Wish good for those who harm you; wish them well and do not curse them. Romans 12:14
It would be hard to find someone worse than Judas. Some say he was a good man with a backfired strategy. I don’t buy that. The Bible says, “Judas… was a thief” (John 12:6). The man was a crook. Somehow he was able to live in the presence of God and experience the miracles of Christ and remain unchanged. In the end he decided he’d rather have money than a friend, so he sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver… Judas was a scoundral, a cheat, and a bum. How could anyone see him any other way?
I don’t know, but Jesus did. Only inches from the face of his betrayer, Jesus looked at him and said, “Friend, do what you came to do.” (Matt 26:50) What Jesus saw in Judas as worthy of being called a friend, I can’t imagine. But I do know that Jesus doesn’t lie, and in that moment He saw soemthing good in a very bad man…
He can help us do the same with those who hurt us.
-Max Lucado (Just Like Jesus)
I think the other thing is… Jesus sees the good in us too. No matter how wretched we might be, Jesus still loves us and wants to spend eternity with us.
