People can let us down.
Sometimes it’s someone not so close to us, other times it is.
I haven’t really played much of the game Halo, and it shows as a result.
I was playing in a team format with my best friend Jason and I was awful playing against a whole bunch of people online.
We were losing pretty badly.
I started running towards someone and got taken out quick during the game.
I didn’t know what happened, until I heard Jason laugh.
My own friend and teammate took me out.
I spoke up, “DUDE!”
He said, “What? You were slowing me down.”
Then for the rest of the game we turned our back on our own team.
The people on our team online were not too thrilled with it.
Betrayal in video games can be funny, in real life, it’s anything but.
We can get hurt by those closest to us.
It’s sad sometimes.
I have had people let me down, and I have let people down in the past.
It’s not a good situation.
At least nobody close to me has ever turned me in to be killed.
This happened to Jesus.
One of his closest people turned him in to be killed, Judas.
Jesus knew it was coming in Luke 22:48…
“Judas, are you betraying the Son of man with a kiss?”
Judas told the chief priests the one he kissed was the one to punish.
Jesus was arrested at that moment.
If Jesus wanted to, he could have taken Judas out no questions asked.
He was the Son of God, yet he went with the people.
Jesus knew this is what his life would lead too.
He was completely innocent and yet was betrayed.
This is the man we worship.
Someone who was innocent and yet was arrested, he did this for us.
It’s hard to be stabbed in the back, but how you respond shows who you are as a person.
What type of person are you going to be and we are going to look at the type of person Jesus was over the next couple of weeks.
Have a great day.
