“Wise men still seek him” is a Christmas cliché, and it’s a good one. It’s a story usually left for the feast day of epiphany in January, yet it remains intimately tied to Christmas, and I believe intimately connected to Global Scholars.
For the wise men were global scholars, too, and they had an epiphany—a moment of discovery about God and his promises. By what methods did this discovery come about?
First, through a star, the creation itself, which they observed and reasoned about. Then through other people, who in turn brought them to the scriptures, which pointed to their destination in Bethlehem. Additionally, they were warned in a dream, their own experience and conscience, to go back by another route. Today, we might say their divine discovery came through astronomy, geography, inter-disciplinary dialogue, theology, and psychology. Theologians might just sum it all up as general and special revelation in concert, the “two books” of God’s revelation.
The most vivid and miraculous discovery of God, of course, was in the Christ-child himself, in whom “all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17).
Global scholars, men and women, still seek him. We hope and pray that you, too, this season, will discover God anew in myriad ways.
In expectation,
Peter Schuurman
