126. The Prayer Of The Disciples At Meat With Our Savior.

The Prayer Of The Disciples At Meat With Our Savior. The Prayer as recorded.—Matthew 26:21-25. The Lord’s Answer.—Matthew 26:25. At table the disciples of our Savior are seated. He has just announced a sorrowful truth which has left its impress of sadness on the countenances of each, and caused the short and earnest prayer now under consideration. Knowing their love to Jesus, as he announces that one among them is a betrayer, they, like true Christians, examine their own hearts; they would be satisfied with their present position; and as the united prayer is made to Jesus, there is one tongue silent—it is that of the betrayer. As if conscious of the great truth, that the eyes of the Lord are upon all, and that nothing can be concealed, and yet to deceive the disciples, his inquiry is made after their prayer. Judas, notwithstanding his plausible conduct, was a hypocrite and a dishonest man; sin had a full and firm possession of his heart, and Satan’s deep, dark teachings, were listened to by him and guided him. As we read in the holy word of God, his sacred will, and the denunciations, so deep and heavy against every class of sinner, oh let us go to Jesus with the inquiry, with the deep earnestness of prayer, “Lord, is it I?” Let us give no rest to these bodies or souls, until an approving conscience and inward feeling of sin pardoned, and peace with God is ours, until we can feel our Father’s smile is on us, when he whispers to our spirits in the hour of prayer, “There is now therefore, no more condemnation to them who are in Christ,” “for he has given his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”