First, we will listen to a hymn of God’s words: “Follow God’s Words and You Cannot Be Lost.”

1  God hopes you can eat and drink independently, eat and drink independently, and always live in the light of God’s presence, and never depart from God’s words in your life; only then can you be saturated with God’s words. In your every word and deed, God’s words shall certainly guide you forward, certainly guide you forward. If you genuinely get close to God to this degree, and constantly fellowship with God, then nothing you do will end in confusion or leave you feeling clueless. You will definitely be able to have God by your side, have God by your side, you will always be able to act in accordance with God’s word.

2  With every person, event, and thing you encounter, God’s word will appear to you at any time, guiding you to act according to His will and follow His word in everything you do. God shall lead you forward in each of your acts; you shall never go astray, and you shall live in a new light, with even more and newer enlightenments. You cannot use human notions to mull over what to do; you should submit to the guidance of God’s word, have a clear heart, be quiet before God, and do more pondering. Do not fret for solutions to what you don’t understand; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart.

3 Believe that God is your Almighty! You must have a tremendous aspiration for God, ravenously seeking while refusing Satan’s excuses, intentions, and tricks. Don’t despair. Don’t be weak. Seek with all your heart; wait with all your heart. Actively cooperate with God, and rid yourself of your internal hindrances. Believe that God is your Almighty! You must have a tremendous aspiration for God, ravenously seeking while refusing Satan’s excuses, intentions, and tricks. Don’t despair. Don’t be weak. Seek with all your heart; wait with all your heart. Actively cooperate with God, and rid yourself of your internal hindrances. Actively cooperate with God, and rid yourself of your internal hindrances.

—God’s Fellowship

You have just played the hymn “Follow God’s Words and You Cannot Be Lost.” After listening to this hymn, did you gain any light or paths of practice? From which words did you receive inspiration and light? “Follow God’s Words and You Cannot Be Lost”—are these words correct? Are they the truth? (Yes.) Which lines from this hymn do you find to be particularly helpful to your experience in real life? Start reading from the line: “Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand.” (“Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart. Believe that God is your Almighty. You must have a tremendous aspiration for God, ravenously seeking while refusing Satan’s excuses, intentions, and tricks. Do not despair. Do not be weak. Seek with all your heart; wait with all your heart. Actively cooperate with God, and rid yourself of your internal hindrances.”) Which lines in this extract offer a path of practice? Which of them are principles of practice for dealing with situations in real life that God has conveyed to man? Can you find them? The newspapers, magazines, and various books that people read all have parts that they deem worthy of note. Which parts are these? The parts that people care about, the parts that people think are the most important, and the parts that provide important information that people need to know in their daily lives. So which parts of this passage of God’s words are worthy of note? Which parts set out the requirements that God has for people? Which contain the principles that God has specified for people to practice and abide by when confronting situations in their daily lives? Can you see which ones these are? (Not very well.) Read it again. (“Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart. Believe that God is your Almighty. You must have a tremendous aspiration for God, ravenously seeking while refusing Satan’s excuses, intentions, and tricks. Do not despair. Do not be weak. Seek with all your heart; wait with all your heart. Actively cooperate with God, and rid yourself of your internal hindrances.”) Do you understand the meaning of each line in this passage? (Yes.) This passage is written in simple words that are easy to understand. It is not abstract. It is easy to understand the literal meaning of these words, so what is the principle that they contain? Can you find it when reading these words? What is a principle? To speak more broadly, God’s words and truths are principles. However, saying it this way sounds quite hollow and even a bit abstract. To be more specific, a principle is the path and criterion of practice that a person should have when doing things. This is what we call a principle. Now then, what is the principle in this passage? To be precise, this passage contains a path of practice. God has already told people how to practice and how to act when things befall them. Read this passage again and listen carefully to the words. (“Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart. Believe that God is your Almighty. You must have a tremendous aspiration for God, ravenously seeking while refusing Satan’s excuses, intentions, and tricks. Do not despair. Do not be weak. Seek with all your heart; wait with all your heart. Actively cooperate with God, and rid yourself of your internal hindrances.”) You all have read this passage three times. Has it made something of an impression on you? After reading it three times, do you feel something different than when listening to this song without paying close attention as you normally do? (Yes.) In this passage, what principles of practice can you find and comprehend? What aspect of the truth does God put forth here? This aspect of the truth is related to a principle of practice, but what exactly is the principle here? What kind of real issues does it touch on? The first line touches on a real issue—it talks about things that you do not understand. These things