30 pieces of silver

Tuesday of Holy Week was the day that Judas is recorded as negotiating the price of betrayal of Jesus. For 30 pieces of silver he was willing to give his friend into the hands of his enemies. How could this be? It was only later at the last supper that we're told that Satan entered into him, and that certainly empowered the treachery of his deed. But he was Jesus' friend. Of course we remember that on a perhaps lesser level even Peter denied knowing Jesus and betrayed him in this sense. The truth is we are fickle followers at best and turncoats at worst. For what would I trade my relationship with Christ as Saviour and Lord? Would I deny him? Would I actually betray him? Foolishness declares that I would never deny or betray my Lord. Wisdom understands the resident darkness of my heart and sets a guard.  "Oh to grace, how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be. Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above."