look up at Jesus, the Star of Bethlehem

Friends,May Lord Jesus brings you New blessings from God this Christmas. The Magi saw the Star and followed. Meanwhile they applied their worldly knowledge – ‘the kings of Israel ae living in Jerusalem. The new king must born there’ – So, they entered Jerusalem and asked the king Herod. The new king was not there. The Scholars told them it must be Bethlehem where such Messiah was born. Then, they went out from Jerusalem to go to Bethlehem as the Scripture says. As soon as the Magi applied their worldly knowledge they lost the Star.But the Star appeared again as soon as they applied and follow the Scripture  after they realized their worldly knowledge couldnot give them any benefit.

Friends, I have read and re-read these verses many times since my childhood but God gives me this knowledge (difference from my earlier study). This is recorded here not just for remembtance of the incident but to tells us this lesson :- Worldly knowledge can not gives us understanding about God’s word and by applying such worldly knowledge we can not follow God’s way. Let us always look up at Jesus ( the Star of Bethlehem) as Apostle Paul tells us and follow His ways with prayer and by studying God’s words in the Bible prayerfully. Only then, we can understand the will of God and His plan for us.

If you commit your life  to Jesus Christ and will follow His words, write ‘Amen’ to pray for His help. May God bless you.

Let us read God’s words from Matthew 2

“The Magi Visit the Messiah

2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem ² and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

³ When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. ⁵ “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:

⁶ “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
    are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
    who will shepherd my people Israel.’^[b]”

⁷ Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.⁸ He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

⁹ After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. ¹¹ 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, frankincense and myrrh. ¹² And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”(Matthew 2:1-12)