【双语灵修】用爱心接待客旅 Hospitality

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“不可忘记用爱心接待客旅；因为曾有接待客旅的，不知不觉就接待了天使。” - 来 13:2

希伯来书的作者写这段经文时，是希望人们慷慨款待那些流浪的人，因为他们可能居无定所。

作者提出这个建议的背景是敦促信神的人们彼此关爱，并对其他可能有需要的人，比如陌生人、客旅和被囚禁的人表示关爱。这个建议呼应了耶稣在马太福音第25章中比喻，耶稣在那里教导说，看顾别人的需要就如同做在了祂身上。

希伯来书中的这段话还提醒我们，我们遇到的陌生人或客旅可能是一个天使——即从神而来的信使（又见创18章）。重点是，我们应该把我们遇到的每个人看作非常宝贵的和值得我们花时间的人，他们可能是神派来的，对他们表示爱和关怀就宛如做在主的身上一样。

这可能很难想像，特别是当我们的主流文化并不好客，而且还需要警惕危险的话。但是在这里，神的灵挑战我们单纯地善待他人，向每个人显出爱和仁慈，无论对方是什么身份背景。换句话说，主呼召我们无条件去爱和关心他人，就像祂对我们所做的那样。

祷告

主啊，在这个经常让人恐惧的世界上，请帮助我们把陌生人看作是你所差来的使者那样去接待。阿们。

希伯来书 13:1-3

1你们务要常存弟兄相爱的心。
2不可忘记用爱心接待客旅，因为曾有接待客旅的，不知不觉就接待了天使。
3你们要记念被捆绑的人，好像与他们同受捆绑；也要记念遭苦害的人，想到自己也在肉身之内。

Hospitality

"Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it." - Hebrews 13:2

When this passage in Hebrews was written, people were expected to show generous hospitality to travelers who might have nowhere else to stay as they went from town to town.

The context of this advice urges believers in God to show love and care for one another as well for others who may be in need, such as strangers, travelers, and people in prison. This advice echoes the words of Jesus in Matthew 25, where he teaches that caring for the needs of others is like doing the same for him.

This passage in Hebrews also invites us to consider that a stranger or visitor we encounter might be an angel—that is, a messenger from God (see also Genesis 18). The point is that we should treat anyone we meet as being so valuable and worthy of our time that they might be sent from God, and that showing love and care to them would be like doing the same for the Lord himself.

This can be hard to imagine, especially if hospitality is not common in our culture and we need to be wary of danger. But here the Spirit of God is challenging us simply to treat others well, showing love and kindness to everyone, no matter who they are. In other words, we are called to love and care for others just as the Lord has done for us.

Prayer

Lord, in a world that can often be scary, help us to treat strangers as if they were sent from you. Amen.