that you do not understand include issues related to the truth, your practice, dispositional change, problems related to your field of work and the personal states you experience while doing your duty, as well as the issue of how to discern the essence of people, and so on. Such things do indeed occur around you, and you have seen and heard them. However, you don’t understand the essence of these issues or the truths that they touch on, and even less do you know the path of practice and the principles that are involved. Naturally, you also do not know God’s intentions in the matter, and other such things. When a person does not understand, know, or see through to these things, they become their biggest difficulties, and they should be resolved based on God’s words—“Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand; bring such matters before God more often.” There are many things that you don’t understand, both things in the outside world and things in God’s house. Since you don’t understand these things, what should you do? First, you must seek the truth and see what is said in the word of God and what truth principles can be found there. You must carefully ponder, reading God’s words several times. First, find the reality of the truth, and then understand what God requires of you, next, determine the principles for practicing the truth—that way, it will be easy for you to understand the truth. This is the process of reading God’s words in order to seek the truth. Can you understand what I have said? (Yes.) God has arranged your environment, and the people, events, and things around you. So, what is God’s attitude toward this? You can see it in the word of God. God tells you to not fret for solutions, to not rush to define things, to pass verdicts, or to make any judgments. Why is this? Because you don’t yet understand this event that God has arranged for you. When God tells you not to rush, what does this mean? It means that this event has occurred, that God has laid it before you and placed you in this environment, and God’s attitude is very clear. God tells you, “I am in no hurry to have you fully understand what is going on in this situation. I am in no hurry to have you immediately pass a verdict, give your conclusion, or propose any kind of solution for it.” This matter is unfamiliar to you and you don’t understand it, it is something you have never encountered before, and a lesson that you have not yet learned, moreover, you have no experiential knowledge or instruction regarding it, and you have not experienced it at all before, so God is in no hurry for you to come up with an answer to it. Some people ask: “Since God has arranged this environment, why is He not in a hurry to see the results of it?” Herein also lies God’s intention. God’s objective in arranging environments is not to have you quickly produce a theoretical judgment or conclusion about it. God wants you to experience such an environment and event, and He wants you to understand the people, events, and things it contains, so that you may learn a lesson of submitting to God. Once you have gained such an understanding and personal experience, this event will be meaningful to you, and it will hold great significance and value for you. In the end, after experiencing this thing, what you will gain is not a theory, nor a notion, nor an imagining, nor a judgment, nor even experiential knowledge or a lesson summarized by man, but a personal, first-hand experience, and true knowledge of it. This knowledge will be close to the truth or it will accord with the truth. Through experiencing such things, you will be able to see that God’s attitude toward man is very clear and expressed in a way that is easy to comprehend. As God sees it, He is not in any rush for you to quickly give your answer or to hand in your response. God wants you to experience this environment. This is His attitude. And since this is God’s attitude, He has a requirement and a standard for man. This standard is a principle that people should practice. What is a principle of practice? It is the approach, method, and means you employ when you encounter a specific event. When you understand God’s intention and attitude regarding an event, you should put God’s requirements into practice. And what does God require of you? God said, “Do not fret for solutions.” This “Do not fret for solutions” has a background to it. So why does God place such a requirement and standard on man? Are you clear on this point? It is because you are an ordinary person. You are not a superman, your thinking is that of a normal person. You are a run-of-the-mill person. No matter if you live to forty, fifty, or even eighty years, you will always continue to grow. You do not remain forever just as you were born. Your current experiences, experiential knowledge, understanding, the things that you see and hear, your life experiences, and so on—all of this—along with all the things that you know and understand in your heart and mind, these are all the cumulative results of years of honing. This is called normal humanity. It is the process of normal human growth set out for man by God and it is an expression of normal humanity. So, when you encounter something that you don’t understand, something that is unfamiliar to you, God does not require you to quickly give an answer to it, and to respond to it very fast as if you were a robot. Because a robot inputs all information into its memory at once, when you ask it for an answer, it responds after a single search—provided the answer can be found in its memory. This is not the same for normal people. Even when they have previously experienced something, it is not necessarily stored in their memories. When it comes to people, it is only things that relate to normal humanity like experiential knowledge, experiences, life experience, and true first-hand knowledge that separate them from supermen, robots, and humans with special powers.

