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When God is trying people, what kind of reality does He wish to create? He is constantly asking that people give Him their hearts. When God tries you, He sees if your heart is with Him, or with the flesh and Satan. When God tries you, He sees whether you are standing in opposition to Him or are in a position that is compatible with Him, and He sees whether your heart is on His side. When you are immature and facing trials, you have little faith, and you cannot know exactly what it is you need to do to satisfy God’s intentions, for your understanding of the truth is limited. However, if you can still pray to God genuinely and sincerely, and if you can be willing to give your heart over to Him, and let Him rule over you, and be willing to offer unto Him all those things that you believe to be most precious, then you will have already given God your heart.

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As you listen to more sermons and understand more of the truth, your stature will also gradually grow. At this time, the standard that God requires of you will not be the same as it was when you were immature—it will be a higher standard. As people gradually give their hearts over to God, their hearts grow slowly nearer to Him; as people can genuinely grow nearer to God, they more and more come to have God-fearing hearts. What God wants is just such a heart.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. How to Know God’s Disposition and the Results His Work Shall Achieve