I

If people believe in God

and experience God’s words with a God-fearing heart,

then in such people there can be seen God’s salvation and God’s love.

These people can testify of God; they live out the truth;

what they testify to is the truth, what God is and God’s disposition.

They live amid God’s love; they see it.

If people wish to love God,

they must taste God’s loveliness and see God’s loveliness;

only then can there be roused in them a God-loving heart,

a heart that inspires people to give of themselves loyally for God.

II

God does not make people love Him through words or their imagination,

and He doesn't force people to love Him,

but lets them love Him of their own volition;

He lets them see His loveliness in His work and utterances,

after which there is borne in them the love of God.

Only in this way can people truly bear testimony to God.

People don’t love God because they’ve been urged to do so by others,

nor is it a momentary emotional impulse.

They love God because they’ve seen His loveliness,

they’ve seen there’s so much of Him that’s worthy of people’s love,

and they have seen God’s salvation, wisdom, and wondrous deeds—

and as a result,

they truly praise God and truly yearn for Him,

and there’s roused in them such a passion

that they could not survive without gaining God,

they could not survive without gaining God.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Those Who Love God Will Forever Live Within His Light