God has set out requirements and standards for people based on what those with normal humanity need and ought to possess, and He has pointed out a path of practice. What is this path of practice? Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand. This tells you that it is useless for you to rush to find solutions. Why is this so? You are just an ordinary person. Though you may have a bit of experiential knowledge and understanding from your previous experiences, if the same thing were to occur again in the future, you might not necessarily be able to fully grasp God’s intentions, practice in complete accordance with the truth, or get full marks. This is even less likely when it comes to things that you don’t understand, so in those circumstances, you should be even less in a hurry to find a solution. What does the instruction not to fret for solutions tell people? The point of it is to make people understand normal humanity. Normal humanity is not exceptional, extraordinary, or special. People’s understanding, experiential knowledge, recognition, and comprehension of various things, as well as their views on the essence of various types of people, are all achieved through their experience of various environments, people, events, and things. This is normal humanity. There is nothing transcendent about it, and it is a hurdle that no person can jump. If you wish to go beyond these laws that God has made for man, that would not be normal. In one respect, it would only show that you do not know what normal humanity is. In another respect, it would reveal your excessive arrogance and impracticality. God has told people not to fret for solutions to what they do not understand. As you are a normal person, you need God to arrange more environments for you, so that you can experience, understand, and recognize the corruption of man shown therein, and also understand God’s intentions through these people, events, and things. This is what people with normal humanity should do. Now then, what path of practice can be found in “Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand”? (Do not fret for solutions.) When a person encounters a situation and cannot see through to or understand it, when they have never previously encountered or conceived of it, and when it is impossible for them to even imagine how to solve this matter by relying on human notions, what should they do? What is the principle that God demands? (Do not fret for solutions.) God has demanded this of you, so how should you practice? With what attitude should you approach such things? When people who possess normal humanity encounter things that they cannot see through to, cannot understand, and have no experience of, or even situations in which they are completely helpless, they should first adopt a proper attitude and say, “I do not understand, cannot see through to, and have no experience of this sort of thing, nor do I know what to do. I am just an ordinary person, so there are limits to what I can achieve. There is no shame in being unable to see through to or understand some things, and there is certainly no shame in lacking experience of them.” When you come to the realization that this is not shameful, is that the end of the matter? Will the problem have been resolved? Not worrying about bringing shame upon oneself is just an understanding and an attitude that people can adopt toward such things. It is not the same as practicing according to God’s requirements. So how can one practice according to God’s requirements? Say that you think to yourself, “I have never experienced this kind of thing before, and I can’t see through to it. I don’t know what God’s arrangement of such an environment means, or what outcome it is meant to achieve. I do not know the attitude of God, either. Therefore, I see no need to bother myself about it. I’ll just let it run its course, and ignore it”—what do you think of such an attitude? Is this the attitude of seeking the truth? Is this the attitude of practicing according to God’s intentions? Is this the attitude of following the word of God? (No.) Other people, upon encountering such a situation, think to themselves, “I cannot see through to or understand this matter, and I have never experienced it before. This was never covered in my university classes. I have a master’s degree, a Ph.D., and I have even worked as a professor—if I cannot understand this, who possibly could? Wouldn’t it be too embarrassing to let everyone know that I cannot see through to this and have no experience of it? Wouldn’t they all look down on me? No, I cannot say that this is something I can’t see through to. I must say, ‘Concerning matters of this sort, look to the word of God, seek, and you will find the answer.’ I would rather die than admit I cannot see through to or understand this matter.” What do you think of this attitude? (It is not good.) Who does this person think they are? They think they are a saint, a perfect person. They think, “Can there really be things that I, a dignified university student, a renowned scholar, a master’s degree and Ph.D. holder, a great and famous figure, cannot understand or see through to? Impossible! And even if there was, it would be something that none of you could understand, so that’s not a problem. Even if I couldn’t see through to it, I would surely not let you know that. ‘I can’t see through to it,’ ‘I don’t understand,’ ‘I can’t,’ such words must never leave my mouth!” What sort of person is this? (An arrogant person.) This is an arrogant and conceited person who lacks reason. If this sort of person reads the words “Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand,” would they gain a path of practice? Would they receive a spark of inspiration? If not, them reading these words would all have been in vain. These words are plainly written and easy to comprehend, so why can’t they understand them? All those years you spent studying and learning words were of no use. If you can’t even understand these simple and straightforward words, then you truly are good for nothing!

