HOLY WEEK WEDNESDAY .......... 20.04.11
MATHEW 26:14-25........ " THE SON OF MAN IS GOING TO HIS FATE, AS THE SCRIPTURES SAY HE WILL, BUT ALAS FOR THAT MAN BY WHOM HE IS BETRAYED "
The " blood money " paid to Judas for the death of Jesus was thirty silver pieces which was compensation money for a dead slave and the same money was used by the Chief Priests to buy a "Potter's Field" which was being utilised as a rubbish yard to throw broken and useless pots by the potter.This field was intended to be reused to bury foreigners and those banished from the Jewish community.Ultimately those who became Christians were foreigners like us and those of the Jews who were sent out of the Jewish community.In other words Christ's life and our salvation and the eternal life of all mankind was valued as little as thirty silver pieces that can only buy a rubbish yard containing broken pots. This is the value the world puts on our souls.But Christ by his passion, death and resurrection picks up the broken and useless pots like us purchased by his blood and refashions us into beautiful souls fit to live with him forever. This is the value Christ puts on our sinful lives.
" In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye," Deuteronomy 32:10
This Wednesday Two thousand years back Judas heartlessly betrayed Jesus to death. Let us ask God to give us the grace and strength to be always faithful to him whatever be the temptations and attractions of this world. We are very precious in God's eyes.
God Bless.
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