AT THE TABLE
Today's reading:  Matthew 26-28

"When it was evening, Jesus sat down at the table with the twelve disciples. While they were eating, he said, The truth is, one of you will betray me. Greatly distressed, one by one they began to ask him, I'm not the one, am I, Lord?" Matthew 26:20-22 NLT

I can just imagine at the moment Jesus spoke these words, a dead silence fell over the room. The laughter ceased. The conversations ended abruptly. The forks fell silent beside the plates, or in midair. The servants, I believe, even stopped in their tracks.

Quietly the closest followers of Jesus began personal inventories of their hearts. They began in that spur of the moment to do some soul searching. They started looking deep within. Replaying conversations. Thinking over attitudes they had. Motives they were working on.

Imagining how I would have felt, I can only think this would most certainly be a time for self-evaluation.

But then again, in regards to our relationship with the Lord, shouldn't every day have a time we spend looking deep within-analyzing our hearts, re-thinking our actions?

Judas was sitting at that table. I believe he probably lost his appetite after Jesus' statement. Maybe he choked on his piece of lamb.

I think I'd have choked up at that moment, too.

Maybe not for betrayal per say, but for ignoring my Savior, refusing to listen to my Lord, letting my Redeemer down, distracting myself with good things instead of doing what He was asking of me, busying myself with ministries.

I am thinking about what it would be like to be sitting at that table with Jesus.