Now, let’s take another look at what path of practice is contained in the line “Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand.” First of all, you should adopt an attitude of not fretting over solutions and, instead, first recognize what your intrinsic capabilities can achieve, recognize what normal humanity is, and understand what God means when He speaks of normal humanity. You should understand what God really means when He says that He does not want people to be supermen or transcendent, extraordinary individuals, and that He just wants them to be regular people. You must first understand these things. It is useless to pretend to know things that you don’t understand. No matter how much you pretend otherwise, you still won’t know them. Even if you can fool everyone else, you won’t be able to deceive God. When such things befall you, if you don’t understand them, then just say that you don’t understand them. You must have a sincere attitude and a pious heart, and allow those around you to see that there are things that you do not know and that you cannot see through to, things that you have not experienced before, and that you are just an ordinary person, no different from anyone else. There is nothing shameful in that. It is a manifestation of normal humanity, and you must accept this fact. After you accept this fact, then what? Tell it to everyone, saying, “I have never experienced this thing before, I cannot see through to it, and I don’t know what to do. I am just like you, though it is possible that I surpass you in one area: I have seen the light and found the path of practice in God’s words, I have hope, and I know how to practice.” Where does this hope lie? It lies in God’s words: “Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart.” This means taking the matter to heart, and bringing it before God from time to time to seek on it. You must take the matter into your heart, transform it into a kind of onus on you to understand the truth and God’s intention in it, and turn it into your responsibility and the direction and goal of your seeking. If you practice in this way, you will come before God, you will be able to resolve your problem, and you will have entered into the reality of these words. How should you practice this, specifically? You must come before God to pray and seek, and you should also find opportunities to share this matter while you are fellowshipping at gatherings, and to commune and ponder on it with everyone. “Bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart.” Your heart must be sincere and true. You must not just go through the motions or act in a perfunctory manner, and you must mean the things that you say. You must take on a burden regarding this matter, and bring with you a heart that hungers and thirsts for righteousness, wanting to understand God’s intention in this matter and to see through to the essence of this matter, while at the same time, wishing to resolve the problems and confusion that people face when they encounter this matter, as well as problems like your own corrupt disposition or various abnormal states. “Bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart.” This is a complete path of practice that God has told man. What do you see in this line? That God’s objective in arranging environments for man is, in one respect, to allow people to experience various things in a multitude of ways, to learn lessons from them, to enter into the various truth realities contained in the word of God, to enrich people’s experiences, and to help them gain a more comprehensive and multi-faceted understanding of God, themselves, their environments, and humanity. In another respect, God wants people to maintain a normal relationship with Him by orchestrating some special environments and arranging some special lessons for them. This way, people come before Him more frequently, rather than living in a godless state, saying that they believe in God, but acting in a way that has nothing to do with God or the truth, which will lead to trouble. Therefore, in the environments arranged by God, people are, in fact, reluctantly and passively brought before God by God Himself. This shows the thoughtful consideration of God. The more you lack understanding in a certain matter, the more you should have a God-fearing and pious heart, and frequently come before God to seek God’s intentions and the truth. When you don’t understand things, you need God’s enlightenment and guidance. When you encounter things that you do not understand, you need to ask God to work more upon you. These are God’s thoughtful consideration. The more you come before God, the closer your heart will be to God. And isn’t it true that the closer your heart is to God, the more God will dwell within it? The more God is in a person’s heart, the better their pursuit, the path they walk, and the state in their heart will become. The closer your relationship with God, the easier it will be for you to come often before God to offer your sincere heart, and the more genuine your faith in God will become. At the same time, your life, actions, and conduct will be restrained. How does such restraint arise? It arises when people often pray to God, seek the truth, and accept God’s scrutiny. This is the most important thing. So, in what context and on what conditions can a person accept God’s scrutiny? (When they have a normal relationship with God.) That is right, when they have a normal relationship with God. If you have a normal relationship with God will this not mean that God is in your heart and