Be Not A Judas

**fennywest** Tue 16 Oct 2012, 7:33 am

Be Not a Judas!
Trades friend for trifle,
Planting a kiss of death.
Saves you pennies,
Steals, siphons your pounds.
Like some MPs caught in the act,
With fingers in the till;
With hands in the cookie jar;
Adamant, petulant and unrepentant.

Watch out! the fox is on the loose!

Betrays, berates, breaks, belittles trust,
Caught in the devil's devious den.
Selected, separated but a sell-out.
Selfish, sly and a snare.
Spanner in the works,
Demands a pound of flesh,
like shylock, cruel, crook, hooked.
Crafty, shifty, cunning, conniving
with foes, fiends, enemies!

In every twelve is there a Judas?
You tell me.

45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46 Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand."
47 And while He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now His betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him."
49 Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed Him.
50 But Jesus said to him, "Friend, why have you come?" Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took Him.
Matt.26:45-50