Follow the star

Those Wise Men - or Three Kings - or the Magi (lots of different titles because no one truly knows who or what Matthew was pointing to with his story of these visitors) arrive at Jesus' side as much as two years after the birth.  They have been following a star.

This means they had to wait until night fall each day to take up their journey.  It was only in the dark that they could confidently take up the journey again: not in the day light when they could see the bumps and curves up ahead, but in the dark with all its hidden obstacles and dangers.

 I have never thought about it this way before.  To get where they wanted to go, these Wise Men had to depend on the light provided by cosmic forces....or should we say God.  They had to trust in what they could not see or foresee.

One step at a time, in the dark, trusting in the Creator of the Universe to lead us to new life.  Applies to us today as well.