Thank you! It is always amazing to me that the people of God's heart were so blinded! I am thankful every day the Jesus came for everyone in the world, not just his chosen people!
Yet I'd note too that the magi went to Bethlehem to the place where the star stopped: see Matthew 2:9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. So it seems to me that the matter is even more dialogical: the magi's own learning still comes into it: there's a confluence of their learning and scriptural testimony mutually informing one another.
Beautiful meditation on how God uses anything, but Scripture shows us who Jesus truly is. The warning about just knowing scripture only is one to be heeded, for sure.
Yes, I believe God seeks us out. I had ignored Him as a young man until I tried to kill myself to escape--or so I thought then-- the suffering of a clinical depression. But He was there for me when I finally remembered Him and saved my soul. [I have written of this in a brief memoir about both the worst and most meaningful day of my life under the title THE DAY I REMEMBERED MY SOUL by Nolo Segundo, posted online by 11 literary magazines the past 2 years].
Thank you! It is always amazing to me that the people of God's heart were so blinded! I am thankful every day the Jesus came for everyone in the world, not just his chosen people!
Yet I'd note too that the magi went to Bethlehem to the place where the star stopped: see Matthew 2:9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. So it seems to me that the matter is even more dialogical: the magi's own learning still comes into it: there's a confluence of their learning and scriptural testimony mutually informing one another.
Beautiful meditation on how God uses anything, but Scripture shows us who Jesus truly is. The warning about just knowing scripture only is one to be heeded, for sure.
Yes, I believe God seeks us out. I had ignored Him as a young man until I tried to kill myself to escape--or so I thought then-- the suffering of a clinical depression. But He was there for me when I finally remembered Him and saved my soul. [I have written of this in a brief memoir about both the worst and most meaningful day of my life under the title THE DAY I REMEMBERED MY SOUL by Nolo Segundo, posted online by 11 literary magazines the past 2 years].