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Morning and Evening

March 25, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?" — Luke 22:48 · KJV

The kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for if it can, it will betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. Whenever a man is about to stab religion, he usually professes great reverence for it. Let me beware of the smooth-faced hypocrisy that is armor-bearer to heresy and unbelief. Knowing the deceitfulness of unrighteousness, let me be wise as a serpent to detect and avoid the designs of the enemy. The young man void of understanding was led astray by the kiss of the strange woman; may my soul be so graciously taught all this day that "the much fair speech" of the world may have no effect on me. Holy Spirit, let me not, a poor frail son of man, be betrayed with a kiss! But what if I should be guilty of the same accursed sin as Judas, that son of perdition? I have been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus; I am a member of His visible Church; I sit at the communion table — all these are so many kisses of my lips. Am I sincere in them? If not, I am a base traitor. Do I live in the world as carelessly as others, and yet profess to be a follower of Jesus? Then I expose religion to ridicule, and lead men to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called. Surely if I act so inconsistently, I am a Judas, and it were better for me that I had never been born. Dare I hope that I am clear in this matter? Then, O Lord, keep me so. O Lord, make me sincere and true; preserve me from every false way; never let me betray my Savior. I do love You, Jesus, and though I often grieve You, yet I would abide faithful even to death. O God, forbid that I should be a high-soaring professor, and then fall at last into the lake of fire because I betrayed my Master with a kiss.