Yes, Lord. With attestations and outward forms of affection and loyalty, I would surrender this body You have doubly bought back to sin. I kiss You before my fellow Christians, yet leave You to mockery and shaming in the presence of Your enemies. With a kiss, I too often betray You for the same lips that proffer love to You are the same that speak the evil that draws blood from Your back.
How cheaply do we sell our Savior? How little do we value the preciousness of His blood split to buy us back from all our impurities? And we who are saved have a thousand reasons more than Judas to remain faithful to our Jesus because we understand to some degree just how beautiful He is and how much He has done for us. But sometimes I wonder how my own heart is so easily enticed by the silvery glint of sin offered me by the devil if I will only betray my Savior's wishes for me.
Why is it so easy to put on a front, to skulk with sin and come shortly after and kiss the altar of our God in pretended worship? Who are we fooling? Jesus knew what darkness lay in Judas's heart. Sadly, I think the show we put on is more for other Christians than it is even for our God. We don't want others to see what Judases we really are inwardly.
But maybe if we all were frank with each other about our failures, we'd find allies in our war against secret sins. And perhaps, rather than kiss the Son with falsehood in our hearts, we might honor Him with purified lips, having had our brothers and sisters in the faith put the coal of God's gospel to our unclean, duplicitous mouths (Isaiah 6:5-7). Then might we better serve as His messengers for the world will see our affection for Jesus is real and not some hypocritical show put on by yet another Judas.
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