This is nothing about romantic nor soap opera's love movies. Its also not about an unanimous mingle that strolls along your mind when you think about 'touch'.
Its Christmas time guys. I just need to share with you a bit about the Wise Men (some call them as The Magi) from the East and how they spent their entire lives in astronomy and encountered the uniqueness of a star above the middle east sky two thousand years ago.
The story of a visit of wise men to the Christ Child is told in the bible in Mathhew 2:1 tells us: "...Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." This Bible passage doesn't state how many wise men actually came from the east nor does it mention their names or their method of travel. It is only assumed they traveled by camel and they could have easily traveled by foot. The Bible doesn't claim these men to be kings, however it is speculated they were at least learned men and perhaps even astrologers.
It is interesting to note that in Matthew 2:11 it states: ...and when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped HIM..." The statement of coming into a house instead of a stable (or cave) and seeing a "young child," not a newborn, leads one to think that the wise men didn't arrive until quite some time after Jesus' birth. It is believed that the wise men came from the east by following a bright star that led them to to Bethlehem.
What most interesting for me is that the wise men, who ever they were and no matter how many fellows joining their journey; it shows me that God knows how to talk to you personally. In the wise men's case, God talks to them through the star. When they do their routine work as the astronomers watching the stars with their less sophisticated than today's observatory equipments they saw something unusual. It must be begin by one of the three seeing a strange bright star and end up telling their friends all about it. One night they saw this bizarre and obvious as well as distinguished star stop by atop Betlehem's night sky. Then this led them into a further investigation and search through their bibliography and found it is a once in a lifetime's sign that a King of kings is born.
I imagine that in our today's culture, they must have got their own facebook group or mailing list to share this new finding and start to pop out the idea of going to where the star stops. And it all ends up when they finally go to Betlehen, and got to the 'city of David' approximately two years later. There they meet the child and worshiped Him.
Did you see what I see? God touches the wise men through their profession and their personal interest. The reflection is if this year or this time you know someone who doesn't know about God and the salvation, God might be having a plan to let someone else knows about HIM through you. Are you a professional, a non professional, a merely layman, God can accommodate you to be the person to introduce God to others.
Have you wonder? Its simply because God knows how to touch you and those who know you in such a way.
Let Him touch others in His way! And you guys, just do what you can. If you can be of an example of a Chris follower, do so.
Merry Christmas
Jakarta, end of December 2009
God touches men the way the men most appropriate to be touched.
