669 Only Through Painful Trials Can You Know God’s Loveliness
Verse 1
Pursuing God’s satisfaction
is practicing God’s words with love for God.
No matter the time, if others lack strength,
inside, your heart still loves God anyway,
deeply yearns for and misses God,
this is actual stature.
Chorus
Only through hardship and refinement
can man know of God’s loveliness.
Having experienced till now,
man knows part of God’s loveliness.
But it’s still not enough, ’cause man is so lacking.
He must experience more of God’s work
and all the refinement of suffering,
man’s disposition then can be changed,
man’s disposition then can be changed.
Verse 2
How great your stature
is rests on your love for God,
if you can stand through the tests,
if you’re weak when the environment comes,
if when rejected you can stand your ground.
The arrival of facts will show
what your love for God is like.
Chorus
Only through hardship and refinement
can man know of God’s loveliness.
Having experienced till now,
man knows part of God’s loveliness.
But it’s still not enough, ’cause man is so lacking.
He must experience more of God’s work
and all the refinement of suffering,
man’s disposition then can be changed,
man’s disposition then can be changed.
Bridge
It is seen from much of God’s work
that God really loves man.
But man’s spiritual eyes aren’t fully open.
Man’s unable to see God’s will,
and much of the work of God,
and many things about God’s loveliness.
Man has little true love for God.
Chorus
Only through hardship and refinement
can man know of God’s loveliness.
Having experienced till now,
man knows part of God’s loveliness.
But it’s still not enough, ’cause man is so lacking.
He must experience more of God’s work
and all the refinement of suffering,
man’s disposition then can be changed,
man’s disposition then can be changed.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Only by Experiencing Painful Trials Can You Know the Loveliness of God