"And this is eternal life, that they may know You,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
John 17:3
I've wondered at time what kind of man this Judas wasa. What he looked like, how he acted,who his friends were. I've pictured him as estranged from the apostle. Friendless. Distant.
Yet I wonder if that true.
Perhaps he was just the opposite. Instead of sly and wiry, maybe he was robust and jovial.
But for all the things we don't know about Judas, there is one thing we know for sure: He had no
relationship with the Master. He had seen Jesus, but he did not know him. He had a religion but no relationship.
As Satan worked his way around the table in the Upper Room, he needed a man who had seen Jesus but who did not know him.
We learn this timeless lesson from the betrayer. Satan's best tools of destruction are not from outside the church; they are within the church.
Judas bore the cloak of religion, but he never the heart of Christ. Let's make it our goal to know . . . deeply.
Max Lucado の「God Is with You Every Day」より
とても考えさせられる意味の深いメッセージでした。
友を売る、神を売る。
ユダは、もしかしたら、友を売ったのかもしれません。
マックスが言うみたいに、ユダがキリストには会っていてもキリストを知らなかったとしたら。
私には、ユダを心からは軽蔑できない、何か心あたりのようなものがあります。
ユダの心で、ちゃんと悔い改めるべきことがある気がします。