Daily Devotion - Mar 25 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

三月二十五日

經文: 「用親嘴的暗號賣人子。」（路加福音廿二：48）

要小心謹慎，當世人向你擺出笑臉，很可能他是想陷害你，就像猶大用親嘴做暗號賣人子。當有人想抨擊對付宗教，他往往先示好，表示尊敬此宗教，然後再攻其不備。所以，要小心那笑裡藏刀的偽君子，他居心叵測，圖謀不軌，我們要學習像蛇一般的靈巧，看穿他的詭計，避免上當。入世未深的青年人，要格外小心，保有一顆受教的心，願意聽進這些勸告，免得被陌生人包著糖衣的甜言蜜語誘惑而受騙。
但反過來說，你自己會成為忘恩負義，該受咒詛的敗亡之子猶大嗎？你受洗歸入上帝的名下，加入上帝的教會，也與眾信徒共領聖餐，這些都是與耶穌相親相近的表徵，有如神國一家人。但你是誠心誠意的嗎？還是你只是個掛名的基督徒，過著表裡不一的生活，滿口的仁義道德，做出來的卻是令人不齒的傷風敗德之事？若是如此，那麼但願你沒出生在世還好。喔，主啊，保守我們遠離虛假，不要做個口是心非，表裡不一的假基督徒，以致出賣您。主啊，我們真是愛您，有時我們會令您痛心擔憂，但我們絕非存心如此，我們渴望永遠愛您，忠心到底。


Morning, March 25

Scripture: "Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?"(Luke 22:48)

"The kisses of an enemy are deceitful." Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. Whenever a man is about to stab religion, he usually professes very great reverence for it. Let me beware of the sleek-faced hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity. Knowing the deceivableness 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 instructed all this day, that "the much fair speech" of the world may have no effect upon 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 do, and yet make a profession of being a follower of Jesus? Then I must expose religion to ridicule, and lead men to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called. Surely if I act thus 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 Saviour. I do love thee, Jesus, and though I often grieve thee, yet I would desire to abide faithful even unto 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.


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