Our Enemies, God’s Servants – Gary Thomas

“When night got here, Jesus was reclining on the desk with the Twelve. And whereas they had been consuming, he mentioned, ‘Really I inform you, one in all you’ll betray me.’

They had been very unhappy and commenced to say to him one after the opposite, ‘Absolutely you don’t imply me, Lord?’

Jesus replied, ‘The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.The Son of Man will go simply as it’s written about him. However woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It could be higher for him if he had not been born.’

Matthew 26:20-24

In a curious paradox of God’s sovereignty, Judas served God at the same time as he opposed him. Judas was 100% mistaken in betraying Jesus, but Jesus wanted to be betrayed. Jesus confirmed us how it’s potential to view our enemies as God’s servants: “The Son of Man will go simply because it has been written about him. However woe to the person who betrays the Son of Man!”

There is no such thing as a sentimentality, no convoluted pondering: “Since he’s serving God, possibly he isn’t actually accountable.” No; Judas is responsible. However in being responsible, he’s getting God’s work accomplished.

Matthew Henry (1662-1714), an English nonconformist clergyman, urges us to search out God’s windfall within the many slights and even persecutions that come our means: “We should abide by this precept that no matter it’s that crosses us, or is displeasing to us at any time, God has an overruling hand in it.”

Simply as Jesus accepted Judas’ betrayal as a part of God’s plan, and so many Previous Testomony prophets accepted the conquering struggle of international tyrants as God’s self-discipline, so Matthew Henry says we’re to simply accept our enemies’ taunts and persecutions as God’s instruments to refine us, form us, and remodel us, thereby conducting God’s will.

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