I

What testimony does man ultimately bear to God?

Man testifies that God is the righteous God, God is the righteous God,

that His disposition is righteousness, wrath, chastisement, and judgment;

man testifies to the righteous disposition of God.

God uses His judgment to make man perfect,

He has loved man, and He has saved man—

but how much is contained within His love?

There is judgment, majesty, wrath, and curse.

Though God cursed man in the past,

He did not completely cast man into the bottomless pit,

but used that means to refine man’s faith;

He did not put man to death, but acted to make man perfect.

II

The substance of the flesh is that which is of Satan—

God said it exactly right, God said it exactly right—

but the facts carried out by God are not completed according to His words,

are not completed according to His words.

He curses you so that you might love Him,

and so that you might know the substance, the substance of the flesh;

He chastises you so that you might be awakened,

to allow you to know the deficiencies within you,

and to know man’s utter unworthiness.

Thus, God’s curses, His judgment, and His majesty and wrath—

they are all to make man perfect, to make man perfect.

All that God does today,

and the righteous disposition that He reveals within you—

it is all to make man perfect.

Such is the love of God.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Only by Experiencing Painful Trials Can You Know the Loveliness of God