“One of you men who has eaten with me from this dish will betray me.” (Matthew 26: 23)
During Lent I reflect on experiences throughout the past year and how my readings and lessons from the Bible help me through those experiences. The season is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness, and as we look towards the Easter season Betrayal is center stage.
Betrayal is a loss of trust; betrayal is hurtful and is caused by ego and selfishness. Betrayal can be between you and God; it can be between parents and children, husbands and wives, it can be between friends. Often betrayal is private and not out in the open for the world to see. However, betrayal is most egregious when people we hold in positions of leadership and public trust betray the very people who empower the leaders. In today’s world we are experiencing betrayal by those we put into Public Service and this is very much in the open, much like Jesus at the end. Those in Public Service and leadership in Public Service must hold the support of the people sacred. To betray that Trust is to tear down the very essence of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness declared in our Constitution. Now we have people given the Public Trust ruling and dictating rather than governing and leading, tearing at the very fabric of our Christian lives in a country founded under God.
So let us pray for lost souls.
Warren Judge
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