that you are very close to Him? It will mean that God always has a place in your heart, and that God occupies a very prominent position in your heart. As a result, you will always think of God, think on the word of God, think on God’s identity and essence, think on God’s sovereignty, and think on everything that is of God. To use a vernacular phrase, your heart will be packed to the brim with God, and God will have a very high place in your heart. If your heart is filled with God, then you will have a normal relationship with God, you will be able to accept God’s scrutiny, and, at the same time, you will also have a God-fearing heart. Only then will you be able to act with restraint. “Bring such matters before God more often” is a simple sentence, but it contains many layers of meaning. It contains God’s intentions for mankind and the attitude with which God requires people to act, while also conveying the requirements that God places on mankind. And so, what are God’s requirements for mankind? That you do not give up, run away, or adopt an indifferent attitude toward the things that befall you. What should you do if you are confronted with something that you do not understand and cannot see through to, or that you cannot overcome, or that even makes you weak? Do not fret for solutions. God does not push people beyond their abilities. God never requires people to do things that are beyond the scope of human capabilities. What God would have you do and the things that He requires of you are all things that can be achieved, attained, and accomplished by people with normal humanity. Therefore, God’s requirements and standards for man are not the least bit empty or vague. God’s requirements for man are nothing more than a standard that covers the scope of what people with normal humanity can achieve. If you always follow your imaginings, and want to be better, superior, and more capable than others, if you always want to outperform others, then you have misunderstood God’s meaning. Arrogant and self-righteous people are often like this. God says not to fret for solutions, He says to seek the truth and act with principles, but arrogant and self-righteous people do not carefully consider these requirements of God. Instead, they insist on trying to accomplish things with a burst of strength and energy, to do things in a neat and beautiful way, and to surpass everyone else in the blink of an eye. They want to be supermen and they refuse to be ordinary people. Is this not going against the laws of nature that God has laid out for man? (Yes.) Obviously, they are not normal people. They lack normal humanity, and they are too arrogant. They disregard the requirements that are within the scope of normal humanity which God has put forward for mankind. They disregard the standards that can be attained by people with normal humanity which God has set out for mankind. Therefore, they disdain God’s requirements and think, “God’s requirements are too low. How can believers in God be normal people? They must be extraordinary people, individuals who transcend and surpass regular people. They must be great and renowned figures.” They disregard God’s words, thinking that although God’s words are correct and the truth, they are just too common and ordinary, so they ignore His words and they look down upon them. But it is exactly in these normal and ordinary words, so disdained by those so-called supermen and great figures, that God points out the principles and paths that people should abide by and practice. God’s words are so sincere, objective, and practical. They do not place high demands on people at all. They are all things that people can and should achieve. As long as people have a bit of normal reason, they should not try to float around in mid-air, and they should instead accept God’s words and the truth with their feet firmly planted on the ground, perform their duties well, live before God, and treat the truth as the principle of their conduct and actions. They should not be overly ambitious. In the line “bring such matters before God more often,” people should understand even more that God’s words are the truth, and that truths are the principles that people should practice. Who does “people” refer to here? It refers to normal people who have normal rationality and normal judgment, who love positive things, and who understand what is objective, what is practical, what is commonplace, and what is ordinary. Take time to savor the words “bring such matters before God more often.” Although these are plain, ordinary words, they describe something that people who possess the reason of normal humanity should be able to do and they are also the truth principle that a person with normal humanity most ought to practice when encountering difficulties in their real life. They are the truth most needed by people who possess the reason of normal humanity. They are not empty words at all. You have sung and listened to these ordinary words many times, but none of you have treated these words as truths to carefully ponder and attentively fellowship on. In this way, you have allowed these precious words to run through your fingers. In fact, these words contain God’s intentions, God’s reminders and admonitions to people, and God’s requirements for people. They contain so much. People are heartless and irrational, and they treat these words as ordinary words; they do not treasure them, ponder on them, or practice them, and who will be the ones to suffer and lose out in the end because of this? The people themselves. Is this not a lesson?

