Betrayal happens any time of the year and even at Christmas time.

It’s a dark and ugly sin.

It cuts—-deep! LIKE NONE OTHER!

You share your heart and most intimate words and perhaps you’ve shared your body with another human being. And the person appears to care, to love, even to vow until death do us part. Then to walk away with no reason as to why and leaves you in the dust, so to speak. Tear stricken you stand and are at a lost to what in the world?

Perhaps the person hides behind leadership words, such as a grief-loss support leader, a divorce care leader, a Christian, a church board member, a deacon, an elder, and on and on we could go, even a community leader and/or a politician? Their titles are covers and cloaks with a deceptive twist as to who they really are! It’s pretense, show and tell, an act of betrayal, (again) to cover their shallowness.

Questions may fly through your mind, who does this to people? Why do they do this cruel deceptive game of playing with others hearts? So sick like.

Is it a power trip for them? 

Who are they really to the core of their heart?

What junk have they walked through and are NOT willing to face?

These are questions and normal to pour over and pour out as one navigates through betrayal.

My role model to follow is Jesus.

Jesus was betrayed by one of his closest buds, Judas. He wielded his way right into the upper room with the LORD. And Judas knew who Jesus was only to turn his back on Him and to betray Him– for MONEY! And those silver coins led Judas to take his own life.

So what stirs in your heart when you hear the word betrayed? Or betrayal?

Do you feel anger?

Resentment?

Hatred?

Sadness?

Disappointment?

Dismissed?

Deceived?

Grieved?

Forgotten?

Cast off?

Name them. Say them to yourself. 

Express them instead of avoiding them as that will empower you to move forward to healing by just saying how you feel.

I feel __________________________.

Then again, flip open your Bible and get your feet standing on the Truth.

Jesus sees it all and knows your story and the way. And He has the final say.

This is step one with betrayal as it takes time to grieve it. Name and feel it.

And the must important  ingredient will be forgiveness, just saying!

Believe! 

Psalm 139:16 “Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.”

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