Some betrayals hurt more than others

Would you rather have a friend betray you or someone in the distance?

Betrayal and things happening behind your back are bound to happen.

I am reading through an interesting section of scripture titled Jesus Predicts his Betrayal.

Honestly, it messes with my mind.

Jesus is having a meal with his disciples and during this meal he tells them one of them is going to betray him.

The disciples are thrown off by this.

These were 12 men that have followed Jesus around for close to three years.

They shared their life openly with Jesus and were very close to him.

Yet one would betray him.

They asked “Who is it?”

John 13:26-27…

“Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.”  Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.  As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.”

This scripture beats me up the more I read it.

Afterwards it mentions how the disciples are confused at what Jesus says and why he mentioned this to Judas, to us today, the answer is duh, but at that time they did not know.

How can you be so close to someone and still betray them?

I know that I am not perfect and I have let Jesus down multiple times.

I struggle with sin and it’s hard to believe Jesus would still forgive me.

Judas was the one who betrayed Jesus and the others couldn’t figure this out.

It hurts when someone betrays you and I couldn’t imagine what it was like for the group of believers or Judas during this time.

Really interesting scripture and I am still wrestling with it.

Have a great day.

Backstabber

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.