subject: Devotion [print this page] Jesus was born and put in the cribJesus was born and put in the crib. He crawled out of the crib. He died on the cross for your sins and mine. He rose again. Hes the King of kings and Lord of lords. And he confronts all of us. He wants us to give the throne of our lives to him. Were wired to worship him. Our crib, your crib and mine, is made for Christ to call the shots, for Christ to run the show.
The wise men knew there was something missing in their lives. They knew there was a hole in their hearts. They knew something was amiss, something was sideways, something wasnt right. What did they do? Well, lets keep on reading.
DEVOTION
They were into worship. And if youre into worship, youre going to be a 3-D guy or 3-D girl. The first D I want you to notice is devotion. Look at Matthew 2:11. Now these wise men showed up. On coming to the house
Let me press the pause button here. On coming to the house If you see a manger scene and you see the wise men there, that does not hold biblical water. Thats pretty and all that, but the wise men did not show up right after Jesus was born. Jesus here was already at Mothers Day Out (daycare). He was, like, two. He was. Study the Scriptures.
On coming to the house, or you could say the Christ crib, not his literal crib, but Im talking about house crib. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
I said it earlier: were made to worship. They worshiped Him. They were seeking. They were seeking because God was seeking them, and they said, Whoa, this is the answer. Im going to land here. They were true seekers and they bowed down and worshiped.
Sexperiment says that If you bow down before something, you are giving your life to it. You are saying that this is it. And that is what they did. As believers, we must have a time in our life where weve bowed before Christ and devoted our lives to him. And once we devote our lives to him, we give him the keys, we give him the reigns. We say, Take over the throne of my life. You call the shots. Youre God. Im not. And thats what was going on here in this exchange with these Magi, with these wise men. Devotion.
