Glory Seed Devotionals, 2015: Year of Promise
Advent 2015: The Arrival…

“After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.” (Matthew 2:9–10, ESV)

Over the years I’ve heard and read many different theories as to what the “Star of Bethlehem” really was. The one that seems to be to incredible is the one that suggests it was a slow moving UFO. (By the way I just made that one up.) To those who have tried to explain it away and see it as an Unidentified Flying Object that needs to be defined and explained bring up a couple of questions. Why do people always need an explanation for some things that reveal a hidden truth? Don’t they know when they expend their energy and time trying to explain away a mystery they’ll miss the meaning of the mystery?

Now I am not an expert at the movement of planets and stars, nor am I a professional at mathematics but I am an expert at the movement of God (at least in my life). It is my expert opinion that the UFO followed by the Wisemen that night long ago was the Light of the Holy Spirit sent by God to lead them to Jesus. I know this to be true because the Light of the Holy Spirit has been leading me for over 69 years through “valleys”, “rivers”, “storms”, “hopelessness”, “helplessness,” and even “sunny days”. And I’ll bet you can say the same thing about your life as well, can’t you?

So the next time someone tries to define the Star of Bethlehem as a UFO please set them straight and tell them it’s not a UFO instead it’s the Light of the Holy Spirit! And please remind them that God is so clever at hiding His works in natural phenomenon that it doesn’t take “rocket science” see the Holy Spirit at work!

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might!
Grace and PEACE, Amen!
Gary

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“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10, ESV)

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