It is very easy for normal people to practice the requirements set out by God in this passage. There is nothing difficult or exhausting about this practice, and it is effective. Ultimately, it can enable you to gradually grow and progress. Of course, after you put the principle of “Do not fret for solutions; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart” into practice, you will make progress in terms of the truth, dispositional change, the understanding you gain from experiencing various environments, and so on. How wonderful these words are! If people have reason and put these words into practice, then under the guidance and direction of God’s words, they will come to know what God’s intentions are when He arranges various environments. After a period of time, they will eventually be able to reap rewards, gain experience, and come to understand the truth in those environments. When you reap such rewards, you will know why God has arranged these environments, what God’s intentions are, and what God wishes people to gain from them. Furthermore, the detours people go down, the setbacks they experience, the distorted understandings they harbor, the unrealistic ideas they possess, the notions and resistance toward God that has arisen within them, and so on, will all gradually be exposed and revealed while they experience these environments. Regardless of whether these things are positive or negative, it takes a period of experience to clearly see and understand that which is exposed and revealed through these environments. In this way, the true meaning of God’s words “Do not fret for solutions to what you do not understand” is fulfilled. That is, when God arranges something that you cannot see through to or understand, and have not experienced before, the things that God wants you to understand, gain, and personally experience from that situation cannot be attained in just a couple of days. It is only after some time and with God’s direction, enlightenment, and guidance at each step that you will gradually gain an understanding and attain results. It is not as people imagine, you do not suddenly understand everything in a burst of enlightenment or know what God means in a flash of inspiration. God does not do such things by supernatural means, God does not act in this way. This is the way in which God works. God allows you to experience the causes and consequences of a situation, and you gradually come to realize: “So the essence of this sort of person is like this, and the reality and essence of that kind of thing is like this, and this fulfills such-and-such line of the word of God. I finally understand what God meant when He said that. I finally understand why God said such things about matters like this and people like that.” God allows you to come to such realizations through your experiences. Doesn’t it take some time to realize these things? (Yes.) The knowledge that you attain and the truths that you come to understand through a period of experience are not doctrines or theoretical things, but your personal experiences and true knowledge. This is the truth reality that you enter into. Here lies the cause and the source of God’s words “Do not fret for solutions.” When God allows you to reap rewards from the events that you experience, He does not want you to simply go through a process or learn a theory, but to gain an understanding, some knowledge, a positive point of view, and a correct method of practice. Although this passage contains only a few lines and doesn’t cover a lot of content, the requirements God puts forward in this passage and the principles of practice He gives people through it are very important. People should not treat God’s words with the same attitude they adopt toward human knowledge and doctrines. To practice God’s words, you must have principles. This means that you must have a principle, a method, to put into practice when you encounter a certain sort of situation. This is what it means to practice the truth. This is what we call a principle. Therefore, these are not just a few simple words. Although the way that they are expressed and presented is plain and accessible, and the words seem very straightforward, and they are not adorned with beautiful, flowery language, or elegant terms, or refined turns of phrase, and they are certainly not spoken with a tone of condescension, and they are rather just sincere admonitions and requirements spoken face-to-face and heart-to-heart, they actually tell people the most important principles and paths of practice.

