What Jesus Did! 'One of You!' — Mark 14:20

How sad Jesus' words must have been to the apostles when they first heard them. How sad these words must also have been later as they remembered them. What a powerful reminder to us of our ability to falter and to let our Lord down. Our church, our fellowship of believers, will often have a "Judas" in our midst — someone who betrays Jesus and his disciples for some kind of personal gain. While we may not view our sins as being as bad as Judas', we have all let the Lord down and betrayed him at some point in our lives (Romans 3:23), and sin is sin. Thank God that he is forgiving. Thank the Lord Jesus that he paid the price to ransom us back from our weakness, hypocrisy, betrayal, and failure. Let's use our time at the Lord's Table to remind us of the price for our forgiveness, of our vulnerability to letting the Lord down, and of the opportunity we have to live passionately for him. Most of all, let's remember that we can begin again, fresh and forgiven, and we must not let Satan win the battle when we falter. Let's get back up, ask for the Lord's forgiveness, receive his cleansing, and faithfully live for his glory in the future.