“All Roads Lead to Rome.”
No they don’t. All roads lead to Jesus.
Turn with me to Matthew 2:9-11 and read the Ancient Anointed Words:
“And the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the Child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.”
Each year at Christmas, these words grip me. The time has come to take another penetrating look into the journey of these kings.
The Wise Men moved in a relentless pursuit of their mission. Their eagerness urged them onward; they pushed and they pressed. But when they arrived, they stopped! Why? Because the search was over. They recognized Him when they found Him — "who was and is and is to come.” (Rev.4:8) The star stopped and so did they.
Two thousand years later, modernisms tempt us to let our roads to lead to Rome—to search the Internet for satisfaction, to text the tribe for affirmation, to turn to Tik Tok for distraction. Yet, what the star showed the Wise Men, it still shows us. Stop. The search is over.
All roads lead to Rome. No. No they don’t, not at all. All roads lead to Jesus.
“His name is Jesus, Jesus,
Sad hearts weep no more.
He has healed the broken hearted;
Opened wide the prison doors.
He is able to deliver evermore.”
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“And this is eternal life, that they may know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom You have sent” (John 17:3).
How are you celebrating with joy the reality that the star stopped?
