God Chose The Magi First

God chose the Magi to first worship Jesus.

Not the religious leaders.

Not the Pharisees.

Not the people who had spent their lives studying the Scriptures.

The Magi.

When I really stopped and thought about who they were,

it honestly humbled me.

Because in my own natural thinking,

I do not know that I would have received them.

These were men from backgrounds the religious world would not have approved of.

Yet somehow,

they recognized Jesus.

That does not mean God approves of everything they practiced.

Scripture is clear about sorcery, divination, and seeking power apart from God.

But it does reveal the sovereignty of God.

Because the religious leaders had the Scriptures.

The Magi had a star.

And the ones who were searching came hungry enough to bow.

That really made me think about how we receive people.

Jesus never compromised truth.

But He also never pushed away hungry people.

He carried light into dark places without becoming darkness Himself.

Sometimes I wonder if we spend so much time trying to identify what is wrong with people

that we miss what God may be doing in them.

True discernment is not fear.

It is not suspicion.

It is not seeing demons in every room.

True discernment comes from walking with the Holy Spirit.

It recognizes the difference between compromise

and someone being drawn by God.

The Magi remind me that God does not think like we think.

He sees deeper.

He sees hunger.

He sees hearts that are searching.

And honestly,

maybe many of us have read this story our whole lives

without ever really stopping to think about who the Magi were at all.

But when I did,

it made me stop,

reflect,

and check my own heart.

How about you?