we don’t know what tomorrow holds - or next week - or this next year. but we know that when we are in HIS hands, HE does lead, and HE will guide each step if we will let HIM. JESUS said, “I will not leave you alone. I will send you the COMFORTER, the HOLY SPIRIT, to guide you into all truth.”
so we have GOD’s SPIRIT to lead us day by day, dwelling within us - on the throne of our lives - leading and directing and guiding each step. even so, wise men of every generation have been DIVINEly led, listening to and heeding the word of GOD day by day.
but let us look to the wise men as they were preparing to leave their homes and follow the star.
can you just imagine how their neighbors reacted? “oh, are you going on a journey?” “yes, we are.” “where are you going?” “we don’t know.” “well, how long are you going to be gone?” “we don’t know.”
“what are you going to do when you get there, wherever it is?” “we are going to worship the KING.” “what KING?” “we don’t know.” “why are you going?” “we are going because we have read the scriptures, and we have seen a star in the sky, and we have a strange stirring within our hearts to go.”
i imagine those neighbors shook their heads and said, “and we call you, ‘wise men’? how foolish to take off on a journey, not knowing where you are going, or what you are going to find when you get there, or how long you are going to be gone.”
yet, the journey of faith always has those characteristics.
just a thought from the front porch as we look toward the new year…
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