Thought for Today: “A Choice to Follow”

When considering the star the wise men saw, something is often overlooked. It says they followed it. I’m sure many other people saw the same star but did nothing about it. Even those scribes and Pharisees who heard about it from the wise men didn’t go to check it out.

Maybe you’re going through dark days this Christmas, days marked by disappointment, distress, doubt, or depression. The good news, however, is that because of Christmas and Jesus’s coming, darkness doesn’t have to be the end. Instead, the light of Jesus Christ destroys and pushes back the darkness.

Jesus is the light of the world. To leave the darkness, we must follow Him. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)

It’s one thing to know about the light; it’s another to follow it. It’s one thing to know about the path; it’s an entirely different thing to follow it. I guess what I’m getting at is that it all comes down to obedience and a choice.

What will we choose this Christmas