ASLC Devotions-Wednesday

John 13:21,25-27,31

21After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, ‘Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.’ … 25So while reclining next to Jesus, [the disciple] asked him, ‘Lord, who is it?’ 26Jesus answered, ‘It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.’ So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. 27After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, ‘Do quickly what you are going to do.’ … 31When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

A couple of years ago when I was first getting used to driving the car, I accidentally hit the side of my garage when I was coming home one night. Needless to say, there was some yelling, crying, and driving privileges taken away. For a while, it seemed like this little accident consumed my life.
But without my mishap in driving, I would not have written a narrative for my English class that I submitted to present at my school’s Writer’s Week in front of the whole school. I had turned a potentially terrible situation around by using it as inspiration to present in front of my peers.

Jesus knew that I would get in my accident, just as he knew that Judas would do something wrong; however, he did not judge me or Judas and just let us make our mistakes. Jesus knew that God would make both Judas and my problem turn into something good in the long run. Mistakes are inevitable; we just have to remember that God will take care of us and that it is all part of His greater plan for us.

Christine Spasoff

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