Adorning the Darkness - Week 3
In the beginning of Matthew’s story, we meet one of the great villains of the Bible - a power-crazed, politically serpentine megalomaniac named Herod. He has been installed by Rome as the “king of the Jews.” But. He’s not. He’s not the proper king. There is another. And in a shocking turn, some non-Jewish, pagan astrologers - some learned men from a nation very far away in the East - travel a great distance to tell Herod this truth. And in the process, we learn that God is up to something, and that the people who we’d think *should* see Jesus clearly don’t, and the people we’d never expect it do. And in the end, the story is a mirror, asking us a tough question. Are we more like Herod - busy building our own kingdoms - or are we like the Magi, willing to forego a great deal of comfort to respond to the incredible invitation of God to worship this baby, the King of All Kings.
