Trusting God's Light: The Magi's Journey to Jesus

And when they heard the king, they departed. Behold, there's a star again. The star which they had seen in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the child was. And when they saw the star, everybody said the star, the star keeps popping up, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. [00:02:43] (25 seconds)


Science tells us that light is constituted of three rays, or groups of wavelengths, distinct from each other, no one of which without the other would be light. So light, we see a light, or you see a beam of light, but it's actually three beams, three rays that makes up any source of light. [00:04:32] (23 seconds)


These magi were pagan prince, knew nothing about the God of creation, knew nothing, as we know of. They might have read the books, but put them with all the other philosophy books, book of theology, or just thought or whatever they thought that they had of it on the shelves. But regardless, they, they followed the star, and some reason or another, they followed him, and they trusted because Jesus is the shepherd, and we are the sheep, and we know his voice. That means whenever he speaks, we can hear him. [00:09:42] (43 seconds)


It's the people you think that should be listening to him or not. God has ways to get other people's attention, no matter who they are, where they are, how they are, what their background is. God took, he didn't do the Pharisee, the Sadducees, the Saints. He went directly to three pagan kings, and he got their attention. And they followed him. [00:11:34] (26 seconds)


Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your path. They followed the light. They followed the star. It doesn't sound like it was a comet because it was standing still. It don't sound like it was a meter. It was standing still. Who knows if it was a star to come and go, whatever. That star would come and it would go. The bottom line is they followed it. They never gave up on following the light. [00:12:56] (33 seconds)


get caught up in it, but whenever you're following the light, as Jesus is the light of the world, whenever you're just trusting God, you know what? This doesn't make a lick of sense. It's taken everything. I'm just going with it. I don't know anything about it. It's going to cost me my reputation. It's going to cost me things in my life. It's going to cost me friends. People are going to think I'm crazy, but you know what? I'm just going to trust God because that's who he is. They just forsook everything. [00:14:34] (32 seconds)


And these three guys, guys, boy, if they didn't know anything else, man, they knew nice, they knew expensive, they knew what was right. And they went there and when they got there, the Bible says they fell on their face and they began to worship the Lord. They began to worship Him with everything that they had. [00:15:43] (18 seconds)


so I just want to encourage you this morning number one make a decision we're going to follow the star we're going to follow the light we're just going to follow the voice of God we're just going to follow him we're going to trust in him not leaning on understanding we're going to acknowledge him he's going to direct our paths we don't know what the cost is and we don't know for how long it's going to take until we get to where we're going to get but we're going to keep on following him we're just going to keep on going we're going to move out of our comfort zone [00:17:17] (35 seconds)


Before the quest for the perfect holiday, there was a journey, a fateful, fearful passage, full of eager anticipation, following the guidance of an angel. But the light of an unmistakable star strayed towards prophesied uncertainty. Before the craziness and chaos of the holiday, there was undeniable peace. Amidst the quiet darkness of a wooden building meant for animals not a king, a baby's bed made of hay, respectful visitors, visitors in all of new life, rest, tranquility, and anxious -filled quiet. [00:20:01] (53 seconds)


An imperfectly beautiful night that granted each and every one of us the greatest, most undeserving gift of all, unconditional, ever -forgiven, all -in -compassion, unlimited, life -everlasting grace. And an unperfect place. A lifetime of the most unmerited gift made possible by the sacrifice of a newborn baby in the quiet stillness of a light -stopped stable under the majestic light of a North Star. [00:21:27] (37 seconds)


We're so completely beautiful, magnificently, solemnly, intensely, redeemingly simple, is what the author here said, was everything we look at God. Regardless of what you're going through, regardless of what you need, just remember that God sent simplicity to your life to change everything in your life. A savior set upon a cross, blood that was spilled, a body that was laid to rest so that we can be wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the punishment of our peaks was placed upon him and by his stripes were healed. It was anguish, it was hard, but it was simple. [00:23:04] (43 seconds)