Never a Birth Announcement Like This One
We’ve all received “Birth Announcements” from friends and family telling us about their new “pride and joy”. But can you imagine a birth that a mere photo or card could not contain the magnificence and grandeur of THIS birth? Not even a baby born to England’s royal family received this sort of announcement. This announcement was so colossal that all you had to do was look up at the sky and you saw it. And, that, my friends, is the way God rolls. Of course, that’s the way that He Who created the heavens and the earth, and all that’s in it, would announce the birth of His SON!
What a MASTER Plan — put ONE special star in the sky to let us know that He was giving us mere mortals the STAR OF THE SHOW! Oh, there were always plenty of stars that lit up the skies to declare His glory and His grand and majestic creation, but THIS night, He placed a brilliant, glorious STAR there that would point the way to the ONE TRUE LIGHT. All other stars in the sky, and all those who THINK they are “stars” on this earth, pale in comparison to that ONE TRUE STAR.
And this STAR, was also a travel guide that gave directions to the maji and led them to where THE STAR lived. Those Wise Men knew that this STAR was the promised gift from heaven. Yes, they brought gifts to Him to show their worship, but they went away KNOWING their gifts were insignificant to the GIFT He gave them. They received HOPE for their future, JOY for their journey, PEACE for their soul, and LOVE that exceeded anything or anyone.
And the foremost point of this post today is….. that ONE TRUE LIGHT shines ever so brightly for us — leading and guiding us. Yes, this world has lots of darkness in it, but no worries — because THE STAR and LIGHT shines brighter than EVER. And, like the Wise Men leaving wih greater gifts than they brought to Him, that HOPE, JOY, PEACE, and LOVE are our gifts, too, FREELY given, and as we stay close to the STAR’s brilliant LIGHT, and accept HIS gifts to us, we’ll NEVER be in darkness.