如何對待上帝？

馬太福音2:10-11 他們看見那星，就大大的歡喜。進了房子，看見小孩子和祂母親馬利亞，就俯伏拜那小孩子，揭開寶盒，拿黃金、乳香、沒藥為禮物獻給祂。

我們從博士尋找基督的記錄中得到的首要的真理，就是「他們不是在耶路撒冷找到的」。如果要找到基督，他們必需聆聽先知彌迦。在領受了話語之後，再去伯利恆。這裡上帝給了他們寬慰：使他們一出耶路撒冷，就看到那顆星回來了，照亮他們腳前的路，直至伯利恆，到達嬰孩所在的房子。就真理來說，他們實在需要這份寬慰，因為除了貧苦和悲淒之外，他們在那房子裡什麼也沒有發現。窮到幾乎找不到水喝。這真是王的居所嗎？
但是這些聖賢並沒有被錯誤地指引。他們既然不在意基督的貧窮和可憐，就跪在那嬰孩面前，崇拜祂，然後揭開寶盒，獻呈給祂。
我們學到的第二個真理是要正確地對待我們主耶穌基督：我們必需拋棄一切對基督的反感，和博士一起在世界面前見證主基督，從內心深處尋求祂，崇敬祂作我們的救主。因為祂在世上的國度是如此貧賤，我們應歡喜快樂地以我們的黃金、物資、和一切所有幫助興旺祂的國。魔鬼和世界正用許多方法壓迫和攔阻神國。所以，如同博士一樣，今天我們應該揭開寶盒，獻呈給祂。怎樣獻呢？看啊，祂的話語記著：（太25:40）「你們既做在我這弟兄中一個最小的身上，就是做在我身上了。」——馬丁路德（1544年顯現日的講道，有改動）(WA 52:92f)

How To Treat God?
Matthew 2:10-11 When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. They offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

When the wise men went to search for Christ, the newborn king, they did not find him in Jerusalem. Indeed, if they were to find him at all, they had to listen to the prophet Micah. When they had received the Word, they took the road to Bethlehem. Then the star returned as soon as they had got outside Jerusalem, and it shone brightly before them right to Bethlehem, to the door where the babe was. And truly they needed such a comfort, for they found nothing there but poverty and beggary. There is hardly a drink of water. Can this really be a king’s abode?
But the saintly men are not misled. Heedless of the poverty and wretchedness, they fall down before the babe and worship him, and open their treasures and present them to him.
We should learn from this story also the right attitude to have toward our Lord Jesus Christ. That is, we should cast aside all offense and, together with these wise men, witness before the world to the Lord Christ, seek him from the bottom of our hearts, and adore him as our Savior. And because his reign on earth is so poor and wretched, we should with our gold, goods, and all our possessions gladly help to increase his kingdom. For on this very day we can still open to Christ our treasures and present them to him, as the wise men did. How? His answer is written for us: “Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me” (Matthew 25:40). (Sermon for Epiphany, 1544) (WA 52:92f)

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