Title: Betrayal
“Betrayal” is a word that can never stand alone. It is always preceded by weakness in character, and followed by compromise. It is an act pregnant with selfishness and avarice. But, as in the case of Judas Iscariot, his assumed gain for his dark scheme was the mere common value of the meanest slave.
Whenever we hand over our reliance in God, in the form of His control over our lives, it is always in exchange for something else, which we deem the Lord has denied us: like wealth, or fame, or influence. While in reality that compromise will earn for us but fleeting things that even a slave would never find valuable at all. It just isn’t worth it.
At the end of the day, it’s either we are at table with the Lord at a farewell supper, or we are out there in the depths of a still, dark night.
