Can we turn the world over?

My Sunday Scripture 2010.1.3


After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, suddenly some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east

asking, 'Where is the infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.'

When King Herod heard this he was perturbed, and so was the whole of Jerusalem.

He called together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born.

They told him, 'At Bethlehem in Judaea, for this is what the prophet wrote:

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, you are by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel.'

Then Herod summoned the wise men to see him privately. He asked them the exact date on which the star had appeared

and sent them on to Bethlehem with the words, 'Go and find out all about the child, and when you have found him, let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage.'

Having listened to what the king had to say, they set out. And suddenly the star they had seen rising went forward and halted over the place where the child was.

The sight of the star filled them with delight,

and going into the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

But they were given a warning in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.

Saint Matthew 2:1-12



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My reading notes:
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Jesus had come to the world for two thousand years. He had brought us the good news:

That we must love one another. But for two thousand years, we have done very very little. Do we love one another? Do we have good political and economic systems to support love? Do we have enough knowledge to handle human matters and keep us in a loving environment?

May be the political and economic matters are not the most important. But how are we to spread love?

It might be a very simple way. Starting from ourselves.

Can we, by a very strong sense of love, turn the world over?