687 Failure Is the Best Opportunity to Know Yourself
Verse 1
In your faith, learn to
experience God’s work and submit to God.
Submitting to Him is a truth,
and is required of human beings.
If you can seek in the direction
of submitting to God,
then you’ve set foot on
the right path of truly believing.
Pre-chorus 1
Having failed and fallen time and again,
having been exposed is not a bad thing.
Whether you’ve been dealt with, pruned or exposed,
remember always:
Chorus
Being exposed is not being condemned;
it’s the best chance to know yourself.
It can bring change for your life experience.
Without this, you won’t possess
the chance, the context or condition
to know the truth of your corruption.
Verse 2
If you can know the things in you,
including all that’s concealed,
things deep within, hard to perceive, unearth,
then that’s a good thing.
To come to truly know yourself
is the best opportunity
for you to mend your ways
and thus become a new human being.
Pre-chorus 2
Once you truly know yourself, you will see
to have truth as one’s life is precious indeed.
You’ll thirst for truth, enter reality.
This is such a great thing!
Chorus
Being exposed is not being condemned;
it’s the best chance to know yourself.
It can bring change for your life experience.
Without this, you won’t possess
the chance, the context or condition
to know the truth of your corruption.
Bridge
If you grab this opportunity, reflect on yourself earnestly
and gain true knowledge of yourself whenever you fail or fall down,
you will be able to stand back up in weakness and negativity.
Once you’ve crossed this threshold,
you can have great growth, enter truth’s reality.
Chorus
Being exposed is not being condemned;
it’s the best chance to know yourself.
It can bring change for your life experience.
Without this, you won’t possess
the chance, the context or condition
to know the truth of your corruption.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. To Gain the Truth, One Must Learn From the People, Matters, and Things Nearby