When they [the Magi] had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Matthew 2:13-15 (NIV)
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi [i.e. when Herod realized the Magi weren’t coming back to share the location of the newborn king of the Jews], he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
Matthew 2:16 (NIV)
“The evil that we do in our present condition is a reflection of a weakness caused by spiritual starvation.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives.
Are you spiritually starving or are you being spiritually nourished?
We have a responsibility to be the light in a dark and spiritually deprived world.
What will you choose?