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Betrayed and Abandoned: Finding Comfort in Christ

rzc24-nftbbg — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:00:51 GMT

Yesterday, we concluded this semester's class in our Homiletics 2 class. One of my students delivered his final sermon task. His selected text was Matthew 26:36 to 46, about Jesus' prayer at Gethsemane.

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The narrative is not easy to exegete. It is also not easy to glean its central idea. What is obvious in the narrative is that Jesus is the main character, and the reference to him has been mentioned twelve times.

As for Jesus' action, the scenario is like he had been switching between talking to his disciples and praying to the Father. And as he kept returning to his disciples, he found them sinking deeper into their sleep and left alone in his sorrow and trouble.

The specific thing that made Jesus sorrowful and deeply troubled was the death on the cross that he was about to face. Judas' betrayal and the disciples' abandonment of him made such an approaching death even worse. In fact, to find strength in facing the cross, Jesus prayed to the Father three times for the same burden that troubled him.

This reminds me of General's Daughter, a 1999 crime-mystery film, about Army Captain Elizabeth Campbell, the daughter of Lt. General Joseph Campbell. She was gang raped by her fellow cadets. When her father was informed of that traumatic incident, instead of seeking justice for his daughter, the general chose to protect his military career and a promotion, telling his daughter to cover it up and forget what happened. That breach of trust by the person she expected to protect her broke her spirit far more deeply than the sexual assault. When Warrant Officer Paul Brenner (played by John Travolta) looks into the murder of the general's daughter, he realizes that what truly destroyed Elizabeth was betrayal—specifically by her own father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

We all know from experience that what makes betrayal and abandonment painful is the fact that such acts are done by people who are closest to us. These are the people we love and trust the most. You cannot say that something is a betrayal if it is done by someone distant from you. Such action would not affect us. But betrayal and abandonment done by people most intimate to us is very destructive, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. The question is, when confronted with such a situation, what are we supposed to do? Or perhaps the better question is, what does the experience of Jesus tell us about facing betrayal and abandonment?

Share Your Pain, But Be Realistic

First, it is natural to share the things that make us sorrowful and troubled with people close to us. However, we should be realistic when it comes to our expectations. People have their own personal burdens, or personal "demons," to fight. Being too idealistic in your expectation from your loved ones will surely lead to frustration. In the case of the disciples, they struggle to stay awake in a time that Jesus needed company the most. Despite their verbal commitment that they were willing to die with Jesus, they left him suffering alone. Likewise, expecting too much from people will make you realize the discrepancy between what people say and what they actually do. They could promise you heaven but give you hell instead. Such is human nature.

Tell Your Burdens to the Father

Usually, when people suffer betrayal, the usual response is either a complete withdrawal from them or from the presence of God. We are too afraid to trust people again. We want to protect ourselves, and that is why we set boundaries. Peace above anything becomes the most important thing for us. We want to recover from our brokenness and keep our emotional wholeness.

Setting boundaries is a wise response in the aftermath of tragic emotional suffering. However, to withdraw from the presence of God is a big mistake. Blaming Him for your misery is not only unwise; it will also prolong your suffering, for He alone understands the depth of your pains and remains stable when people and situations give you nothing but chaos.

Jesus Understands

Remember that Jesus is 100% human and 100% divine. As a man, his suffering was real. The pain of betrayal, abandonment, and death on the cross is real. No one is more capable of helping you in a time when someone betrays and abandons you, except Jesus, because He Himself suffered the same pain. This is what the author of Hebrews tells us:

For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted (Hebrews 2:18).

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin (ESV, Hebrews 4:15).

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The Way of the Cross

arcelcalvin9 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:18:48 GMT

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Becoming a Christian is not simply choosing a religion. It is a turning of the direction of one’s life and a change that rebuilds the relationships and values that were previously considered important. The Lord said:

Anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me (Matt. 10:38).

This word shows that the way of following Christ is by no means a light choice.

The cross is not merely a symbol of suffering. In the days of Jesus, the cross was an execution device. Therefore, taking up the cross means to deny oneself thoroughly as one who is already dead. In other words, to follow the Lord requires a life of thoroughly denying oneself.

This way of the cross is not an abstract spiritual concept. It is a reality that appears in concrete form in the life of the one who follows the Lord.

One such example is the spiritual conflict that arises within the family. The Lord said:

For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household (Matt. 10:35–36).

When the gospel enters, Satan seeks to shake the believer’s faith by using the closest relationships. If the gospel is light, Satan is darkness. When light enters, darkness resists. And the place where that resistance appears most fiercely is the family.

When a believer begins to follow the Lord, conflicts arise in relationships that previously had no problems. When one places the Lord’s word above the demands of parents, when one loves the Lord more than husband or wife, when one follows the Lord’s will rather than the expectations of family, conflict occurs. This is not a conflict caused by the believer’s wrongdoing but an inevitable phenomenon because the life of following the Lord essentially collides with the world. The Lord said:

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me (Matt. 10:37).

A faith that puts the Lord first sometimes shakes the peace of the family, brings tension into human relationships, and demands choices that are difficult to understand by worldly standards. This is the way of the cross.

The cross is not merely suffering but a life that willingly gives up for the Lord. For some, the cross is laying down the pleasures of the world; for others, it is laying down human recognition and comfort; and for others, it is keeping faith even in the midst of family opposition. Believers are sometimes misunderstood, mocked, treated unjustly, and even hurt by those closest to them. This suffering that comes because of faith is the very cross the Lord spoke of, and those who follow the Lord must be prepared to bear the cross given to them.

However, the way of the cross is not a path that ends in suffering. The Lord bore the cross but rose again on the third day, and through His resurrection revealed that the cross is not a symbol of defeat but a way of victory. The Lord said:

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it (Matt. 10:39).

The cross may appear to be a path of death, but in reality it is the path to life; it may appear to be loss, but in reality it leads to glory; it may appear to be weakness, but in the end it leads to victory.

The Christian faith is not a path that promises only peace on this earth, but a path that at times accompanies suffering. Yet that suffering is never in vain. As the Scripture says, "The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us” (Rom. 8:18), the life of bearing the cross does not end in suffering but surely leads to glory.

The Lord remembers every cross we have borne and will repay it with glory on the last day. Therefore, the cross is not a burden that crushes us but the path toward glory that the Lord walked ahead of us and called us to follow. The one who follows the Lord is the one who bears the cross, and the one who bears the cross will ultimately share in the Lord’s glory.

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