578 How to Treat God’s Commission
How you regard God’s commissions is a very serious matter! If you cannot complete what God has entrusted to you, then you are not fit to live in His presence and should be punished. It is Heaven’s law and earth’s principle for humans to complete whatever commissions God entrusts to them; this is their highest responsibility, just as important as their very lives. If you do not take God’s commissions seriously, then you are betraying Him in the most grievous way; in this, you are more lamentable than Judas, and should be cursed. People must gain a thorough understanding of how to view what God entrusts to them and, at the very least, must comprehend that the commissions He entrusts to humanity are exaltations and special favors from God; they are most glorious things. Everything else can be abandoned; even if one must sacrifice one’s own life, he must still fulfill God’s commission.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. How to Know Man’s Nature
