Advent Day 20 - Warned About Herod

 

Matthew 2:7-8 and 12

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

There is a darkness in the world

That ate at Herod’s heart.

He heard word of the Savior’s birth,

And was jealous to start.

He wanted no one to call king,

That child of prophecy.

As if, by denying Christ that,

He could not make it not be.

But those he sent to find the child

And tell him where He lay,

Were wise enough to heed God’s call.

They slipped, quickly, away.

This photo is another kind gift from Chloe Phillips-Harris: Chloe Phillips-Harris: Adventurer and The Great Nomad Expedition (Both on FaceBook)