I

You suffer great judgment and curse because of this word, “faith,”

you nonetheless have true faith, you nonetheless have true faith,

and you receive the truest, most real, and most precious thing.

You receive the truest, most real, and most precious thing.

This is because it’s only within judgment

that you see the created beings’ destination;

it is in this judgment that you see that the Creator is to be loved;

it is in such work of conquest that you behold the arm of God;

it is in this conquest that you come to fully understand human life;

it is in this conquest that you gain the right path of human life

and come to understand the true meaning of “man”;

it is only in this conquest that you behold

the righteous disposition of the Almighty

and His beautiful, glorious countenance.

II

It is in this work of conquest that you learn the origin of man

and understand all mankind’s “immortal history”;

it’s in this conquest that you come to comprehend mankind’s ancestors

and the origin of mankind’s corruption, the origin of mankind’s corruption;

it is in this conquest that you receive joy and comfort

as well as endless chastening, discipline,

and words of reproach from the Creator to the mankind He created,

words of reproach from the Creator to the mankind He created;

it is in this work of conquest that you receive blessings,

as well as the calamities that are man’s due,

the calamities that are man’s due….

Is this not all because of your little bit of faith?

And did your faith not grow after you gained these things?

Have you not gained a tremendous amount?

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The Inside Truth of the Work of Conquest (1)