Dealing With the Pain of Betrayal
When someone close to you lets you down [1] or does something that you would have never thought because of the relationship you have and betrays your trust, it really hurts. The betrayal of trust brings horrendous suffering to a loyal heart, and causes hatred to take root in the soul. For some people, who choose not the place this hurt in Jesus’ hands, they take to the grave the hurt of betrayal and unforgiveness. How many wars of child custody have been waged because of a single act of betrayal? How many families broken, how many children that have yet to forgive their parents, how many business dissolved; how many lives lost because of trust misplaced? How many hurtful actions are the result of a betrayed heart? are there any limits to the depth of the wounds of betrayal? Betrayal does not happen just in the secular world; many great men of God have fallen from grace because their decisions have betrayed the trust of their congregation. Or their l...