Today is Spy Wednesday

This is something I hadn't heard of before - had you?

The Wednesday of Holy Week has been referred to as "Spy Wednesday" because it is on this day that we remember Judas' striking a bargain with the high priest to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. In Matthew 26:14-16, we read, "Then one of the Twelve — the one called Judas Iscariot — went to the chief priests and asked, 'What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?' So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over."

I wondered what 30 pieces of silver would equate to in today's dollars. I honestly have no idea, and the research I did wasn't much help at all. I found a very wide range of figures on-line - anywhere from $400 to $6,000,000. Even $400 must have seemed like an immense amount of money in Jesus' day. But still, most of us are somewhat shocked to imagine one of Jesus' inner circle betraying him for any amount of money.

Yet if we're honest, don't we have to acknowledge that we sometimes betray him for far less?

Our God is faithful - he always has been and always will be. Let us make every effort to imitate the faithfulness of our God. We are made in his image; let us try to emulate him.