Is there anything more biting than betrayal? We expect unbelievers to persecute us. We’re not surprised when an enemy or a competitor lies about us. We know that corporate life brings office politics. Yet we expect our friends to be loyal. When we’re close with someone, when we share our deepest secrets and trust him or her completely, and then he or she betrays that trust, that is intensely painful.
In today’s Lent meditation, we see how garden variety greed, unrepented and unchecked, was the sin that corroded Judas’ soul over time, and eventually put him in the position of betraying Jesus. But in looking at Judas, we will examine our own hearts and look at the everyday sins we commit and how if left unchecked and unrepented, they can lead us away from our Savior as well.