His Way

He went his way." Luke 22:4
What a statement in these four words. Judas, who had followed with the Lord for three years or so, now chooses to go his own way, for that is the sense of the verse. We think of scriptures like: "The way of transgressors is hard." Pray. 13:15. "The way of Cain." Jude 11. This is the way that is opposite to the way of God. It is a way of self-pleasing, a way of self-indulgence, a way that ends in sorrow and death, a way of separation from light and love.
The Lord was on His way to the cross. His disciples were with Him and enjoying His company for the last time before He died. Judas leaves this happy scene to go his own way. Money was the attraction— that force that would pull him away from the source of eternal riches. O, that we might beware. Does our way take us away from His presence? Do we ask ourselves the question, "If I take this way will the Lord be with me or will I leave Him behind?" It says in John 13:30 of Judas that "he went immediately out: and it was night." Physically, of course, it was night. But spiritually, too, he went out into the night and stayed there. The light was gone left behind. He deliberately turned his back on that true Light from heaven and was in darkness from that moment on.