Epiphanies Await the Diligent!

Just as the wise men were guided to Bethlehem by scripture, King Herod also sought Scripture but with bad intent. We need scripture to find our way to Jesus. It was scripture that got the wise men to the specific place that Jesus was. It is scripture that will conclude our journey as well.

We can say that we will dedicate our work to God. We can say that we use our hobbies as a way of worshiping God. Those will surely show our service to God. But it will be through scripture that we are delivered to the birth-place of Jesus in our hearts.

This new year, as you receive your personal epiphanies and many they may be, use not only your own history,  not only your own past understanding of the world,  also use scripture that you may be faithfully and accurately delivered to Jesus.

Let us not maintain, as did Herod, Pilate, and the Pharisees, our own comfortable understanding of scripture. Let us allow scripture to enlighten us, even challenge us in our understanding that we may grow closer to Jesus.

I am convinced that Scriptural epiphanies await the diligent!