The star which called them to offer themselves to Our Blessed Lord in Bethlehem seems far more out of the ordinary to us than it did to them.  They would have been surprised only by its unusual appearance for it occurred as part of their everyday work.  In the same way our call to give ourselves to God rarely comes in an out of the way manner.  The star that beckons us to Christ appears in many of the usual happenings of our daily life: perhaps it is some inward prompting too insistent to be ignored, or the influence of someone we admire or respect; or perhaps some chance remark may put into words what we have long known in our hearts to be true and forbids us to hesitate any longer.

But whatever form the star may take it beckons us to follow it to the end.  There are many who are grudging and half-hearted and follow it only part of the way; who set out to find Our Lord, but who fail in their search because they refuse to give themselves to him completely; who get as far as Jerusalem but never find Bethlehem.  The Wise Men pressed on to Bethlehem because their search for the King of kings meant more to them than anything else in the world.