Day Twenty-four: The star witness for the world

Day Twenty-four: The star witness for the world

Psalm 8:1-4
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?

An old man stood on the crest of a ridge - the night was very dark and clear. The sky shimmered, each star a precise pin point of light. The moon a clear full disc rising late beyond distant hills. Beside him was a child. The man pointed into the night sky and asked the child "There, what do you see?" "Where? Where grandpa?" "There" he pointed again "Right there." "I see the tip of your finger" was the child's reply...

God placed each star in the night sky. At the birth of Jesus He placed a particular star in the sky. How marvelous was that? How awesomely wonderful! How do we, wise people, respond to this majestic fact? We look for an explanation. Isn't that odd that so many of us search for a finite cause for this infinite event? Was it a comet? Was it the conjunction of planets? Wasn't it a miracle - an expression in the finite of the infinite nature of our marvelous God?

In the time of King Herod how did the wise respond to that star? The foolish thought to thwart God and undermine what He spoke through the prophets. The wise observed His star, were overwhelmed with joy and knelt humbly in worship before the Christ Child. The wise did not ask why the star? The wise looked beyond the star to the Creator and saw His love for us; and they were filled with Joy.

The wise across all the ages have journeyed to know the Christ. The wise still seek Him even to this very day.

..."I see the tip of your finger" was the child's reply. "Your eyes must see beyond the finger tip" the old man smiled "and beyond the stars to the very heart of the Creator. Seek the One who breathed life; these stars are the workmanship of His fingers. And when you see Him then you will ask me: 'Why grandpa, why did He do that?' Then my child you will begin life's great journey; a journey to know the great Joy God gave us in His Christ" - the Christ of Christmas."

1 Corinthians 1:18-12 "For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.” Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish? For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching. For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom, but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength."