When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy (Matthew 2:10 NKJV)

We’re thinking this week about lights associated with the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Today’s light is the star that guided the wise men to where the Lord Jesus was.  Yesterday we thought of how through the Lord Jesus, God revealed Himself to not only the Jews but to the Gentiles also (in other words, the whole world) and here is a case in point.  These men had seen the star many miles away (we’re not told exactly where they came from) and had followed it so they could worship the One that was born King of the Jews (which is a title of the Lord Jesus).  They had gone looking for Him in the king’s palace but He wasn’t there.  The Lord Jesus wasn’t born into luxury or splendour but rather he was born into poverty.  He lived a life of humility in an ordinary family with the ultimate purpose of going to the cross to suffer and bleed and die for the sins of the world.  At His first coming He didn’t come as a king (although the Bible says one day He will) but rather He came as a servant to do the will of God.  He once said of Himself that “the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many “ (Matthew 20:28).  The star led the wise men to exactly where the Lord Jesus was and we are told that they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.  They had found the Saviour and there is no greater joy than finding the Lord Jesus Christ and putting your trust in Him.