Wednesday in Holy Week (Spy Wednesday)
The thirty-seventh day of Lent
Then
one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and
said, "What will you give me if I deliver him to you?" And they paid him thirty
pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.
(Matthew 26:14-16)
| For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend. (Psalm 55:12-13) |
To be betrayed by a friend is a bitter experience. The psalmist knew it and so did Jesus. But the truly sobering truth is that, Judas is, in a sense, Everyman--you and me.
| Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon Thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee. ’Twas I, Lord, Jesus, I it was denied Thee! I crucified Thee. |
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Ah, Holy Jesus |
And so, the scene is now set. We may not stand on the sideline and watch. We are involved. And now we follow Jesus on the Way of the Cross.
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