I

In this life, people have but a limited time

to go from understanding things to having this chance,

possessing this caliber, and satisfying the conditions

to engage in dialogue with the Creator, engage in dialogue with the Creator,

so as to reach true understanding, knowledge, and fear of the Creator,

and walk the way of fearing God and shunning evil.

To be responsible, you should work harder to equip yourself with the truth,

reflect on yourself more when things happen,

and quickly compensate for your own shortcomings.

You should come to practice the truth, to act according to principles,

to enter into the truth reality, to know more of God,

to be able to know and understand God’s intentions,

and to not live your life in vain.

You must come to know where the Creator is, what the Creator’s intentions are,

and how the Creator expresses joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—

even if you cannot attain a deeper awareness or complete knowledge,

you must at least possess a basic understanding of God, never betray God,

be fundamentally compatible with God,

show consideration to God, offer basic consolation to God,

and do what’s proper and basically achievable for a created being.

These are no easy things.

II

In the process of performing their duties,

people can gradually come to know themselves,

and thereby know God, thereby know God.

This process is an interaction between the Creator and created beings,

and it should be a process worth reminiscing on throughout one’s life.

It’s something people should be able to enjoy,

not a painful and difficult process.

Therefore, people should cherish the days and nights,

years and months spent performing their duties.

They should cherish this phase of life,

and should not regard it as an encumbrance or burden.

They should savor and experience this stage of their lives.

Then, they will attain an understanding of the truth

and live out human likeness,

possess a God-fearing heart, and do less and less evil,

possess a God-fearing heart, and do less and less evil.

You understand much of the truth,

you do not do things that grieve God or that He is averse to.

When you come before God, you feel that God no longer loathes you.

How wonderful! How wonderful!

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Spreading the Gospel Is the Duty to Which All Believers Are Honor-Bound