However, we can gladly sacrifice these small discomforts since we know that our physical position can help lead us into a spiritual position of worship. So, these actions can feel foreign and uncomfortable. There aren’t many contexts in which we put ourselves in positions of worship-like kneeling to pray or raising our hands while singing. Here are four things worship will often cost us: 1 // Comfort So, if worship is costly and requires our personal sacrifice, what will your worship cost you? It’s important to ask ourselves this question because the less our worship costs, the more likely it is we’re doing something other than worship. And, knowing the end of the story, it cost them their safety as well. It didn’t only cost them money, but also time, energy, and effort.
Then, once they arrived to meet Jesus, they presented him with gifts not reasonably priced baby gifts from a registry, but royal gifts befitting a king. It’s clear that the worship of the magi was costly. The Bible tells us that they “came from the east” to Jerusalem, which was undoubtedly no short journey in an air-conditioned four-door sedan. “We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him,” they told King Herod. The more important thing about them than their job though was why they wanted to find this newborn king.
You may be familiar with them as “magi” or “kings”, but we may better understand them today as magicians practicing astrology, attempting to understand the world through reading the signs in the stars. In Matthew 2, we’re introduced to three men who were seeking Jesus.
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