I

When God gives trials to people,

what reality does He wish to create?

He is constantly asking that people give Him their hearts.

When God gives trials to people,

what reality does He wish to create?

He is constantly asking that people give Him their hearts,

give Him their hearts.

When God gives you a trial,

He sees if your heart is with Him, with the flesh, or with Satan;

He sees whether you are standing in opposition to Him

or are in a position that is compatible with Him.

He also sees whether your heart is on His side.

II

When you are immature and facing trials,

you have little confidence, 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.

But 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.

III

As you listen to more sermons and know more truths,

your stature will also gradually grow.

At this time, the standard of God’s demands

won’t be the same as it was when you were immature.

Instead, He will demand a higher standard of you.

He will demand a higher standard.

As people gradually give their hearts over to God,

their hearts grow slowly nearer to Him, slowly nearer to Him;

as people can genuinely grow nearer towards God,

they more and more come to have God-fearing hearts,

come to have God-fearing hearts.

What God wants is just such a heart.

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