832 God Has Resolved to Complete This Group of People
I
Scarcely anyone among man understands the urgency in God’s state of mind, because the caliber of human beings is too inferior and their spirit quite dull, and they all neither heed nor pay any mind to what God is doing. For this reason, God is constantly ill at ease about man, as if man’s beastly nature could break out at any moment. From this one can see even more clearly that God’s coming to earth is accompanied by immense testing. But for the sake of making a group of people complete, God, fully laden with glory, told man of His every intention, hiding nothing from him.
II
He has firmly resolved to complete this group of people, and so, come whatever hardship or test, He looks away and ignores it all. He only quietly does His own work, firmly believing that one day when God has come into possession of His glory, man will know Him, and believing that, once man has been completed by God, he will fully understand God’s heart. Right now there may be people testing God, or misunderstanding God, or complaining against God; God takes none of these to heart. When God descends into glory, people will all understand that everything God does is for the happiness of mankind, and they will all understand that everything God does is so that mankind may better survive.
from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Work and Entry (4)