Kings vs. Wizards
8 January 2012
Feast of the Epiphany (observed, transferred from 6 January)
8 a.m. Spoken Mass; 10:00 a.m. Sung Mass
Trinity Episcopal Church
Ashland,Oregon
Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12; Psalm 72:1-7,10-14
After Jesus was born in Bethlehemin Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalemand asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalemwith him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
“‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehemand said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. (Matthew 2:1-12)
God, take away our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh. Amen.
One of my dearest friends once told me that he at times just could not work up faith in God. “I was raised as a Christian and went to Church as a boy. I was an acolyte. I was an Eagle Scout. But when I look at the world, it’s really hard for me to believe in God. I’d like to have a simple faith, but there just seems to be too much wrong out there to have a good and loving God behind it all. Part of what is wrong with the world is me, I admit, ‘cuz I’m no angel. I’d like to have faith, but seem just not able. Does that make me a bad person?”
Here was a man who had on occasion tasted God’s grace and love, but found it hard to, as he put it, “believe in God.” Other dear friends of mine are a little more aggressive in their unbelief: reacting to abusive Church authority or dishonesty in not acknowledging the obstacles to faith, they believe there is no such thing as God, and that faith and religion are harmful atavisms that need to be rooted out.
Our scriptures today are those for the Feast of Epiphany, which took place on January 6. The church is thus still greened for “Three Kings’ Sunday.” Epiphany celebrates the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Early Jewish Christians saw this as the manifestation of Christ to the unbelievers.
Today’s Gospel tells the story of strange figures from the East arriving in Jerusalem seeking the child born “King of the Jews.” The visitors are called Magoi (Latin: Magi). The Greek word often describes Persian astrologers or diviners, or even Zoroastrian priests. The word is related to our word “magician” and always is tinged with Mystery and the Occult. Probably the best translation for it is Wizards.
We don’t know how many of the Wizards arrive; we usually number them as three because that is how many gifts they bring: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
We usually say they are kings because of the passages we read today from Isaiah and Psalm 72, where foreign kings bring gifts and tribute to the Ideal King of the Future.
All three gifts are luxury items, and tell us more about Jesus than about those bearing the gifts.
Gold is a gift one gives a king. Frankincense is a fragrant resin of a bush originating in Yemen that is used as incense in worship, driving away the smells and thoughts of everyday life. It is thus an offering toGod. Myrrh is another fragrant resin from Yemen, used as an ingredient in medicines and to prepare bodies for burial. It is thus a gift to a great healer, but also a sign showing that Jesus was born not only divine but fully human and mortal, destined to die.
Before I leftBeijing, a dear friend who is an arts promoter in China and the Near East gave me a gift for going away and to celebrate my new ministry to you here in Ashland. She had just been toYemen, and brought me fresh frankincense and myrrh. This is what they look like.
As we processed into the Church today, we used my friend’s gift to symbolize our prayers rising to God and remind us of the Magi’s gifts, the gifts of strange unbelievers who come to Jesus. We will use them again to cense the altar and ourselves as we offer ourgifts of bread and wine on the altar later today.
I prefer to see the Magi as Wizards rather than kings, because their exotic strangeness and not their royalty is the point in today’s Gospel, which sets them in polar opposition to an archetypical bad king, Herod the Great.
Herod was a consummate player of power politics, marrying and divorcing well-connected wives, murdering princes and priests, and on three separate occasions suddenly switching his allegiance to political and military patrons inPalestine and thenRome on his way to the throne. He was Jewish, though only marginally so in many people’s eyes since he was from a country that had been forcibly converted a generation before. He believed you had to hold onto political power through any means necessary, and the easiest way was to suck up to the more powerful and simply make possible opponents disappear. He had worked hard to get where he was. He had no intention of losing his throne to some upstart offspring of the Davidic line. “I got MINE and no one is going to take it away from me” sums up his approach to life.
