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Easter, A Time for Self Examination

Health Professionals tell us there are some self examinations we should perform once a year. I believe there are some spiritual self examinations that we should do at least once a year, if not more frequently. I want to make sure that I'm examining myself to make sure I'm not taking
my walk with Christ fo granted. At this Easter I am reminded of Judas. His is an example I do not want to follow.

During one of my Bible readings I came across the passage about Judas dipping his hand in the bowl with Christ. To me, this is a passage mixed with strong emotions? Here is a person close enough to Christ to actually touch Jesus' hands in a bowl. Here’s a man who lived and traveled with Christ. How fearful and bone chilling is this warning? He saw Christ, touched Christ, lived with Christ, traveled with Christ, did miracles in Christ’s name. He saw the miracles, even performed some himself under Christ’s authority. Yet he did not commit himself to Christ. Less than 24 hours with his hand in the bowl he rejects the Sovereign Lord. He goes out and commits suicide.

Reading about Judas made me wonder about others who came in contact with Christ.
Could those who mocked Christ as they passed by on the way to Calvary be any of those who ate the Bread he miraculously multiplied? Could any of them be those whom Jesus healed?
I wonder

Could those who yelled crucify have stood on Zion’s Hill while He fed the crowd that day?
Could those who jeered him from below the cross have been laid by the road so that Christ could touch them or they Him?
I wonder

Do you think the woman with the issue of blood could have been a mocker, what about Jarius and his daughter? What about the demoniac who was released from thousands of demons, or the Samaritan woman, or the Syrophonecian woman who wanted relief for her child;Could any of those been mockers?
I wonder.

It’s hard for me to believe they would be mockers. Yet there is Judas who dipped his hand in the bowl with Christ hours before this crucifixion. Could I become a mocker?

No wonder Paul admonishes us to work out our own soul’s salvation with fear and trembling. May I never mock the Christ who died for me on the corss at Calvary.
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