Scripture: Matthew 2:1-8
Journal: How are you seeking Christ these days?
Where has it led you? In what
ways is he being found by you?
Reflection:
Although the scribes could explain where the
Messiah should be born, they remained quite unperturbed in Jerusalem. They did not accompany the Wise Men to seek
him. Similarly we may know the whole of
Christianity, yet make on movement. The
power that moved heaven and earth leaves us completely unmoved.
What a difference! The three kings had only a rumor to go
by. But it moved them to make a long
journey. The scribes were much better
informed, much better versed. They sat
and studied the Scriptures like so many dons, but it did not make them
move. Who had the more truth? The three kings who followed a rumor, or the
scribes who remained sitting with all their knowledge?
What a vexation it must have
been for the kings, that the scribes who gave them the news they wanted
remained quiet in Jerusalem! We are
being mocked, the kings might have thought.
For indeed what an atrocious self-contradiction that the scribes should
have the knowledge and yet remain still.
This is as bad as if a person knows all about Christ and his teachings,
and his own life expresses the opposite.
We are tempted to suppose that such a person wishes to fool us, unless
we admit that he is only fooling himself. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: O Lord our God, give us a heart to seek you
relentlessly, whatever it takes and wherever it may lead. Because in seeking you is our great
reward—finding you and being found by you.
This we pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen. (Watch and Wait by Jim Branch)
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