Pastor's Corner - 4/1

“Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.” - Luke 22:3

Wednesday of Holy Week is quiet on the surface, but heavy underneath. In Luke’s Gospel, this is the moment betrayal takes form. Judas Iscariot moves toward handing Jesus over.

It is a sobering scene. Not an outsider, but an insider. Not a stranger, but one who walked closely with Jesus for three years. 

Luke is helping us see something deeper. Sin does not begin in a moment. It grows quietly, often unnoticed, until it takes hold. What unfolds in Judas is a warning to examine the heart.

- Where has affection for Christ grown cold?

- Where has compromise been allowed to settle in?

Holy Week invites that kind of honesty.

Yet even here, grace is not absent. Jesus is not reacting in panic. He is moving with purpose toward the cross. He knows what Judas will do, and still he goes. This is the kind of Savior he is.

Preparation for Easter is not about pretending everything is fine. It is about bringing what is not fine into the light.

Dear Church, let us take time today to sit with the Lord. Confess what needs to be confessed. Turn again to Christ.

Because Easter joy is not built on denial, but on redemption.