Meeting for Secret

One side door. One quiet corridor. Guards wey no dey ask question. Dem lead di magi enter one private room, where one king dey wait for dem, e dey smile.

King Herod don get one day wey trouble am. Foreign visitors, magi from di east, don dey ask everywhere for Jerusalem where di newborn king of di Jews dey. Herod don already call di chief priests and di teachers of di law, and dem don tell am wetin di prophet Micah write: di ruler go come from Bethlehem. Now Herod know di place. But e want know more. And e no want make anybody else know wetin e dey plan.

Matthew talk say Herod call di wise men for secret. E meet dem quietly. No be for di big open hall where people for palace dey listen, but for quiet place, far from di crowd. And there, e ask dem carefully di exact time wey di star appear. E ask well well, one question after another. When exactly una first see am? How long don pass? Herod no dey interested for di study of stars. E dey calculate how old di pikin fit be. Ruler wey don spend im whole life to hold power know how to gather information.

Then Herod send dem go, with direction. Bethlehem, just few miles go south. And e give dem one instruction, with di sweetest voice wey you fit imagine. Go search carefully for di young pikin; and when una find am, come back tell me, so dat I fit come worship am too. Search well. Find am. Come back tell me. Then I fit go worship am too. Hear how e sound like generous man. Like humble man. One old king wey want bow down before one baby.

But people wey dey read Matthew know say Herod no dey talk true. Im heart dey trouble, e no dey happy. E no get any plan to worship anybody. E want make di magi be im spies, make dem lead am straight to di pikin. Di magi, strangers for foreign land, never get reason to doubt king word. Maybe dem thank am, and comot from di palace enter di night, ready to continue dia search. Dem no know say dem carry one dangerous secret. But God know. And God dey watch over di pikin.

Secret dealings na Herod character. Di historian Josephus describe how, later for im reign, Herod stop people from meeting together, e put spies for di city and for di roads, and people even talk say e dey go out for night, dey hide im face, to hear wetin people dey talk about am. Private meeting with foreign visitors fit di kind king wey Josephus describe.

You go find Herod secret meeting for Matthew chapter two, verse seven and eight. Sweet words wey hide wicked plan, and one God wey see wetin dey hide. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Why God no only care about di words wey we dey talk, but about wetin really dey inside our heart?