| A Message "How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path." Psalm 119:103 -105 |
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Are You Seeking the King? Matthew 2:1,2 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2saying, " 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." A few days ago Jon-Jon and I were venturing out to Wally World (better known as Wal-mart) to pick up some sort of protein for you-know-who and as always I was listening to the radio in an attempt to keep my nerves down. For those who don't know me, I hate to shop. I go in with a list or a specific item in mind and I come out with just that and rarely every anything else. Thanksgiving ushered in the shopping nightmare for me, Crowds, browsing cattle free roaming, counting Impaired people in the 10 items or less line, just to name a few. Anyway, the radio was chimming out the usual mix of christmas carols and Jon and I were enjoying them whole-heartedly. After a few, a thought popped into my head, "My best friend, the one who listens to my endless whining, comforts me when I cry, hugs me when I am afraid, IS A KING! I knew that before, of course, but sometimes we get so close to something that we need to step back and get a different perspective. He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Let's take time to worship him for the the king he is. Let us take a moment this season to stop, kneel before him, and worship him. Let us remember his birthday with the reverence it deserves. I have included a commentary from Matthew Henry about the passage and it really touched my heart. I hope it speaks to you as well. Matthew Henry commentary about Mt 2:2 It was a mark of humiliation put upon the Lord Jesus that, though he was the Desire of all nations, yet his coming into the world was little observed and taken notice of, his birth was obscure and unregarded: herein he emptied himself, and made himself of no reputation. If the Son of God must be brought into the world, one might justly expect that he should be received with all the ceremony possible, that crowns and sceptres should immediately have been laid at his feet, and that the high and mighty princes of the world should have been his humble servants; such a Messiah as this the Jews expected, but we see none of all this; he came into the world, and the world knew him not; nay, he came to his own, and his own received him not; for having undertaken to make satisfaction to his Father for the wrong done him in his honour by the sin of man, he did it by denying himself in, and despoiling himself of, the honours undoubtedly due to an incarnate Deity; yet, as afterward, so in his birth, some rays of glory darted forth in the midst of the greatest instances of his abasement. Their question is, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? They do not ask, whether there were such a one born? (they are sure of that, and speak of it with assurance, so strongly was it set home upon their hearts); but, Where is he born? Note, Those who know something of Christ cannot but covet to know more of him. They call Christ the King of the Jews, for so the Messiah was expected to be: and he is Protector and Ruler of all the spiritual Israel, he is born a King. To this question they doubted not but to have a ready answer, and to find all Jerusalem worshipping at the feet of this new king; but they come from door to door with this question, and no man can give them any information. Note, There is more gross ignorance in the world, and in the church too, than we are aware of. Many that we think should direct us to Christ are themselves strangers to him. They ask, as the spouse of the daughters of Jerusalem, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? But they are never the wiser. However, like the spouse, they pursue the enquiry, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? Are they asked, "Why do ye make this enquiry?" It is because they have seen his star in the east. Are they asked, "What business have ye with him? What have the men of the east to do with the King of the Jews?" They have their answer ready, We are come to worship him. They conclude he will, in process of time, be their king, and therefore they will betimes ingratiate themselves with him and with those about him. Note, Those in whose hearts the day-star is risen, to give them any thing of the knowledge of Christ, must make it their business to worship him. Have we seen Christ's star? |