What Grieves Jesus

^{18 -20}"I'm not including all of you in this. I know precisely whom I've selected, so as not to interfere with the fulfillment of this Scripture:

The one who ate bread at my table

Turned on his heel against me. "I'm telling you all this ahead of time so that when it happens you will believe that I am who I say I am. Make sure you get this right: Receiving someone I send is the same as receiving me, just as receiving me is the same as receiving the One who sent me."

²¹After he said these things, Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why. "One of you is going to betray me."

^{22 -25}The disciples looked around at one another, wondering who on earth he was talking about. One of the disciples, the one Jesus loved dearly, was reclining against him, his head on his shoulder. Peter motioned to him to ask who Jesus might be talking about. So, being the closest, he said, "Master, who?"

^{26 -27}Jesus said, "The one to whom I give this crust of bread after I've dipped it." Then he dipped the crust and gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. As soon as the bread was in his hand, Satan entered him.

"What you must do," said Jesus, "do. Do it and get it over with."

^{28 -29}No one around the supper table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the Feast, or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰Judas, with the piece of bread, left. It was night.

John 13

Jesus talked often about the suffering He was going to endure and the death that He had to go through to redeem us but here we see Jesus upset and even grieve because it's because He knows that one of His own disciples is going to betray Him. these are the people that He picked and loved. for Him to know that judas was going to betray Him must have been so hard. now to bring it to us. He loves us and treasures us. but time and time again, Jesus knows of the ridicule that He goes through from people who aren't saved and come back. but for us, as Christians and believers, to be quiet when His name is slandered or to even forget Him by putting our own agendas ahead of His, He grieves. when we do things that don't honor or slander His name, we make Him grieve. and for us to know that the Holy Spirit lives within us, how does this change our actions? how does this change our decision-making? let's try our best to make our Father joyful! and let's call on the Holy Spirit for help do that! i sure don't want to see Jesus grieving because of something that i did, or we, His children, did. let's remember to glorify and honor God in all that we do!