only, but also all who know the truth-- because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever” – 2 John 1:1-2
William Macready was the finest actor of his day. The poet Alfred Tennyson dedicated the following verse to him upon Macready’s retirement:
“We thank thee with one voice, and from the heart.”
An eminent preacher once asked Macready: “I wish you would explain to me something.”
“Well, what is it? I don’t know that I can explain anything to a preacher.”
“What is the difference between you and me? You are appearing before crowds night after night with fiction, and the crowds come wherever you go. I am preaching the essential and unchangeable truth, and I am not getting any crowd at all.”
Macready replied: “This is quite simple. I can tell you the difference between us. I present my fiction as though it were truth; you present your truth as though it were fiction.”
The Lord has given us the truth in His Word. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is truth and seek to follow Him in all that you do.
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.'' – Leo Tolstoy
God’s Word: “Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another.” – Leviticus 19:11
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