Truth will not die in darkness

This anonymous and enlightening story I read somewhere a long time ago. I encourage you to read between the lines and allow it to be a blessing to your spirit. One day, a man named TRUTH and his twin brother named LIE stood by a river just outside of town. LIE challenged TRUTH to a race, claiming he could swim across the river faster than his brother, TRUTH.

LIE drafted and laid out the rules for the challenge. He wanted to both remove all their clothes and dive into the freezing cold water and swim to the other side and back. TRUTH jumped in; LIE did not. As TRUTH swam across the river, LIE put on TRUTH’s clothes and walked back into town dressed as TRUTH and paraded around town pretending to be his brother, TRUTH. TRUTH made it back to shore, but his clothes were gone, and he was left naked with only LIE’s clothes to wear.

Refusing to dress himself as LIE, TRUTH walked back to town naked. People stared and glared as naked TRUTH walked through town. He tried to explain what happened and that he was in fact TRUTH, but because he was naked and uncomfortable to look at, people mocked and shunned him, refusing to believe he was really TRUTH. The people in town chose to believe LIE because he was dressed appropriately and easier to look at. From that day until this, people have come to believe a lie rather than believe a naked truth.

Poor TRUTH returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. Since then, the LIE travels around the world, dressed as the TRUTH, satisfying the needs of society, because the world, in any case, harbours no wish at all to meet the naked TRUTH. This is exactly the world we live in today. LIE, who is the thief, is crowned the Chief. And TRUTH, who is the REAL DEAL, is in servitude. What a world.

In this dispensation, TRUTH is unpopular. In governments, in faith places, and in many institutions, LIES have an upper hand upending what TRUTH has built. Check out men and women vested with political, business, and spiritual power and authority; they seem to feel more comfortable in the loving embrace of LIES. Will truth die in darkness? No! Light will penetrate the fabric of darkness, and darkness will not comprehend it because TRUTH is immortal and lives forever. You can suppress it but not eternally; you can deny it but can’t avoid it. You can cage TRUTH if you want to, but you cannot break it even if you caged it.

Don’t think you are super-dominant when you suppress the TRUTH; don’t sleep with both eyes closed when you repress it. Truth does not cry for justice, and it does not beg for help. When TRUTH breaks out, it signals the daybreak; when the day breaks with TRUTH, it breaks the back of its suppressor. TRUTH is an uninvited guest at the funeral of those who attempt its murder. A man who strives to kill it will die trying. Truth, when pressed down, bounces back big. The bounce-back ability of TRUTH is what attracts the wise to it. Its invincibility is what makes great men stand in awe of the God of TRUTH. If you are a specialist in UNTRUTH, understand this TRUTH. TRUTH is irrepressible and unsurpassable. If you ever thought that you had succeeded in holding the TRUTH hostage, you deceive yourself. When beleaguered and besieged, and at the appropriate time and season, it will jump out of the cage and TRUTHFULLY defend itself. This is nothing but the truth.

God formed the entire world on TRUTH, but men He created to live therein run it on the fast track of anything but the truth.

The sweetest and most romantic bedmate of a person going somewhere in life is TRUTH and telling it like it is. Mean men hate the TRUTH. Vile viragos despise it. But TRUTH conceived in the uterus of time ultimately stays alive. TRUTH looms large over falsity and falsehood. All false prophets and their myrmidons professing UNTRUTH will drop off the scene like dead fleas when TRUTH reveals itself. It may be lying temporarily in the Intensive Care Unit, but no man born of a woman can pull the plug on TRUTH. The whole world was formed by TRUTH. This is a proven TRUTH, and it is nothing but the TRUTH.

Life spins on an existential axis called TRUTH. It is the only compass that paves a pellucid path toward a distinctly specific direction. The navigational system that charts the right course for man to his destination is powered by TRUTH. Abhorring the TRUTH is abhorring a life with good fruits. A man who runs from TRUTH will run forever like cursed, vagabond, itinerant Esau. A nation that detests the truth will also despise discussions and dialogues aimed at shedding a light on the darkness of lies.

In many places around the world, TRUTH is unbending, unbent, self-defending, widely defended, sacred, and constant. But in our land, it is not only coloured and doctored; it is easily mangled and freely maligned. Even in many holy places and pillars of truth, truth is not present. With some men the society assumes are personalities of truth, lies live in and with them. How will a nation grow when lies have overgrown? How do we experience development, peace, and progress where TRUTH is made to feel no longer at ease?

This is my admonition this week. Men with power should take heed, and vile viragos in authority should be careful. One day, the power that you latch onto using to deceive and lie to the people will snap and break. The authority you lean on will lose its prowess. And at the end, and in finality, judgements will roll like many waters and swallow up your lies and deceptions. Then your chicaneries in manipulations, hurt, and harm of the people in your charge will catch up with you because you think truth will be swallowed up in darkness. Will truth die in darkness? No! Light will penetrate the fabric of darkness, and darkness will not comprehend it because TRUTH is immortal and lives forever. If you run from truth, how far can you run? The more you run from that which is called the TRUTH, the faster it catches up with you, and I tell you the TRUTH.

If only we are determined to embrace the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH; if wholly we speak the TRUTH in all we have to do, this world we all live in will be a better place, and this life we all live will offer a sweeter taste. If you are a woman of TRUTH, then you are a strong pillar. If you are a man of TRUTH, then you are a strong tower. Live the truth and speak the TRUTH, my friend, even when it hurts. Be a man of TRUTH. I hope I’ve made my point. This is the truth I tell today. I hope you are all ears. When and where all else fails, there is nothing that stands strong but the truth. This is nothing but the truth. And TRUTH will never die in darkness.