On most news stands and at check out counters at retail stores everywhere there are publications prominently displaying filth and gossip, championing self-worship, while exploiting and exposing the dysfunction of so many pitiful celebrities, and every other vile worldly thing, while a small discount rack off in a corner of the stores sits God's Holy Word on a dusty shelf, or the bottom rack of some unlikely place.
It is often not easily located , but in it is found the greatest of treasures.
"After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. "
Matthew 2:1, 2, 10, 11
The Magi went to great lengths and great expenses to find the King of Kings.
They didn't listen to the voice or bidding of the evil King Herod,
the predominant voice of the natural world, whom they recognized as worthless and vile. These "wise men" were looking for the One foretold of, whose coming advent had been revealed to their hearts and minds, but not to the high priests of Israel,
Caiphas and Ananias, nor the Pharisees, whose hearts had become cold and hard.
God doesn't do things off in a corner, but the world we are passing through will try to obscure the Light of the World.
Counterfeits and shiny things abound everywhere, but nothing can satisfy us, answer our longings for wisdom, meaning, and purpose except for Jesus,
His Holy Spirit, and the power found in God's living and active Word.
In this season remember: Wise men still seek Him.
It is often not easily located , but in it is found the greatest of treasures.
"After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. "
Matthew 2:1, 2, 10, 11
The Magi went to great lengths and great expenses to find the King of Kings.
They didn't listen to the voice or bidding of the evil King Herod,
the predominant voice of the natural world, whom they recognized as worthless and vile. These "wise men" were looking for the One foretold of, whose coming advent had been revealed to their hearts and minds, but not to the high priests of Israel,
Caiphas and Ananias, nor the Pharisees, whose hearts had become cold and hard.
God doesn't do things off in a corner, but the world we are passing through will try to obscure the Light of the World.
Counterfeits and shiny things abound everywhere, but nothing can satisfy us, answer our longings for wisdom, meaning, and purpose except for Jesus,
His Holy Spirit, and the power found in God's living and active Word.
In this season remember: Wise men still seek Him.
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