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| REST STOP #3: Guarding the truth and guarding it well When we think of the original characters in our grand Advent drama, we don’t usually include the scribes and the chief priests of Matthew 2:1-12. What was the first Christmas like for them? Matthew leaves several narrative gaps in the story. We don’t know with certainty what these men did or did not do. But if we could guess … if we could fill in the gaps … what would we say? Put yourself in this man’s shoes: You glance around your office and let out a big sigh. It’s the end of a long day and the end of a long week. Your floor is stacked with piles of unfinished business. Well, at least it can’t get any worse. Two more minutes and you will be on your way home. Just in time to prepare for Sabbath and then—rest. There’s a knock at your door. “Come in.” But you grit your teeth against—this inconvenience. You grit your teeth against your own fatigue. It’s one of your messenger boys. Shouldn’t he be running home himself by now? His face looks flushed and yet pale, all at the same time. “Have you heard the news? Some foreigners are in town, magicians, wise men, they call themselves, studying all the deviltry like the sweep of the stars and the” Continued... |
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