What is the Cost of Betrayal?

“Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, ‘What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?’ So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.” Matthew 26:14-15

As I read through the passion week of our Lord, it struck me in a fresh way that our Lord was sold for thirty pieces of silver, the price of a slave, gored by an ox. See Exodus 21:32. Now with money values constantly fluctuating, it is difficult to determine the exactness of this amount to today’s currency. However, the long and short of the amount still would have been a pitiful sum compared to the value of our Savior.

The greater tragedy was that the betrayer was “one of the twelve.” One cannot help thinking of Psalm 41:9, which says, “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate bread, has lifted his heel against me.” So allow me to ask you as a follower and disciple of Jesus, what are you willing to do in order to betray Jesus the Christ? To redirect the question, what temptation and act of sin has overcome you in such a way that you are willing to betray the relationship you profess with our Redeemer for a pitiful sum? Give it some thought! Honestly friend, when you think about it, it really does not require much to twist our heart to falling for sin instead of remaining faithful to Him who gave everything for us.

“If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us” (1 John 1:10) 

Prayer:
Lord, forgive me for the many times when I accepted Your love and grace so freely, but in the next moment turned my back to you and chased after my selfish desires. Today, I confess that I am a betrayer and my sins are before to You my Savior. Jesus I seek Your forgiveness.