A line too far

     In today's passage from Matthew the Chief Priests, Elders and Scribes were willing to pay 30 pieces of silver, which was a formidable sum, to have Judas betray our Savior. You know, the Son of God, the itinerant Jewish preacher who had week after week, spoken and taught in the temple. And yet, when Judas has remorse these same leaders will not accept the money back when Judas almost literally throws the silver back at them. It seems to me that it is a line the leaders will not cross. We'll send a man to his death but blood money? We'll have no part of it. Honor among thieves perhaps?  A line even these fowl leaders will not even cross?

      Since inauguration day and before, the President of the United States has been fowling the air with lies and his very life, an amoral, lying POS. ( too strong ? ). Last week Mr. Trump  crossed a line that dare not be crossed.  While virtually no one in the Republican party has taken this vacuous ass to task, the events in Helsinki had both Democrats and Republicans calling him a traitor and rightfully so. Another line crossed by Mr. Trump and this one a step too far. Honour among thieves? Too far for even Republicans?

        As this is not really a political blog and hopefully is geared to our actions, our faith and our love, how does this all fit in? The goal of this blog and our life is to call us to greater thought, introspection and then hopefully, prayerfully, on to ever increasingly faithful and decent, loving lives.  It is a journey forward, not we pray, a journey backwards. Our lives should not be regressive prayers and actions but progressive, with wisdom and increasing awareness of God in our lives.

       What I pray I don't become is a mindless religious zealot devoid of Scriptural understanding and love. I don' want to be that person that works towards a fake religious life filled with actions that promote my own man made agenda while proclaiming all the while tht I am a Christian of the highest order. That kind of life is one where you are so deluded  that you wind up justifying all kinds of abominations and then one singular evil act that you arbitrarily decide is a line too far. In short, a regressive, puny, dwindling faith that implodes on it's very self.

        Let us all look at the trajectory of our lives and faith. Are we moving forward in love , understanding and compassion?   Do we cross one line after another in our efforts to sustain a life that is focused solely on ourselves and our own agenda?  

Matthew 27:1-10

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death. They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

 When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. He said, ‘I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.’ But they said, ‘What is that to us? See to it yourself.’ Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, ‘It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.’ After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners. For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah, ‘And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set, on whom some of the people of Israel had set a price, and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.’