Many people never take the most ordinary words spoken by God seriously. They only regard the profound and mysterious words that God speaks as His words. Isn’t this a manifestation of a distorted understanding? Every sentence of God’s words is the truth. Regardless of whether they are ordinary words or profound words, all of God’s words contain truths and mysteries, and it requires years of experience and a certain stature to understand and know them. Just like the good and important words of God contained in the hymn you just sang—no one takes those words seriously. Although they are set to music and everyone has sung them for years, no one has ever found this most important principle of practice that they contain. Even if some people have a feeling in their consciousness that God’s words seem to be telling them, “Do not fret for solutions; bring such matters before God more often, and offer to Him a sincere heart,” and feel that these are requirements that God has for people, who has ever truly practiced, implemented, and entered into the reality of these words of God in their real life? Has anyone done this? (No.) No one has done this. These words of God are so simple, but no one can follow them. Is there not an essential problem contained within this? (Yes, it shows that people are averse to the truth.) Anything else? (These words that God has spoken to us are very practical. They are all words of principle. But we haven’t taken God’s words seriously, we haven’t paid attention to them, and we haven’t put them into practice.) So how do you usually read God’s words? (When we read God’s words, we usually just skim through them. After we understand the literal meaning of the words, we move on. We don’t understand what God’s intentions are in those words or what truth principles we should practice. We haven’t carefully pondered on them like that.) You have replied with some theoretical ideas and what you say sounds correct, but you have not seen through to the root cause of this, which is that people do not treasure the word of God. If you treasure God’s words, you will be able to discover the treasures, gold, and diamonds they contain and you will enjoy these things for a lifetime. If you do not treasure God’s words, you will not be able to obtain these treasures. What does it mean to not treasure God’s words? It means that you do not cherish God’s words. You feel that there are so many of God’s words, and that all of them are the truth, and you don’t know which ones to treasure. You feel that they are all ordinary, and this means trouble. What does it mean to treasure God’s words? It means that you know that God’s words are all truths, and that these truths are the most useful and priceless treasures for the lives and living of people. It means that you treat God’s words as treasures that you love too much to part with. This attitude toward God’s words is called treasuring. Treasuring God’s words means that you have discovered that all of God’s words are treasures of the greatest value, that they are a hundred, a thousand times more precious than the life mottos of any famous or great figure. It means that you have obtained the truth of God’s words and that you have discovered the greatest and most valuable treasures of life. Gaining these treasures can help you to increase your worth and attain God’s approval. For this reason, you especially treasure these truths. I will give a real-life example of this. Say a woman buys a beautiful dress, and when she returns home, she tries it on in the mirror. Looking left and right, she thinks: “This dress is so beautiful, its fabric is excellent, its workmanship is exquisite, and it is comfortable and soft to wear. How blessed I am to be able to buy such nice clothes. This is my favorite piece of clothing, but I can’t wear it all the time. I will wear it when I attend the most high-class events and meet the most distinguished people.” When she has some spare time, she often takes out the dress to admire it and try it on. Six months later, she is still just as excited about the dress and she can’t bear to part with it. This is what it means to treasure something. Has your attitude toward God’s words reached this level? (No.) How pitiful it is that you do not yet treasure the words of God as much as a woman treasures her favorite dress! No wonder you have read many of God’s words but failed to discover so many truths, and have never been able to enter into reality. You always say that all of God’s words are the truth, but these are only theoretical and verbal claims. If one of the simplest and first expressed passages of God’s words were brought out, and you were asked what truths are in those words, what the intentions of God are, or what requirements and standards God gives to man, you would be speechless and not be able to utter a single word in response. You have read and listened to God’s words a lot, so why do you not have a true understanding of them? Where is the root of the problem? Actually, it is that people do not treasure the words of God enough. At the current degree to which you treasure the words of God, you are far from discovering the truth in God’s words and far from discovering the requirements, principles, and paths of practice that God bestows upon man through them. This is why you are always confused when things befall you and can never find the principles. This is why you experience many things, but never know the intentions of God, or grow or change very much, or reap more than slight rewards. Aren’t people like this very pitiful?