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Jesus Passion Week - Wednesday Devotion


Jesus Passion Week – Wednesday
He Sought Opportunity to Betray Him

Luke 22:1-6 – “Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover. 2 And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill Him, for they feared the people. Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. 4 So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them. 5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6 So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them in the absence of the multitude.”

            The events of this passage of Scripture took place on Wednesday of the Passion Week of our Lord.  In these verses we learn that Judas conferred with the chief priests and officials to betray the Lord for money.  Verse six reveals that Judas “sought opportunity to betray Him.”

            Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Him.  He was one of the twelve.  He had traveled with our Lord and he knew who Jesus was.  He had seen him in all kind of situations.  He had witnessed the healing of blind Bartimaeus on the roadside.  He had been with Jesus when the lame walked, the deaf ears were opened, and the dead were raised to life again, yet he sought for an opportunity to betray Him.

            I wonder how many times we seek an opportunity to betray Him.  How do we betray Him?  We betray Him when we succumb to temptation.  Do we betray Him with our eyes or our speech?  We can betray Him with what we touch, and the places we go.  When I was growing up in children’s church we use to sing a little song, “Oh be careful little eyes what you see.” “Oh be careful little ears what you hear.”  

            Have you betrayed Him by what you’ve heard? What you’ve seen? Or what you’ve touched?  Romans 6:13 reads, “And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

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