“Where is the child who has been born to be king of the Jews?”

A thought by Various Authors (2010-02-23) from the Holy Bible (NIrV) for Adults (Kindle Location 63105). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Here is the context of this question. It is found in Matthew 2:1-4 (NIrV). It says, “After Jesus’ birth, Wise Men from the east came to Jerusalem. They asked, ‘Where is the child who has been born to be king of the Jews? When we were in the east, we saw his star. Now we have come to worship him.’”

These guys were from a different country and through their search they had read that a child was going to be born who was going to make a major difference. Through an unbelievable experience they had found out that it was now happening so they had come to find him. They had made it this far but they still didn’t know where he was so they came to King Herold to ask him. But he was the wrong person to ask.

Where do you go for answers to your important questions? Do you just sit down in a quiet place and think on your own and come up with an answer?

I love to read. I have read 23 different books in 2014. I find a lot of my answers from other people. But I start every day in one book and that is the Bible. That is where these guys had found out about Jesus. They had been reading in what we now call the Old Testament and they had found the prophecy that a promised child was to be born. That was where they started but then they had a practical question to ask but they asked the wrong person. Now that didn’t deter them. They went somewhere else and found the answer.

They thought surely the King will have the answer but he didn’t. He did find the answer as to who this young child was and he didn’t like it. His chief priests told him that the scriptures said that he was to be a ruler. So he also had a question and he found the answer in the Bible.

The Bible is a good place to start to have the main questions of your life answered. Why not start there. You will see that it will make a difference in your life. You might not sometimes like the answer as Herold found but you will find it to be the truth and if you follow it it will make all the difference in your life.

So where do you go for your answers?

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