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Experiencing betrayal is a hard thing to do especially if it is someone you have put your trust in. As someone who works virtually from my home, I have found that placing trust in clients is something that I have to be willing to do. Yet I have to admit that some of my clients have betrayed me by either not paying me or after all my hard work, switching to another designer who takes credit for all my hard work.

Living through these types of betrays have been hard but compared to what Jesus had to deal with, I count it as small change. You see, He had to deal with Judas betraying Him in way that lead to Him dying on the cross. Now that’s betrayal! Yet Jesus still loved Judas just as much as the rest of His disciples even though He knew what Judas was going to do.

If you found yourself in the same situation, what would you do? Would you still love the person who would betray you and continue trying to act as though that person didn’t betray you? Or would you get offended and treat them as though they were invisible and get angry at them? I have to admit that I have not been perfect in this area and that I’ve taken offense. The only way that I’ve found that I can get past the offense is to turn it over to God and allow Him to heal me from the offense and to grow me through it.

Checkout Proverbs 12:19-22, “Truthful lips shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is [credited] but for a moment. Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but for the counselors of peace there is joy. No [actual] evil, misfortune, or calamity shall come upon the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil, misfortune, and calamity. Lying lips are extremely disgusting and hateful to the Lord, but they who deal faithfully are His delightoffice furniture in Bulgaria” (NLB).

How have you handled betrayal? Please share your experiences.