Matthew 2:1-12 describes a lone star appearing in the sky at the time of Jesus birth.  Seeing the star, the three wise men who knew the prophecies concerning the Messiah

came to Jerusalem seeking the location of the newborn King of the Jews.

News of the birth of Jesus scared Herod, the threaten King called a meeting of Jewish religious leaders.  These leaders also knew prophecy and they told the King that Bethlehem was the place where Jesus was born.

Herod met the wise men telling them to go to Bethlehem and search for the child. He added when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him too. However, the frighten King had no intention of worshiping the baby, he was using the wise men to confirm the location so he could have Jesus killed. 

When the wise men started out again the star appeared shining over Bethlehem and when they saw it their joy knew no bounds, 

Entering the house where the baby and Mary, his mother, were, the wise men threw themselves down before him in worship. Then they opened their presents and gave him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 

But when they returned to their own land, the wise men didn’t go through Jerusalem to report to Herod, for God had warned them in a dream to go home another way.

As we start a new year there will be great temptation to hitch our start to the galaxy of other stars who follow the same path.  However, we need to be like the wise men taking God’s instruction to go another way.   For when go another way we flee the evil of Herod and instead bask in the light of God’s lone star of rightness.   

Let’s go another way. 

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