I

Right now, each day you live through is crucial,

and it’s of the utmost importance to your destination and fate,

so you must cherish everything you have today,

and treasure each minute that passes.

You must carve out as much time as you can

to give yourselves the greatest gains

so that you will not have lived this life in vain,

you will not have lived this life in vain.

You may feel confused about why God speaks such words.

To be frank, God is not at all pleased by the behavior of any of you,

for the hopes He had of you were not as you are today,

were not as you are today.

II

Each one of you is on the brink of danger,

and your erstwhile cries for help

and former aspirations to pursue the truth and seek the light

are approaching their end.

This is your final display of recompense toward God,

and it is something God never expected.

God does not wish to speak contrary to the facts,

for you have greatly disappointed Him.

Perhaps you do not wish to take this lying down,

do not wish to face reality—

yet God must ask you this seriously:

In all these years, what exactly have your hearts been filled with?

To whom are they loyal?

III

It is because God knows you too well,

it is because God cares for you too much,

and has invested too much of His heart in your conduct and deeds

that He has called you to account without cease and borne bitter hardship.

Yet you repay God with nothing more than

indifference and unbearable resignation.

You have been so remiss toward God;

could it be possible that He knows nothing of it?

If this is what you believe,

it further proves the fact that you do not truly treat God with kindness.

And so God says that you are burying your heads in the sand.

You are all so clever that you don’t even know what you’re doing—

so what will you use to give an account to God?

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. To Whom Are You Loyal?