Forsaken
Today’s Reading: Matthew 26:31-56
Focal Verse: Matthew 25:56b
Then the disciples forsook Him and fled.
They left Him. Three years of intimacy with Him and they left. He poured His life here on earth into them...and He knew they would leave Him.
He told them they would (v.31). He told Peter he would deny Him - not once, not twice, but three times (v.34). He told them He was sorrowful, even to death, and His three closest friends would not stay awake to pray for Him (v.38-40). One of His disciples betrayed Him with a kiss (v.49), and finally, with His arrest, they all renounced Him and fled.
If these were the people He was most intimate with, and they left, then why go to the cross? Why not go back to the Father and say, “Wipe them out and start all over again”? One word: Grace.
Any time we choose our own way instead of His, we forsake Him. He died for us, anyway. Humbly thank Him for His grace.
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