Les Parrott wrote, “Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.”[1]  Back-stabbing and betrayed are not words that we want or like to hear. Unfortunately, most of us are painfully aware of the betrayer’s sting. 

A friend promised to be there for you but you haven’t seen him in months.

She told you she would be yours forever but now she’s with someone else, maybe saying the same thing.

He’d promised to keep your secret but he didn’t. It’s out and everyone knows.

She said she’d come. She promised. But she didn’t and you’re left by yourself, again. 

Betrayal is not a new thing. In August 480 BC, during the second Persian invasion of Greece, a small Greek force under the Spartan king Leonidas defended Greece against the southward advance of Xerxes’ Persi…