A little more on Judas

Finally, break!

I must admit that it has been quite difficult to stay on top of blogging, both because I am very busy and it is hard to get alone.  I also must say that I owe part of my lack of blogging to my quickly obtained obsession with the show Lie to Me, which I have now almost finished.

So, yesterday in church we were looking at Matthew 26, which is back where Judas betrays Jesus.  Of course, because earlier this year I took a new prospective on this story, I was engaged as soon as we began looking into it.  But this time I realized something that I had not before: Judas was one of the 12.

Okay, I know what you're thinking.  Duh, Whitney.  Everyone knows that.  I mean for heaven's sake, they were all sitting around the table when Jesus told them that one of his disciples would betray him.  Okay, cut me some slack.  But really!  Jesus' 12 disciples were his followers and his best friends.  They were always with him.  As we read through the passage where Judas greets Jesus with a kiss in order to betray him, I realize that this could not have been an easy moment for Jesus.  His best friend walks up to him and kisses him, when "secretly" he has gone behind Jesus' back and sold him...in order to kill him!  Oh my.

As I thought about this, and I thought about the hurt that this must be causing Jesus (along with everything else), I attempted to put myself in His situation.  I imagined how I would feel if my best friend betrayed me, and right in front of my face at that!  I would not be angry, honestly I would just be so incredibly hurt.  I mean, it would have been one thing if some random guy named Judas came up and betrayed him.  That still would have been terrible, but I think that would have just brought anger.  Judas Iscariot, being Jesus' best friend, betrays him and it brings so much hurt.

As my previous blog talked about, we, as followers of Christ, strongly identify with Judas.  But now it shows even more how we hurt Jesus.  As His followers, we are Christ's best friends.  He loves us more than anything, and especially because we believe in Him and try to model our lives after Him, He is hurt beyond belief when we sin against Him.

Because we often just view Jesus as some invisible person that we can just ask for things and hope they come true, it is difficult to see that we can hurt Him.  But I sincerely believe that our sin hurts our best friend, Jesus, more than anything.