In the Christmas story, the wise men bring gifts to the Lord: gold, frankincense and myrrh.

The gold is listed first, because it is the inmost - signifying good, e.g. the good that we do when we love the Lord and the neighbor.

The frankincense is next. It signifies rational truth, which is the set of true ideas that we know, not about external things like cars or cooking, but about what is really good, and what is really true.

These rational truths are built on earlier knowledges that we learn, before we have really made them our own. Those early knowledges about spiritual things - often learned in childhood - are represented by the myrrh.

In a way, these gifts are really a reciprocation. We can't actually give them to the Lord until the Lord has given them to us. We necessarily start out by learning and doing the Lord's law (myrrh). The Lord can then call up those memories to become rational truths (frankincense). Then, over time, and with effort, those truths can be transformed into good (gold). The wise men from the East had gone through this process of learning and becoming vessels that could receive truths and goods. They were able to perceive the Lord's birth, and find him, and bring gifts to him.

To worship or adore, in the Word, signifies to acknowledge and believe.

In Genesis 22:5, this signifies submission. (Arcana Coelestia 2794)

In Exodus 24:1, this signifies humiliation and adoration from the heart. (Arcana Coelestia 9377)

In Revelation 13:12, this signifies to acknowledge something as sacred in the church. (Apocalypse Revealed 597)

In Psalm 106:19, this signifies idolatry. (Arcana Coelestia 9391)

In Revelation 13:4, this signifies acceptance of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. (Apocalypse Revealed 579)

Worship signifies also, here, that the common people acknowledge as a holy truth that no one can do good works by or from himself alone, nor fulfil the Law. (Apocalypse Revealed 580)

(References: Apocalypse Explained 805)