Are you star seekers?
Are you star seekers? Are you seeking the Light?
" I am the Light of the world" spoke our Lord Jesus in St John's Gospel 8:12. He is our Bright and Morning Star, Revelation 22:16 - "I am the root and the offspring of David, and the Bright and Morning Star."
That Bright and Morning Star is to guide us through the dark night....and then what? In 2 Peter1:19, He becomes our Day Star, our Sun, our brightest light in a field of light: "..whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Day Star arise in your hearts."
We take tremendous hope from His Word of Righteousness - Malachi 4:2 "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings..." Are you following the Bright and Morning Star through your dark night - looking for that blessed hope and appearing of the Day Star?
We must tarry till He comes. But we must at the same time be the lower lights of Him. Our lowest heavenly body which provides us light is the moon. We are like that lower light, our light is reflected light from the great Sun of our source of light which is our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
The following poem I wrote for the Advent Season, but it is just as surely relevant at all seasons, because all seasons are seasons of the Lord:
VOYAGE OF THE STAR SEEKERS
from Logos of St Andrew Winter 99
Across the desert plains they came,
By wise men gifts were Borne,
From distant eastern lands of Fame,
They journeyed on with Light adorned.
They sought for news at Herod's throne,
But no such word was heard -
Of king or priest it was not known -
The STAR foretold Messiah's Birth!
The STAR stopped over Bethlehem,
A stable yard the Scene.
A manger held the precious One.
The cold, night air was keen.
The gifts of Frankincense and Myrrh
and Gold were offered then.
The stable yard was all Astir
With beasts, and Love and Men.
So strange in royal palace grand
No Christ child was revealed;
But then in Ramah's humble sand
The eastern kings had Kneeled.
The ages since are lost in Time,
But time no burdens cast
Upon the minds of all Mankind -
The STAR outshines the Past!
by jerry ogles
