Reflection - Luke 22:48
Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening today I almost skipped, not that I’m diligent to sit down every day anyways, but because I’m struggling with stress and work and I was hoping for some divine moment where the meditation of the day would just speak directly to my worries. But by God’s grace, I feel it speaking to parts of me I’d rather ignore, and that alone is enough confirmation to spend an extra minute on it… Luke 22:48 But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” Spurgeon says first thing “The kisses of an enemy are deceitful”, not that he’s the first one to say it… Proverbs 27:6 The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane. Our pastor delivered a great sermon on Sunday that is dove-tailing in my heart with this… He said the most dangerous place to be was in the presence of the Lord Jesus, and to remain unchanged by him. Jesus has words for me which do not feel good in the moment - words I don’t even disagree with… but do I f…