Where Herod is a Jew, but a bad one, the Magi are gentiles, but righteous ones. Where the King’s heart is tightly closed, the Wizards’ hearts are open. Wherehis fist firmly grasps his power and prestige, theirhands are filled with gifts. Where he does exactly what he has always done to stay on top, they are compelled to go beyond their comfort zone, study foreign scriptures, leave their homes, and search for a good only dimly conceived.
When the Wizards arrive at their intended destination, Jerusalem, they are disappointed to find out that things are not as they have imagined.
They are nine miles off track. It is Bethlehem, village of shepherds and the poor, rather than Jerusalem, city of the rich and powerful, where they are actually headed. Their open hearts and minds respond, and they change their understanding and direction. Ability to reorient is a sign of an open heart.
The King, however, only changes his tactics: when the Wizards do not return, he persists in his murderous plans to protect his perks, but now killing innocents in addition to the pretender to the throne. Stubborn persistence in futile patterns of thought and behavior are signs of a closed heart.
The contrast could not be greater: King vs. Wizards, closed heart vs. open hearts, stinginess vs. generosity. This teaches us something important about people and faith in general, and addresses my friend’s question.
In my experience, what matters most is not whether you are a believer or not, but what kind of heart you have. Is it open or closed? Does it seek something beyond itself or is it satisfied or stingy with what it has?
You have some believers who have open hearts and some who have closed hearts. And you have some unbelievers with open hearts and some with closed hearts. The people with open hearts, whether believers or not, are people open to God’s grace. The people with closed hearts, whether believers or not, close themselves to God’s grace.
Believers with cold, tightly closed hearts give faith and religion a bad name. They can be something very close to demons: inquisitors, Pharisees, guardians of public morality and correct doctrine, holy warriors, who do horrible things to other people using their God or their faith as an excuse. In the Gospels, the only people with whom Jesus regularly gets angry are the closed-hearted religious. To them he says, “Whores and traitors will get into the Kingdom of God before you will, because they at least recognize their need for God.”
Unbelievers with cold, tightly closed hearts can be something close to monsters because they can do horrible things to others simply to protect their own position and prestige, or to build the utopia their godless ideology demands. They are people like another Herod in the Gospels, Herod Antipas, the son of King Herod the Great in today’s story. Antipas kills John the Baptist, and Jesus calls him a “fox” at one point (Luke 13:32). Antipas wants to see Jesus as a novelty just before his crucifixion, and places him in what Luke calls a “gorgeous robe” to ridicule him. To this closed-hearted unbeliever, Jesus won’t even speak, not a single word (Luke 23:9).
Believers with open hearts remain in awe of what they do not understand about God, what is unclear, and how far removed they are from Deity. As Paul says, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23).
Unbelievers, even disbelievers, can remain open in their hearts, even if they cannot work a faith up for right now. An example of this is people in recovery in Twelve-Step programs who cannot profess faith in God, but yet “come to believe” in a power greater than themselves, a Higher Power, any higher power.
Do not misunderstand me. Sometimes we can go from closed-heartedness to open-heartedness quickly, even with no immediate change in our opinions, and then back again. Openness is a habit of the heart, an orientation of the personality, not signing on to a particular idea. The Hebrew and Greek words in the Bible normally translated as “faith” or “believe” all have a sense of putting your heart into God, of trusting him. The first commandment is “You shall love the Lord your God,” not “you shall subscribe to the intellectual proposition that there is a God.”
This week I want you to ask yourself: am I a King like Herod, or a Wizard like the Magi? Do I have an open heart? Do I let humility, good will, and even humor break into my prior conceptions and help me change? Am I willing to stretch myself beyond what is comfortable, be generous, and follow God where God leads, or do I want to say “I have MINE, and I want to keep it!” or “This is what I believe, and that settles it, no more questions!”
May we all live in love and humility, with our hearts and hands open.
In the name of Christ, Amen.
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