I

God is the Creator; in how He treats created beings, He has His principles and His dispositions; it’s useless for people to have demands. They should instead learn how to understand God and submit to Him, this is the reason people ought to possess. People do not know who they are, and they always think they are someone significant, whom God should respect and raise up, or treasure and cherish. If people always have such misconceptions, such distorted and unreasonable demands, it’s very dangerous. At the very least, they will be loathed and hated by God, and if they do not repent they are at risk of being eliminated.

II

You must recognize your own identity. No matter what sort of gifts or strengths you have, nor how much skill or ability you have, nor even how much merit you’ve earned in God’s house, nor how much you’ve rushed about, nor how much capital you’ve accrued, these things are as nothing to God. You have to deny those things you think are right and to which you cling. In doing so, there will no longer be a distance between you and God, and you will stand properly in your station, and you will be able to submit and recognize all God does is right, able to deny yourself and let go of yourself. You’ll no longer treat the merit you’ve earned as a sort of capital, nor will you try any longer to set conditions with God, or make demands of Him, or ask Him for reward. At this time, you will no longer have difficulties.

III

People cannot measure their own capabilities. They rate themselves too highly and estimate their position in God’s eyes too highly, and they see what they consider to be a person’s worth and capital as the truth, as the standards by which God measures whether they’ll be saved. This is wrong. You must know what kind of place you have in God’s heart, how God views you, and the appropriate position for you to adopt when you approach God. You ought to know this principle; in this way, your views will be aligned with the truth and compatible with those of God. You must possess this reason; regardless of how He treats you, you must submit. Then there will no longer be any contradictions between you and God. And when God again treats you in His manner, you will be able to submit.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. The Attitude Man Should Have Toward God