This is Aunt Frenita and I have a wonderful story for you called "Too Short To See"

我是Frenita阿姨。 今天的故事叫做 <<太矮了，看不見！>>

Today's memory verse is from Luke 19:10. It says "“Jesus came to seek and to save what was lost.”

今天的存心节是从路加19：10 “人子 『耶穌』 來，為要尋找、拯救失喪的人。”

The message for today's story is: Jesus wants everyone to be in His family.

我们故事今天要传达的信息是: 耶穌要每個人都在祂的大家庭裡面。

Do you know someone that other people don’t like?

你有沒有認誠一個是大家都不喜歡的人？

Do you think Jesus likes that person?

你覺得耶穌會喜歡他嗎？

What would you do if you knew no one liked you?

如果知道沒有人喜歡你，你會怎麼做呢？

People did not like Zacchaeus.

人人都不喜歡撒該

Why didn’t people like Zacchaeus?

為什麼呢？

Because of his job.

是因為他的工作。

Zacchaeus was a tax collector.

撒該是一個稅吏

He took extra money from poor people to make himself rich.

他向窮苦的人民多收稅，是為了讓自己更富有。

That is stealing

那是偷竊

And people didn’t like it.

人們都不喜歡這樣。

One day Zacchaeus heard that Jesus loved everybody.

有一天，撒該聽見耶穌愛每一個人

I wonder if Jesus loves me, he thought to himself.

他自己就想："我懷疑耶穌是否愛我？"

No, Jesus couldn't love me.

"耶穌不會愛我的"

I took people’s money.

"我拿了別人的錢。"

Did you think Jesus loved Zacchaeus?

耶穌愛撒該嗎？

Of course He did, because Jesus loves everybody!

那是當然的了，因為耶穌愛每一個人！

Zacchaeus decided that he would not cheat people anymore.

撒該決定不再欺騙任何人

He wanted to be like Jesus.

他想要像耶穌一樣。

He said he was sorry to the people and started to give back the money that he had wrongly taken.

而且說他對於那些曾欺騙過的人感到抱歉，決定把那些錢還給他們。

But the people still didn’t like Zacchaeus!

但是，人們仍然不喜歡撒該

They didn’t believe him.

他們不相信他

They wouldn’t even let him come to church!

甚至不讓他到教會去

Zacchaeus was sad and discouraged.

撒該覺得很難過而且很沮喪。

One day Zacchaeus heard that Jesus was coming to Jericho.

有一天，撒該聽見耶穌要到他所住的耶利哥城

That was his town!

他必須去見見耶穌！

Oh, he just had to see Jesus!

耶穌曾經改變他的心

Jesus had changed his heart!

也會了解他的感受的。

Jesus would understand how Zacchaeus felt.

撒該個子很矮，所以甚至看不到人群的頭部。

He was a short man, so he couldn’t see over the tops of the people’s heads.

他就要錯失見耶穌的機會了

He was going to miss seeing Jesus!

於是轉身爬到附近的一棵樹上

He turned and quickly climbed up into a nearby tree.

越爬越高，直到能清楚看見耶穌為止

Higher and higher he climbed so that he could see better.

接著就看見耶穌來了。

Then he saw Jesus coming!

忽然間耶穌就停在那棵樹下

Suddenly Jesus stopped right under that tree!

祂向上看著撒該並且說：

He looked up at Zacchaeus and said,

“撒該，下來吧！我今天要住在你家！”

“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today.”

人們對這樣的情形都覺得很驚訝

The people were so surprised!

不敢相信耶穌要到撒該家去住，因為那是個騙子的家。

They couldn’t believe that Jesus would want to go to Zacchaeus’s house—to the house of a cheater!

撒該從樹上跳下來，就帶耶穌到家裡去了。

Zacchaeus hopped out of that tree and took Jesus home with him.

他知道自己已經被赦免

Now he knew that he was forgiven.

也明白耶穌愛他。

He knew that Jesus loved him.

耶穌告訴撒該的家人祂有多愛他們

Jesus told Zacchaeus’s whole family how much He loved them

並且要他們成為耶穌家庭的成員。

And wanted them to be part of His family.

又說來到世界上是要拯救每一個人，當然也包括他們。

Jesus told them that He had come to earth to save everyone, including them.

撒該想做一些耶穌所作的事

Zacchaeus wanted to do things the way Jesus did.

於是，看著耶穌說：

He looked at Jesus and said,

"我要將我的錢一半分給窮人"

“I want to give half of my money to the poor."

"對那些我所欺騙的人，就還他們原來的四倍。"

"To the people that I’ve cheated, I want to give back four times as much as I took."

"我要以你愛人的方式來愛別人！"

"I want to love everybody the way You do."

耶穌很高興撒該覺得自己是上帝家庭的一分子了。

Jesus was happy that Zacchaeus felt that He was a part of God’s family.

耶穌也希望我們有這樣的感受！

Jesus wants us to feel a part of God’s family too.