Having just washed the feet of his disciples, including both Judas and Peter, Jesus now predicts the betrayal of the former and the denials of the latter. God loved Judas. If he didn’t love him, he wouldn’t have washed his feet. Right up to the end Judas had opportunity to turn from his intentions. Jesus knew he would not turn from this path but he loved him right to the end; he did not give up on him. God never gives up on us. There is never a point where you go too far for God to save you. However, it is possible to go so far down a given pathway and to become so bound up with an agenda that it becomes harder and harder to turn back. It is just like that point in a river that comes close to the waterfall. If you let yourself go that far you lock yourself into a position that is virtually inescapable. It is not that God cannot reach in and snatch you. But we dare not count on that. The further you go down a path of any selfish agenda the worse for you. Let us not use God’s grace to dampen the urgency of this warning. Peter also betrayed Christ in a sense, but Peter was not so entwined in the kind of agenda that Judas was entwined in. It is never too late to turn around and be reconciled to God, but we should always do it sooner rather than later lest the momentum of our rebellion becomes so strong that we lose all inclination to do so.
Ask God to show you any agendas of your heart that are not in line with his will.
Read John 13:18-38
