Betrayal; The Chief of Grief

This week-end many will celebrate love on Valentine's Day.

I am so thankful for all the faithful love in my life

but this year I feel an unutterable sorrow for so much brokenness!💔

And while the word Betrayal renews reverence for the word Faithful 

it also leaves us grief-stricken with a sometimes-feels-helpless heartache, 

to witness the ruins of shattered lives!

Is there any hurt more bitter and brutal than betrayal; When trust is broken?! 

When spouses, friends, preachers, teachers, apologists, priests 

betray those who trusted their love, 

their counsel, their ‘wisdom’, their vows, their office. 

One of Jesus’ twelve disciples betrayed Him, (with a kiss!) 

Surely there is a sorrow more bitter than death! 

That of betrayal! 

When trust is shattered, love besot, 

When what we thought was so, is not 

When lie and liar are unveiled 

When it seems, alas, love has failed 

God, who, still trustworthy and true 

(With Whom we all will have to do) 

Abides, resides, provides; He knows 

The pain of thorns that pierced the Rose 

He wept, while his beloved slept 

Betrayed by a friend’s kiss, no less

He reaches down with hands nail-scarred

He understands; his brow thorn-marred

Who plumbed the depths of pain and grief 

In suffering, ah, He is Chief 

So then, whatever bitter lot 

We can trust Him, no matter what 

© Janet Martin 

Heb.4:13

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. 

Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes 

of him to whom we must give account.

So we pray and pray for the broken, the betrayed, 

and the betrayer, just as Jesus, Son of God though He was, did. 

Heb.5:7-9

During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions 

with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, 

and he was heard because of his reverent submission.

 8Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered

 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation 

for all who obey him...