It's easy to say we wouldn't do it, right? Sitting here, reading this, we wonder what Judas was thinking.
But in the middle of it... we make different choices. It's always easy to be dispassionately removed from a situation and talk about what you would do. But when that temptation is in front of you, or you're caught up in emotions, that calculating decision process often isn't available. We're all capable of incredibly poor choices. Many of us are lucky enough not to be in circumstances where the wrong decisions we make have grave consequences. But that doesn't mean we're better than anyone else. It simply means we are on a different path, and but for the grace of God, who knows what path we might be on. I can't say I'm any better than a lot of people who have done far worse things, but I haven't faced the same temptations under the same circumstances with the same pressures.
We all fall short, and we all rely solely on grace, and grace alone, to deliver us. We deserve condemnation, and yet we are given grace. So may we treat one another with grace, for we are all damaged, and capable of great damage.
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