After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, the wise men went back by another route to their own country.
The Apostle Matthew, Matthew 2:12
The wise men sought something beyond their experience. They had seen in the stars that God would send a King to the Jews. They struck out to seek this one that God sent. They did what was wise, they responded to the light that they had been given. Even on their way home they responded to the truth they had encountered, they took a major risk and tricked King Herod because they were warned in a dream.
God gives each of us a certain amount of light. We are responsible for the light or truth that we have been given. In your life when you encounter deeper truth, a clearer light, respond accordingly.
Our hope for you today is that you set your heart to respond to the light that you have been given.
Trust And Obey
When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will,
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil he doth richly repay;
not a grief or a loss,
not a frown or a cross,
but is blest if we trust and obey.
But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favor he shows,
for the joy he bestows,
are for them who will trust and obey.
Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at his feet,
or we’ll walk by his side in the way;
what he says we will do,
where he sends we will go;
never fear, only trust and obey.
With much love, 
The Downings
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