If Someone Broke Your Trust

If Someone Broke Your Trust Does anything hurt as bad as being stabbed in the back by someone close to you? Betrayal literally means to expose someone else. It’s when you’ve felt alone for SOOOO long, and then you finally meet someone who feels like they’ll be a great friend, until you overhear them make an ugly comment about your accent, or your skin color, or your experiences, or fill-in-the-blank. That person is drawing attention to—exposing—something that lifts them up, but tears you down. Part of God fulfilling his promises included God experiencing betrayal. In an Old Testament book called Zechariah, there’s a passage about religious leaders abusing their power. It mentions these evil leaders paying 30 pieces of silver, and then the money being thrown back into the temple. Over time, this verse became a future-looking picture of Jesus’ own betrayal. Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ best buds, accepted 30 pieces of silver to stab Jesus in the back. Part of God’s promise to fix brokenness in the world through Jesus included being betrayed by a close friend.