I was driving home and listening to the radio, a song was playing, it was a song by the group U-2 called "In the Name of Love". A Christian group had re-recorded it and it was playing on my Christian station. The song contains lyrics about Christ and they were singing the line "one man betrayed with a kiss".
And it got me thinking of the irony of the night that Judas led the Romans to come and arrest Christ in the garden. To identify Christ, Judas walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek.
The irony of the fact that God is Love. In Love God gave us the free will to choose Him or reject Him, that in Love God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to give the salvation message. That in Love Christ told us to love our neighbors, to love our spouses, to love ourselves and in love take this message to everyone in the world. And in Love, Christ sacrificed himself to pay the ransom to free mankind on the cross!
And yet, the very act of betrayal came from a kiss to identify the God of Love.
How is our Love life?
Are we honoring God in action? To love one another, to lift up and love our families, our neighbors and our world? Or are we betraying the God of Love with a kiss?
I would like to recite one of the most famous verses from the Bible in regards to Love it comes from the New Testament book of Corinthians 13:4-8:
Love is patient; love is kind.
Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way: it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And now faith, hope, and love abide,
and the greatest of these is love.
It will be my prayer for you, that this is the Love you will reflect to each other and share with each other and bring as much joy and happiness as possible into your lives under the guidance of the Lord.
The Lord of Salvation, lover of your soul, friend of sinners and the God of Love!
Have a blessed and wonderful day and spend it in Love.
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