We can and do slip away also

Wednesday April 12th, Mark 14:10: Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. Judas gets a bad rap. What he did was place his own agenda first ahead of Jesus’ plan. He tried to get Jesus to do what he wanted him to do. Not much different from the rest of the disciples. Not much different from you and I. The disciples didn’t get what the unnamed woman got. Judas didn’t get what the unnamed woman got. Judas just acted on his inclinations as opposed to the other disciples who did nothing. It is so easy to get caught up in that take charge doing. It is so easy to use Christianity to control others. It is so easy to not get it. It is so easy to choose power and death over servant and life. Judas stands as a warning to us all on how easily we can and do slip into that same mindset as Judas and set in motion what we would want Jesus to do