January 7 - On Three Special Gifts

Thought-Random:

     

        Day after the Christmas Season and a lot of the festive decors still remain . Colorful lights still hang,  Merry representations of Frosty and Santa still stand. But most compelling of discernment for me, which I still notice, is the reenactment of the Nativity:  the Baby Jesus laid in a manger, Mary and Joseph in loving watch,  animals in the stable, shepherds in adoration, but most interesting would be the three kings paying homage with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

        Gold, frankincense, and myrrh - these bespeak of the Christ Child to whom these presents were offered. Christianity being replete with symbolism, these three are said to be just a few of such an ocean of  symbols. Gold to proclaim the majestic kingship of Christ, our Lord;  -frankincense to assert his divinity.... to affirm the fact that we adore Him as our God;  -and myrrh, to underscore His humanity... His oneness with us because He dies as a man after exteme suffering if only to save us and bring us back to His kingdom in heaven.

        The Christmas Season starts with the first Sunday of Advent and ends with the first Sunday of January, the feast of the Epiphany - the feast of the Three Kings. So it starts with the anticipation of the coming of the Savior and ends with the visit of these three wise men who bring Him three gifts that project to us who exactly this Savior is that had just come to us!