💔 What Are You Hiding from God? | Matthew 26 Devotional (7-Step QT)

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Ask God to reveal anything hidden in your heart and teach you what it means to live honestly before Him.

2. 📅 March 26, 2026

Today’s passage reminds us:

Nothing is hidden from God, so we are called to walk before Him with honesty, reverence, and holiness.

3. ✝️ Matthew 26:14-25

Judas Iscariot agreed to betray Jesus to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver and began looking for an opportunity to hand Him over. Meanwhile, Jesus prepared the Passover with His disciples and, during the meal, revealed that one of the twelve would betray Him. Jesus declared that the Son of Man would go as it is written, warned of judgment on the betrayer, and finally exposed Judas as the one who would betray Him.

4. 📖 Key Verse

Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.” (v. 25)

5. 📝 Reflection

There is one common trait among those who commit sin: they are not truly at ease with what they do. Of course, there are sins committed in ignorance, but in most cases, people know at some level that what they are doing is wrong, and they want to hide it from others. When we slander someone behind their back, we hope that person never finds out. When someone commits fraud to take another person’s money, they do not want the victim to realize they are being deceived. Even when a person plots evil against someone else, they hope that no one will discover it. Does this sound too extreme? Then let us examine ourselves. When we sin, do we try to hide it, or do we do it openly?

One of the twelve disciples whom Jesus loved had already resolved to betray Him. He had already received the payment for his betrayal and was looking for the right moment to bring men to arrest Jesus and hand Him over to the chief priests. Yet he carefully concealed all of this and still took part in the Passover meal with Jesus. Judas either never truly believed that Jesus was the Son of God, or he thought that Jesus would not know what was in his heart. That may be why, when Jesus foretold that one of His disciples would betray Him, Judas was inwardly shaken. Perhaps he became anxious, wondering whether his plan had been exposed. Even so, pretending that nothing was wrong, he asked Jesus,

“Rabbi, surely it is not I?”

Beloved saints, God is the One who created all things in the beginning and who still rules over everything. Unlike human security cameras, there is no blind spot before God. Wherever we are and whatever we do, God knows it all. He even knows the thoughts hidden in our hearts. Therefore, when we sin, we are not sinning secretly from God, but right before His face. Today, let us once again understand what it means to fear the Lord, and let us become holy believers who live reverently before Him.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

• Is there anything in my life that I have been trying to hide from God?
• Am I more concerned with appearances than with genuine obedience?
• Where is God calling me to repent and walk in greater honesty today?
• What would it look like for me to live before God with reverence and integrity?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Lord, You know everything about me.

Nothing in my heart is hidden from You.

Search me, cleanse me, and lead me in Your truth.

Help me stop hiding and teach me to walk before You with honesty, reverence, and holiness.

Amen.

Scriptures

📖 (Matthew 26:14-25, ESV).

14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’ ” 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. 20 When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. 21 And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” 23 He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” 25 Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.”

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