I

If you wish to practice and understand the truth,

then first you must seek the truth

when things happen to you in your everyday life.

That is, you must view things based on God’s words and the truth;

when the essence of the problem is clear to you,

then you’ll know how to practice in accordance with the truth principles.

And if you always view things according to God’s words,

you will be able to see the hand of God—the deeds of God—

in everything that happens around you.

No matter what happens around them,

some people think that it has nothing to do

with their faith in God or the truth;

they merely follow their own inclinations,

reacting according to the philosophies of Satan.

Can they learn any lessons like this?

II

Experiencing thus, they will never gain the truth,

will never understand just what it is that God wants to accomplish in people,

and the effect He wishes to achieve in them.

God expresses the truth in order to save people,

to cleanse and change their corrupt dispositions,

but they’re not aware that only if they accept and pursue the truth

will they be able to solve their own corrupt dispositions;

they’re not aware that only when they experience

and practice God’s words in their daily lives

can they gain the truth.

Such people are dim and ignorant,

and they’re the most foolish, ridiculous people.

Such people are dim and ignorant,

and they’re the most foolish, ridiculous people.

III

Some people have never pursued the truth in their faith in God.

They think that faith in God means going to assembly,

praying, singing hymns, reading God’s words;

they emphasize religious ceremony,

and they never practice or experience God’s words.

When people treat faith in God as religious conviction,

they belong to the disbelievers; they are nonbelievers.

Pursuing the truth requires experiencing many processes.

We should seek the truth and practice and experience God’s words

in everything that happens around us.

Once you begin to do this, you’ll see more and more

that there is so much truth you need to gain and pursue in your belief in God,

and that the truth is so practical and the truth is life.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. The Importance of Pursuing the Truth and the Path of Its Pursuit