Just a word of caution today about an item of spiritual health… BEWARE OF “THE JUDAS SYNDROME!”
This spiritual dysfunction begins to develop when material things and self-seeking begin to occupy and dominate a persons heart. A symptom of this dysfunction often appears when a person sees a random heart-felt act of generosity or kindness and they find themselves questioning its motives or being critical of the person who initiated it (check out Matthew 26:6-13). Another expression of the syndrome appears when a small slight or disillusioning experience occurs and there is no spiritual energy to resist the bitterness that begins to arise within the heart. Given time the “Judas Syndrome is spiritually destructive and deadly (Hey, its spiritual lethal nature doesn’t reveal itself overnight!). I just read about it again today in the Bible… Actually the account from which the “syndrome” receives its name…
“Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What will you give me if I deliver Him [Jesus] over to you?’ And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. (Matthew 26:14–16 ESV)
I’m personally convinced that “THE JUDAS SYNDROME” is one of the reasons the Bible warns… “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it!” (Proverbs 4:23 NIV) and in another place tell us… “For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.” (James 3:16 NIV)
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