I

When people experience God’s work,

their first knowledge of Him

is that He’s unfathomable, wise, and He is wonderful;

they unconsciously fear Him and feel the mystery of His work,

which is beyond the ken of man’s mind, beyond the ken of man’s mind.

People want only to be able

to meet God’s requirements, to satisfy His will;

they do not wish to exceed Him,

because the work He does goes beyond man’s thinking and imagination

and could not be done by man in His stead.

Even man himself doesn’t know his own inadequacies,

yet God has forged a new path

and has come to bring man into a newer and more beautiful world,

and so mankind has made new progress and has had a new start.

What people feel for God is not admiration,

or rather, is not only admiration.

Their deepest experience is fear and love;

their feeling is that God is indeed wonderful.

He does work that man is unable to do

and says things that man is unable to say.

People who have experienced God’s work

always have an indescribable feeling.

II

People of deep enough experience, they can understand the love of God;

they can feel His loveliness, that His work is so wise, so wonderful,

and thereby an infinite power is generated among them.

It’s not fright or occasional love and respect,

but a deep sense of God’s compassion for man and tolerance of him.

However, people who have experienced His chastisement and judgment

sense His majesty and that He tolerates no offense.

Even people who have experienced much of His work can’t fathom Him;

all who truly fear Him know that His work is not in line with people’s notions

but always goes against their notions.

His work is not in line with people’s notions

but always goes against their notions.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Work and Man’s Work