I

The scene described in the Bible

“God’s Command to Adam” is a moving and heartwarming picture.

Although there is only God and man in it,

the intimacy between them

fills you with a sense of admiration, a sense of admiration.

God’s overflowing love is freely bestowed upon man,

God’s love surrounds man;

man is innocent and pure, unencumbered and carefree,

blissfully living under God’s eye;

God shows concern for man, man lives under God’s protection;

everything man does and says is closely

linked to and inseparable from God.

II

God has felt a responsibility toward man

since the moment He created him.

What is His responsibility?

He has to protect man, to look after man.

He hopes man can trust His words,

hopes man can trust and obey His words.

This is also God’s first expectation, first expectation of man.

III

It is with this expectation that God says the following:

“Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it:

for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.”

These simple words represent God’s intention.

They also reveal that, in His heart,

God has begun to show concern, show concern for man.

IV

In these few simple words, we see God’s heart.

Is there love in God’s heart? Is there concern?

God’s love and concern can be appreciated, and also intimately felt.

As a person with a conscience and humanity,

you would feel warmth, you would feel cared for and loved,

and you would feel happiness, feel happiness.

V

When you feel these things, how will you act toward God?

Would you feel attached to God?

Would you love and respect God from your heart?

Would your heart grow closer to God?

You can see from this just how important God’s love is to man.

But what is even more crucial is that

man can appreciate and comprehend God’s love.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself I