"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him." Matt 2:2 (WEB)
When God wants to do something important He shows a sign. When Jesus was born, a star led the Three wise men to the manger where he was born. This is why we have to be spiritually alert and mindful, so that we do not miss the sign that a thing is about to happen or has happened or is happening.
The three wise men saw the sign and followed it. Even though Israel was given the sign and the birth was foretold, they missed it because they did not use the knowledge. We do not pay enough attention to the knowledge and observation of the times; hence we find it hard to move on and to excel.
Something great was happening in Israel and the children of Israel did not even know about it. We said in one of our previous posts that life is a journey and that end of a journey is more important than how we started that journey.
It is important to lay the right foundation for a journey by being focused and speaking into the journey to ensure that the focus and outcome for the journey will manifest and be successful.
Habakkuk said “I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. Hab 2:1 (WEB)”
A lot of us take too many things for granted and those things we take for granted end up as that important thing which matters. We must talk to God without stopping or hesitating. We must lay a solid foundation for our journey through life.
We must avoid trouble. The bible says Herod was troubled and as soon as the wise men saw this they avoided him. We are to not wine and dine with those things and persons that would give us trouble. We must not tolerate trouble and all those things that appears as trouble. There are some people who do not add value to your life, do not benefit you, people who frustrate you, people who don’t add value to your life; avoid these types of people.
Why do we need to avoid trouble? Trouble would take your focus away from the sign that God is about to do something great in your life. In some cases, when we dine with trouble we become distant from the opportunities that we would otherwise have seen and made good of.
God has given us the greatest sign to men...........Christ was born as messiah!
