God wants us to seek Him. This is not because He is lazy, but because He is already waiting on us. God will never force Himself on us, but He waits on us with open arms. Luke 11:9-10 quotes Jesus saying, 9 So I say to you: ask and it will be given to you; Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be open to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be open. Once we open ourselves up to to God, He floods us with His leading and guiding in our lives, but we must first seek Him and expect Him to act.

What struck me in today’s reading is the number of times prophecy was fulfilled. Three different times in this chapter Matthew identifies things that were mentioned hundreds of years before. First, where the Messiah would be born, which Matthew quoted from Micah 5:2. Second, was the fulfillment of the killing of children from Jeremiah 31:15 Then third, though the Old Testament prophets never specifically said “Nazarene”, scholars believe Matthew is referring to Isaiah 11:1 where the Hebrew word for “branch” is similar to the word Nazarene or maybe he is referring to a prophecy which is not recorded in the Bible. None the less, Matthew paints the picture of Jesus as the true Messiah, announced by God through the prophets, who came from humble beginnings just as the Old Testament predicted.