I

God indeed does a lot of work in people,

sometimes trying them, sometimes creating environments to temper them,

and sometimes speaking words to guide them and amend their shortcomings.

Sometimes the Holy Spirit leads people

to environments prepared by God for them,

and they unknowingly discover many things that they lack.

Through what people say and do,

and the way that people treat others and deal with things,

without their knowing it,

the Holy Spirit enlightens them of many things

that they didn't understand before,

allowing them to see many things and people more clearly,

allowing them to see into much of which they were previously unaware.

II

If you spend some time experiencing before God,

and come to understand God's work and His disposition,

you will unconsciously gain much insight,

and your stature will gradually grow.

You will understand many spiritual things better,

and you will be clearer about God's work in particular.

You will accept God's words, His work, His every action, His disposition,

and what He is and has as your own life.

If all you do is wander in the world, your wings will grow harder,

and your resistance against God will become greater;

how then can God use you? How then can God use you?

Because there's too much of "in my opinion" in you,

God does not use you.

III

The more you are in the presence of God, the more experiences you will have.

If you still live in the world like a beast—

your mouth professing belief in God but your heart somewhere else—

and if you still study philosophies for worldly dealings,

then will all your previous efforts not have been for nothing?

The more that people are in the presence of God,

the easier they are to be perfected by God.

This is the path by which the Holy Spirit does His work.

If you don't understand this,

it will be impossible for you to enter onto the right track,

and being perfected by God will be out of the question.

You won't be able to have a normal spiritual life;

it will be as if you are handicapped,

and you will have only your own hard work and none of God's work.

Is this not a mistake in your experiencing?

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. On Experience