First and foremost, I would like to
wish all of you a very Merry Christmas! The Lord has blessed me in
many ways, and the Christmas season is always a great reminder of
that, especially when it comes to family and friends. All I have to
do is look at my families fridge to see wonderful Christmas photos of
different families we know, and it brings much joy to me.
Besides being very thankful for all my
friends and family, I have been spending this time of Advent
reflecting on The Nativity, the Birth of Christ. I thought about
writing this whole blog on it, on that specific birth, but I decided
to go a different path. I know most of my friends have a good
understanding and love for the real meaning of Christmas, the beauty
that is the birth of Christ, and because of that, I have decided I
want to focus on something that sometimes gets forgotten in this
wonderful story, that being the Three Wise Men. I know the Epiphany is
not celebrated for a few more days, but I think the Wise Men are
something that we, as Christians, can relate to.
There is not much known about the Three
Wise Men, as they only appear in the Gospel of Matthew, but the basics
are known- they were three Magi coming from the East and they went to
Jerusalem for one sole purpose, which was to give homage to the King
of the Jews (Matt 2:2). They had been following a star in the sky,
and it eventually led them to Bethlehem. When they finally arrived,
they offered the newborn child Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, and
gave him homage. Their whole story is only twelve verses in the whole
bible (Matt 2:1-12). With so little known about them, and with such a
small part, why have I chose to speak about them?
Really, because of that small role. I
am not able to truly do justice to the “baby in the crib” but the
Wiseman, I think I can talk a little about them. And I mean, just a
little.
These three men, which have been my
background on my Macbook for a few weeks now, where just Men. They
were nothing more. Just as the Shepherds, they came and visited the
Christ, and gave him homage and gifts. I think this is suppose to be
how we are.
Look at it like this. The Wise Men
travelled a great distance to see the Lord. We, just like the
Wise Men, must travel great distances through life, and eventually, we
hope and pray to see the Lord, and then we too can give him homage,
when we celebrate in Eternal Happiness with him. The gifts they bring
and present to him? We too have been given gifts in our life, also
known as our special talents, and we must give these to the Lord as
often as possible, must use them for his greater Glory. It may seem
that our gifts are more like the Shepherds, almost non-existent, and
not flashy as Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, but the Lord meets us
where we are at, and as long as our gifts are being used for his
greater glory, and our sincere, then the Lord is happy.
In closing, we must remember that
Christmas does not end after the 25th of December, but
continues on in our every day lives. The Lord is always calling us on
to grow closer to him, if we only accept his love and graces. The Baby Jesus lay in a Manger this Christmas.
Will you go and give him Homage? Do it by the way you live.
"He died for me, so I must live for him."
