Well, I want to invite you to turn in your Bibles, this morning to Matthew chapter 2. Matthew chapter 2, we are going to be looking at the portion of the Christmas narrative that is, Matthew chapter 2, verses 1. Through 11, and if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be the ultimate Search. The ultimate search.
studies show that we can often spend as much as one hour a day looking for things. like our car keys, our wallet, a purse, shoes, papers, or any such thing. And you add all of that up, and some say that if you live to the age of 75, you will have spent as much as 2 years of your life looking for such things. And this doesn't even count all the time that we spend searching for an item at the grocery store, or searching for a gift that we want to buy for somebody, or even the time that we spend searching for happiness, or peace and satisfaction, or searching for solutions to some problem or some need in our soul.
When you think about it, you realize that it is probably true. That most people spend most of their lives searching for something. In one sense, just about everything we do is merely a part of a quest, a search for something, be it good or bad. I read this week that the average person with a laptop or desktop computer does on average 5 Google searches a day.
And I did a Google search to find that out. Google alone processes 40,000 search requests every second. Of the day, 40,000, that's over 1 trillion a year. We are a world of searchers, and we often don't even know what it is that we are searching for....
