Good morning boys and
girls!
Did you have a good
Christmas? Did you get lots of gifts?
Did
any of you go on a trip over Christmas?
How did you get there? Did you have to get directions? How did you get
them? Did you ask someone? Did you go online and get directions? Did your
parents use a GPS system or a map?
A
long time ago there were some people who went on a journey. Can anyone guess
who they were? They were the Three Wise Men. Let me tell you the story.
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After Jesus was born, some wise men, also called
Magi, saw a star in the sky which they believed announced the birth of a
king. They traveled to Jerusalem and began to ask, "Where is the newborn
king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose, and we have come to worship
him."
Herod heard about the Magi and their search for a
king and he was deeply disturbed. He called a meeting of the priests and
teachers of religious law and asked, "Where is the Messiah supposed to
be born?" The priests told Herod that the prophet Micah had written that
the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem. So Herod called for private meeting
with the wise men and said to them, "Go to Bethlehem and search
carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that
I can go and worship him, too!"
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The
Wise Men didn’t have a map or the Internet or a GPS system. They had something
even better to guide them. They had a star.
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So the wise men followed information that the
priests had given to Herod and the star that God had given to guide them and
it led them right to Jesus. When they found him, they gave him gifts and
bowed down and worshiped him.
Wise men, women, boys, and girls are still
searching for Jesus. There are people who want to help -- people like pastors
and Sunday School teachers. There is no map to help us find Jesus and there
is no star to follow, but we do have the Bible. We can find the way to Jesus
by reading God's Holy Word! The Bible is the map and star that will lead to
Jesus. All of us should read it every day to make sure we are headed in the
right direction!
Let’s close our eyes and bow out heads for a
moment of prayer. Dear Jesus, we seek you today because we want to worship
you and crown you as our King. We are thankful for pastors and Sunday School
teachers who want to help us and we are thankful for the Bible which we have
been given to lead us to you. Amen.
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