Matthew 2:10 When they saw the star, they
rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
These guys were traveling to see Jesus and kept looking to the
skies, because they were told they were to follow the star to see the child who
was born that night.
Stars don’t appear until the sun sets, and the sky is dark. In fact, they are not visible at all on
cloudy nights, even if the sky is black, because they are obscured by the
clouds. But the stars will arrive at
night, because God has named them, calls them out one by one, and sets them in
his fantastic array nightly – because that’s who he is – the governor of the
universe.
I’m not a stargazer, so to speak, but I love a pretty night
sky. The prettiest one I’ve seen was in
Sheridan, Wyoming, on a summer night of July 4, just before we watched it light
up with fireworks. We were in a long
line of cars driving out in the middle of nowhere, not a tree to be seen, and
the sky was pitch black.
If’ you’re in the dark right now, the sky is cloudy and all light
is obscured, keep walking toward the direction you heard God say to you last,
and keep looking up.
The clouds will dissipate, the stars will emerge, and you will
rejoice when you see them.
What a cool way for God to lead these men to find his son, through
one of the most sure things our eyes can see and experience – the emergence of
light in the darkest of the night.
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