Wish good for those who harm you; wish them well and do not curse them. Romans 12:14<\/p>\n
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?
\nI 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…
\nHe can help us do the same with those who hurt us.
\n-Max Lucado (Just Like Jesus) <\/p><\/blockquote>\nI 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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