“Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Harrod the king, behold three wise men from the East came to Jerusalem saying, “where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship Him.” Matthew 2:1

I’ve thought often about the three wise men because we know so little about them. They were certainly men of stature for they easily found an audience with Harrod the King. What country did they come from? There is great speculation by scholars that these wise men came from Babylon (in modern day Iraq), or at the very least that region where a form of astrology was heavily practiced. Yet their stature, or wealth, or religious background are even less of a curiosity to me than how God got the message to them about the Christ child having been born. These wise men were men of influence, and most likely wealthy given the gifts they brought, thus not easily swayed by whims and cultural shifts of the day. To make such a journey from their land to Bethlehem in that time was a little more complicated than packing up the SUV and heading down the interstate. Travel was no simple task, and yet they journeyed, certain that they were going to meet a King in the form of a new born child. Why were they so certain of whom they were going to meet? Did God come to them in a dream, or was it through the simple leading of the human mind guiding these men as they pieced the puzzle together from prophecy until no other explanation seemed plausible.

The Birth Of A King Was The Only Logical Explanation.  

With Christmas just past and a New Year approaching, how will you journey to find Christ this coming year? Is your trained and rational mind searching for the answers God has already placed in front of you? Are you ready to fully soak in to your mind, body and spirit that Christ came for one reason, and one reason only? That reason is YOU. “I have come,” Jesus is saying to you in John 10:10 “That you may have life, and have it abundantly”.