Restless The Podcast

  As children I remember my mom setting up the manger scene. It included magi riding on these chrome looking camels. With five kids in the house they all had seen better days. Some had their legs glued on. One of them was missing a leg…they all seemed like they had been on an incredibly long journey involving great risk.

The Magi traveled a great distance. It’s believed that their journey began somewhere in Persia, perhaps northern Iraq or what is today Iran. A journey of that distance would take 9-12 months and could only be traversed by skilled and well prepared travelers. The desert was harsh and unforgiving.

Perhaps the most puzzling consideration of the journey of the Magi is why they even began it in the first place. They were armed with only a few pieces of information 

1. Ancient prophecy that foretold of a King being born in Bethlehem. (see Micah 5:2)

2. A star “that they had seen in the east).

     3.  a conviction despite the risks, to go.

Only 6 miles away in Jerusalem the reaction to the same news was startling different.

To Herod the king he was angered consumed by his intoxication with power and influence he would soon seek the child’s life.

To the religious leaders so engrossed by their rituals and legalisms they were indifferent...not to be bothered.

Yet to the Magi who with little information, endured great risks, traveled a great distance, made the journey to the divine and adored the Christ child, the son God who would forever make it possible for man to once again walk with His creator.

Today we have much more information than all of them and yet 2 thousand years later the most important question still remains…will you go? 

The journey is hard, long and the cost are high....will you go?