When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. — John 13:21

Being betrayed is something that almost everyone can identify with. In life, we seem to all experience betrayal at some point. Maybe it was when we were younger and in school. Perhaps it is a coworker or just someone you know socially. There are even times when friends or family betray us.

Betrayal is a violation of principle. It destroys the trust that we may have in someone or something. The worst thing about betrayal is that it often catches us off guard. We don’t always know when we are going to be betrayed, we simply experience it as it is happening.

Jesus shared with the disciples that someone was going to betray Him. What you do not read is the disciples all pointing to Judas and saying, “it’s you!” Yet, Jesus knew exactly what was going to happen. Judas was going to betray Him for silver. No one thought they would be the one to betray Jesus.

While this event may have happened many years ago, there are many that still betray God to this day. It has become so easy in our society to claim the title of Christian, but live any way that we want. We are not betraying Jesus to His death. But our betrayal goes against the calling that we were given.

When we accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, we were called to live a different type of life. We were called to live for God every day. We were not called to live for God selectively, or when we felt like it. The world needs to see Christians living for God every day. When we don’t, we are betraying God.

Jared Dyson