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Everyone should reexamine your life of believing in God to see in the course of your believing in God, whether you have a true comprehension, a true understanding, and a true knowledge of God, whether you truly know what attitudes God has toward various kinds of people, and whether you truly know God’s work on you and God’s definitions of your doings. About this God who accompanies you at your side, guides your direction of going forward, rules over your destiny, and supplies your needs, how much do you actually understand and know? Do you know what he does on you every day? Do you know what his principle and purpose of doing everything are? Do you know how he guides you? Do you know how he supplies you? Do you know in what way he leads you? Do you know what he wants to gain and accomplish in you? Do you know his attitudes toward your various manifestations? Do you know whether you are one he likes? Do you know the causes of his pleasure, anger, sorrow, and joy, his minds and thoughts behind them, and his substance? Do you know what kind of God this God you believe in is? And so on. Are these questions what you have never known about or thought about? In the course of your believing in God, have you ever cleared away your misunderstanding of God through your true taste and experience of God’s word? Have you ever accepted God’s discipline and chastening and thus had a true obedience and care for God? Have you ever known man’s disobedience and satanic nature in God’s chastisement and judgment and thus had some knowledge of God’s holiness? Have you begun to have a new outlook on life under the guidance and inspiration of God’s word? Have you felt God’s intolerance of man’s offense and his requirement and salvation of you in his trial to you? If you do not know what misunderstanding of God is and how to clear away your misunderstanding of God, it can be said that you have never had a true association with God and you have never known about God, or at least that you have never wanted to know God. If you do not know what God’s discipline and chastening are, surely you do not know what obedience and care are, or at least you have never had a true obedience and care for God. If you have never experienced God’s chastisement and judgment, surely you do not know what God’s holiness is, much less are you clear what man’s disobedience is. If you have never had a true, correct outlook on life or a true goal of life and are still perplexed and at a loss about your future way of life, even hesitant to go forward, surely you have never received God’s inspiration and guidance, or it can be said that you have never truly received the supply and provision of God’s word. If you have never experienced God’s trial, needless to say, you surely do not know what God’s intolerance of man’s offense is, nor do you know what God’s requirement for you is, much less know what God’s work of managing and saving man is. No matter how many years a person has believed in God, if he does not have any experience and comprehension of God’s word, surely he has not got on the way of salvation. His belief in God surely does not have practical content, and his knowledge of God is surely zero. Needless to say, he does not know at all what it means to fear God.
What God has and is, God’s substance, and God’s disposition are all expressed in God’s word to mankind. When man experiences God’s word, he will, in practice, understand the purpose of God’s word, understand the cause and background of God’s speaking, and understand and realize the result God speaks the word to achieve. To man, all these are the things he must experience, understand, and gain before he can have the truth, have the life, understand God’s will, attain the transformation of his disposition, and obey God’s sovereignty and arrangement. While man experiences, understands, and gains these things, he will gradually have understanding of God and also have knowledge of God varying in degree. Such understanding and knowledge are not from man’s imagination or invention, but from his taste, experience, feeling, and verification. It is only after man has such taste, experience, feeling, and verification that his knowledge of God will have content, and only his knowledge at that time will be practical, real, and accurate. The course of man’s tasting, experiencing, feeling, and verifying God’s word and thus having a true understanding and knowledge of God is his true association with God. In such an association, man will have a true understanding and comprehension of God’s will, a true understanding and knowledge of what God has and is, and a true understanding and knowledge of God’s substance, will have understanding and knowledge of God’s disposition gradually, will have a practical certainty about and an accurate definition of the fact that God rules over all things, and will have a substantial definition and knowledge of God’s identity and position. In such an association, man will gradually change his thought of God, and no longer imagine about God out of nothing, suspect God according to his own will, misunderstand God, condemn God, judge God, or doubt God. Then, man’s arguments with God will become fewer and fewer, his resistance against God will become less and less, and his disobedience to God will become less and less. On the contrary, man’s care and obedience for God will increase more and more, and his fear of God will become more and more practical and deeper and deeper. In such an association, not only will man receive the supply of the truth and the baptism of life, but also gain a true knowledge of God. In such an association, not only will man be transformed in his disposition and saved, but also gain a true fear and worship of God as a created being. After man has such an association, his belief in God will no longer be a piece of blank paper, a promise on the lips, or a blind following and admiration. It is only after man has such an association that his life will begin to grow day by day, his disposition will be gradually transformed, his belief in God will gradually go from a vague belief to a true obedience and care and into a true fear, and his following God will gradually go from inactive to initiative and from passive to active. It is only after man has such an association that he will truly understand and comprehend God and truly know God. Because most people have never had a true association with God, their knowledge of God remains just in theories and in letters and doctrines. That is to say, for most people, no matter how many years they have believed in God, as far as their knowledge of God is concerned, they still remain at the original point and remain at the basis of traditional worship with legendary color and feudal superstition. The fact that people’s knowledge of God remains at the original point means that their knowledge of God is almost zero, and except for their acknowledgment of God’s position and identity, their belief in God still remains in vagueness. Then, how much true fear of God do they have?
EasternLightning | TheChurch of Almighty God came into being because of the work of the returned Lord Jesus—the end-time Christ, “AlmightyGod”—in China, and it isn’t established by any person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. After reading God’s word, you will see that God has appeared.
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