After the wise men bestowed their gifts on Jesus they went home. They were warned to avoid King Herod in a divinely appointed dream and they obeyed. I wonder, though, how the rest of their lives played out...?
Their long journey and expedition had come to a glorious and wild end. Their worship of the King of kings was clouded by political intrigue. And now, having triumphantly fulfilled their quest, they were headed home...while the baby Jesus headed the opposite direction to Egypt to avoid Herod's bloodthirsty rage. I wonder if they would have rather stayed with and protected the new baby Messiah?
Years of studying, of calculating, and of craning their necks skyward had led them to the single most dramatic discovery of the natural world (http://www.bethlehemstar.net/). And now it was over. I wonder if they returned to their lives and were pulled into the busy-ness of their old routines; or did they ponder the outcome of that little baby Jesus and his Jewish parents?
I wonder what effect Jesus has had, does have, and will have on my life?
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