Regarding these words spoken by God, when you listen, do you compare them with yourselves, or just listen to them as doctrine, run it through your mind once so you understand what it means, and that’s all? What kind of attitude and intentions do you have while listening? If you really understand what God has said—that those who do not practice the truth shall be eliminated; that those who do not practice the truth are not good but evil people in the eyes of God—then you should reflect upon yourselves and see which of your actions are not practicing the truth, and which of your methods and attitudes are seen by God as manifestations of not practicing the truth. Have you ever tried to fathom these matters? Have you reflected upon yourselves? It is not enough to just read the words of God with a cursory glance; you must contemplate them, self-reflect, and compare your own thoughts and actions with God’s words of exposure, and achieve self-knowledge—only in this way can you have genuine repentance and change. If you read the words of God but do not ponder them and do not self-reflect, instead just focusing on understanding doctrine, then your belief in God will not have any life entry, nor will you undergo any real transformation. Therefore, it is essential to ponder, seek the truth, and self-reflect when reading God’s words. What are God’s words? They are the reality of all positive things, they are the truth, they are the way, they are the life bestowed by God upon humans. The words of God are not doctrine, they are not slogans, they are not a kind of theory, nor are they philosophical knowledge; rather, they are the truth that people must understand and attain, and the life they must obtain. Therefore, the words of God are intimately related to people’s lives and life itself, the path people should walk, and people’s outcome and destination. If someone really understands the truth and has obtained the truth, everything about them will change accordingly. If someone can never understand the truth or live by God’s words, they cannot possibly achieve genuine change or gain God’s approval. The outcome and destination for that person can only be to suffer perdition and be destroyed. This is how important the words of God and the truth He expresses are to people. If you read the words of God but do not contemplate them, self-reflect, or connect them to your own real problems and difficulties, then all that you are able to understand is only superficial, and you cannot possibly understand the truth or grasp God’s intentions. Therefore, you must learn how to contemplate God’s words to understand the truth. This is crucial. There are many ways to contemplate God’s words: You may read them silently and pray in your heart, seeking enlightenment and illumination from the Holy Spirit; you may also fellowship and pray-read in the company of those who pursue the truth; and, of course, you may integrate fellowships and sermons into your contemplation to deepen your understanding and comprehension of God’s words. The ways are many and varied. In short, if, in reading God’s words, one wishes to achieve an understanding of them, then it is crucial to contemplate and pray-read God’s words. The purpose of pray-reading God’s words is not to be able to recite them, nor is it to commit them to memory; rather, it is to gain an accurate understanding of these words after having pray-read and contemplated them and to know the meaning of these words spoken by God, as well as His intention. It is to find therein the path of practice, and to keep from turning to one’s own way. In addition, it is to be able to have discernment on all the various sorts of states and types of people exposed in God’s words, and to be able to treat each type of person according to the principles, while at the same time avoiding going astray. Once you learn how to pray-read and contemplate God’s words, and do it often, only then can God’s words take root in your heart and become your life.