Betrayal

I am Judas' kiss, but You love me anyway.

~Sidewalk Prophets~

Betrayal...

Coming to terms with the fact that you can't change 

what someone else has done to you...

Is a huge feat.

Living with that fact...

Is a giant challenge.

But dying for the one who has betrayed you...

Is a true MIRACLE!

Betrayal is one of the most painful things in life to endure.

It can seem worse than illness, worse even than death.

The betrayer may never express remorse, they may

never even acknowledge that the betrayal has taken place. 

I am guilty of this. We are all guilty of this.

"See, I am the one who yelled out from the crowd

For Your blood to be spilled on this earth shaking ground,

Yes, then I turned away with a smile on my face,

with this sin in my heart, tried to bury your grace"

~Sidewalk Prophets~ "You Loved Me Anyway"

I'd like to think this wouldn't be me, 
that I wouldn't have betrayed Him, 
but the truth is, I am not capable of His kind of love.
I am nothing more than one of His betrayers.  
Yet, Jesus took this betrayal of Him,

and gave His life for it. 
"And He loved me anyway."

I cannot comprehend His love.

Not at all. 

His Word tells us over and over of His love for us. 

Yet, understanding that kind of love, that kind of grace,

that kind of sacrifice, for my freedom, for your freedom,
to break my chains, to break your chains,
to right the wrongs of His enemies,
to right the wrongs of my enemies,
of those who betrayed him, of those who have betrayed me,
and of those who have betrayed you,

is more than I will ever be able to comprehend. 

So I'll just share the words and music to this beautiful song,

that say it better than I ever could :)

"How Can It Be"

I am guilty

Ashamed of what I've done, what I've become

These hands are dirty

I dare not lift them up to the Holy one

You plead my cause

You right my wrongs

You break my chains

You overcome

You gave Your life

To give me mine

You say that I am free

How can it be

How can it be

I've been hiding

Afraid I've let you down, inside I doubt

That You still love me

But in Your eyes there's only grace now

You plead my cause

Your right my wrongs

You break my chains

You overcome

You gave Your life

To give me mine

You say that I am free

How can it be

How can it be

Though I fall, You can make me new

From this death I will rise with You

Oh the grace reaching out for me

How can it be

How can it be

You plead my cause

You right my wrongs

You break my chains

You overcome

You gave your life

To give me mine

You say that I am free

How can it be

How can it be

"Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." 
Romans 5: 7-8