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Judas’s Guilt and the Weight of Glory

My home group has been going through 1 Peter over the past couple months, with the occasional break here and there due to summer plans, and possibly an attempt to maintain sanity. The other day I was told that we’d be doing something different this past week, and to let the other members of our home group know that we should bring a meaningful verse to discuss instead of 1 Peter. Now, I don’t know what part of my brain kicked in and does things like this, but the first verse I thought of was “And Judas went and hung himself.” Granted, that’s not a word for word recitation of Matthew 27:5, but it was close enough for me to give myself a quizzical look, laugh, and text several people to inform them of the insanity that just occurred. I don’t know if it was that sarcasm tends to be what makes waking up before noon on a Sunday tolerable, or if that’s just the way my brain works. Honestly, I probably don’t want to know the answer to that question. But as I was driving in to work the next day, it hit me that there was much more to this than its comedic value. Even in Judas’s last moments, even as a traitor, there’s a lesson for us.
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