Words of Truth

Peter points to the same feature of God's Word. He was about to depart and had this intimation from the Lord that he was soon to come to the end of his time on earth. In view of his absence as an apostle, he reminded them to keep in remembrance the words of truth they had heard (2 Peter 1). The Word of God is always to be the distinguishing mark, and the anchor of hope for the believer in God.
I remember that the famous Bishop Horsley some years ago made some good remarks about this very thing. He had a strong sense of the ruin of Christendom that was at hand. He ventured to think that when the things God wrought among His people came completely into the hands of men without God's fear, God would awaken in the hearts of His people such a sense of the value of His Word that it would bring them to a degree of intelligence unknown in the previous state of the Church.
This conviction is a remarkable statement of what, I believe, has always been true in the dealings of God. It was so in the days of our Lord. Destruction was hanging over Jerusalem then, and all the Annas and Simeons and those who looked for redemption and the destruction of Jerusalem were those persons whom Malachi prepares us for in the last words of his book. "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another," and the Lord holds them in special remembrance. I have no doubt that in like manner the Lord does and will do for those who value His Word until judgment falls upon Christendom.