During my journey of trying to be a good Christian woman to become the 73-year-old faith-driven Christian woman I am today, I have learned a great deal, and I will continue to learn new things each day until the day I get called home. One of the worst things, if not the worst, I have learned that we can possibly do to another individual is the act of betrayal.
Our parents have taught us, and so has Scripture, that this action always gets caused whenever we reject the Lord’s will and fight for our own. And it is the Lord who can relate the subject of betrayal to us. And if any of us, being Christians, strives to become one of His disciples, we can never ever betray the Lord, our spouses, or anyone we love; we must consistently submit to His will.
Whenever we get betrayed ourselves, we must find the willingness through Scripture to forgive those betrayers just as our Lord had forgiven His.
And if we should ever happen to become one, we need to realize our quilt and act accordingly; as an example, we need to read MATTHEW 27:3-5 [NKJV]:
[3]“Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
[4] saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”
[5] Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
We need to realize that one of the prerequisites for a betrayal is an undealt with frustration that ultimately boils over; an undealt frustration is caused by pretending that no problems exist when there are. Frustrations are never a singular event, such as best friends splitting up over one argument. Betrayals should get noted as occurring whenever there are too many improperly handled frustrations.
We get reminded of this in recalling what we find located in EPHESIANS 4:26-27 [NKJV]
[26] Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,
[27] nor give place to the devil.
We need to realize that The Bible contains a lot of information regarding betrayal’s relationship to sin as a response to sin stemming from denial, despair, or repentance.
If someone has not repented and yet is not completely crushed by their sin, it means they are in denial and refuse to believe how bad sin really is. When repentance has not happened, but someone can no longer deny how horrible their sinfulness is, despair occurs, and they cannot live long under this weight of condemnation [see above MATTHEW 27:3-5 [NKJV]
The only good solution is to repent and receive God’s grace.
Have a MOST BLESSED WEEK, my dear sisters-in-Christ, as you strive to be the best you can be in the eyes of the Lord !!! 😊 😊 😊