How sad is the message engraved on this heart. It offers words of grief, spoken not out of bitterness over loss, but out of heartbreak over departure. The writer longs for His beloved to return to Him, to be reunited to Him before time intervenes and it becomes “too late.”

First Judas:

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:3-5

also Peter:

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Luke 22:62

Two men: both friends of the Lord, both betrayed Him, yet one made the right decision in the end. Though Peter’s sin was three times as bad as Judas (he denied the Lord three times, whereas Judas only betrayed Him once), it was Peter who made things right in the end. Judas chose to kill himself, never asking for pardon and thus denying His Lord the opportunity to forgive him. Peter wept bitter tears and later, when confronted with his Master, recommitted himself to serving Him (John 21).

Both sinned and both were “missed” by the Lord they had departed from. How sad that only one turned his grief into a rededication.

What about you? Are you separated from Him? He misses you too.
Will you make it right with Him, or will you stay away until it is too late?