My wife and I became engaged six months before our wedding. During that time I remember being asked, “Where are you going to live? What are you going to do? How are you going to pay the bills?” As I look back, I’m surprised that those things didn’t worry me. I didn’t have a job. We had no home and no money. Shortly after we were married we drove our old Chevy half way across America to move into a mobile home without water or heat. Why did we do it? We were in love. And somehow that’s all that mattered at the time.

Thinking of our experience helps me understand the Magi in the Christmas story. They invested a fortune and traveled from Persia to Palestine to find and worship somebody else’s king. Why did they do it? Somehow during their journey those Magi fell in love with a child they had not met, whose name they didn’t know. They didn’t have all the answers but they were drawn by God’s love and willing to wait as long as necessary to have their questions answered.

I’m not suggesting that Christianity is a religion of blind faith and that we shouldn’t ask questions of God. Quite to the contrary, the truth of Jesus is powerful enough to persuade the greatest skeptic. Like the Magi, we may not know all the facts before we decide to follow Jesus. But, if we wait until all our questions are answered, we may miss out on finding God’s best for our lives.