412 What Comes of Treating Your Faith Lightly
Verse 1
Success in belief in God
is achieved through man’s actions.
When they fail, it is only
through their actions too.
You’d do anything it takes
to achieve something
more difficult and with more
suffering than believing in God.
Pre-chorus 1
And you’d treat it seriously
with no room for errors.
These are the kinds of efforts
you all put into your lives.
Chorus
You’ll do anything for
the things you’re devoted to,
but you would not do the same
for your belief in God.
Those who lack a heart of sincerity
are failures in their belief.
Aren’t there many who fail
among you?
Verse 2
You’d deceive God’s flesh
when you would not deceive kin.
These are the principles
you live by.
What you need’s not truth and life,
nor rules of self-conduct,
or God’s painstaking work,
instead all you have in flesh.
Pre-chorus 2
You dismiss God’s work
and don’t hear His words.
God sees how lightly
you treat your faith.
Chorus
You’ll do anything for
the things you’re devoted to,
but you would not do the same
for your belief in God.
Those who lack a heart of sincerity
are failures in their belief.
Aren’t there many who fail
among you?
Verse 3
God hopes you really try
for your destination’s sake,
though you’d better not be
deceitful,
or else God will be disappointed.
And where does that lead?
Are you not fooling
yourselves?
Bridge
Those who think on their destination
yet ruin it
are the ones least able
to be saved.
Even if flustered and upset,
who would take pity on this person?
God hopes you don’t fall to disaster
and your destination is good.
Chorus
You’ll do anything for
the things you’re devoted to,
but you would not do the same
for your belief in God.
Those who lack a heart of sincerity
are failures in their belief.
Aren’t there many who fail
among you?
Adapted from “On Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh