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Day 3 – Matthew 2:1-15 Your level of joy at Christmas is directly related to where you look. We learn from the wise men that there are right and wrong places to look for Christmas. They started by looking in the wrong place. They looked where their own human reasoning said they should look. The star indicated the birth of a new king in Israel. The magi went where kings should be born - to the palace of Herod the Great in the capital city of Jerusalem. But what a mistake! When Herod heard of the birth of a new king, his jealousy sought to kill him. We, too, are tempted to look for joy at Christmas in the wrong places. However, the wise men looked in the right place when they looked to God. The trip to Jerusalem was not a total loss. While there, they discovered where they should have looked in the first place: the Bible. The scribes in Jerusalem said that, “according to the prophet Micah, the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem”. With this new information, they looked again at the star and followed it to Bethlehem until it stood over the house where the child, Jesus, lived. You cannot find Jesus, the real Jesus, apart from the Word of God. Few seek Him there and few find Him! #247daily
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