Let us go beyond God’s words and talk a little about matters concerning our lives, so that our lives bloom more, and we live up to God’s hopes for us. In particular, with the arrival of today—a time of each being sorted according to their kind, and a time of chastisement—there is a greater need to focus on the bigger picture and concentrate on the “collective interest.” This is the intention of God, and it is what should be achieved by all people. How could we not offer up ourselves for the intention of God in heaven? God “assigns numbers for all kinds of people, makes different marks on every sort of person, so that their ancestors can bring them back to their families,” which shows that people have been sorted according to their kind, and as a result, all kinds of people are revealing their true forms. As such, it is more fitting to say that people give loyal service to their ancestors, rather than to God. However, all people are also rendering service to God under the direction of their ancestors, which is the wondrousness of God’s work. All things are rendering service for God, and even though Satan disturbs people, God uses this opportunity to draw on “local resources” to serve Him. People, however, cannot discern this. As God says: “Thus, I also implement ‘labor allocation’ and ‘collaboration and division of labor.’ This is part of My plan, and can be disrupted by no man.” People cannot clearly see all that is determined by God, and all that God wishes to accomplish, before He has done it. They can only see it when God’s work has been completed; if not, they are blind, and see nothing.

Today, God has new work among the churches. He makes everything follow the course of nature, truly bringing to bear the function of man. As God says: “I hold sovereignty over everything among all things, I rule over everything among all things, causing all that there is to follow the course of nature and to surrender to the command of nature.” I do not know what clever insights you have into “following the course of nature,” so let us talk about this. This is how I see it: Because they are led home by their ancestors, all kinds and varieties of people must come forth and “perform.” And because they are following the course of nature, that which is inherent to them is used to bring their original function to bear, making them follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit according to this law. The work of the Holy Spirit is carried out according to the state within each person; this is what is properly called “God maneuvering all things to render service to Him,” this is then connected to following the course of nature. Even if a person is inwardly constituted of the devil, God shall make use of this, adding the work of the Holy Spirit to the foundation of what is inherently within them, making them sufficient to render service to God. This is all I will say about “following the course of nature”—perhaps you have some better suggestions. I hope you can provide some valued input. What do you say? Are you willing to cooperate in following the course of nature? Are you willing to engage in “collaboration and division of labor” with God? Have you ever thought about how to achieve this? I hope that people are able to understand God’s intentions, for the sake of our shared aspirations—being of one mind in satisfying God, and for the sake of advancing together on the road to the kingdom. What need is there to come up with unnecessary notions? Whose existence up until today has not been for the sake of God? And since it is thus, what need is there for sorrow, grief, and sighing? This is of no benefit to anyone. People’s entire lives are in the hands of God, and if it were not for their resolve before God, who would be willing to live in vain in this empty world of man? Why subject themselves to such misery? Rushing in and out of the world, if they do not do anything for God, will their entire lives not have been wasted? Even if God does not deem your actions worthy of mention, will you not give a smile of gratification at the moment of your death? You should seek to make progress on the positive side of things, rather than retreat on the negative side—is this not better practice? If your actions are purely for the sake of satisfying God, then you will not be negative or retreat. Because there are always things that are unfathomable in people’s hearts, without them realizing it, their faces often become like an overcast sky, which leads to several “trenches” appearing on their faces without them knowing, formed as if by the sundering of the ground. It is as if, because of a shift in the terrain, the earth’s “hilly areas” or “depressions” have also shifted position without people realizing. In this, I am not mocking people, but speaking of “geographical knowledge.”

Though God has led all people into chastisement, He says nothing of this. Instead, He deliberately avoids this topic and starts a new one, which in one regard is because of God’s work, and in another, is in order to immediately complete this step of work. Because God’s aims in carrying out this step of work have long since been achieved, there is no need to say any more. Today, I do not know how much you have seen of the methods of God’s work; in My consciousness, I always feel that God’s work is not as clearly divided into stages and time periods as it used to be. Instead, each day brings its own means of working, change occurs almost every three to five days, and even in five days, there might be two different kinds of content to the work of God. This shows the speed of God’s work; before people have had the time to react and peer closely, God is gone without a trace. Thus, God is always ungraspable to people, which has led to the work of the Holy Spirit not being obvious. Why does God always say words such as “and so I left man”? People might take note of such words a little, but they do not understand their meaning. How about now, do you understand? No wonder people cannot feel the presence of the Holy Spirit. Their search for God is always beneath hazy moonlight—this is completely true—and it is as if God is deliberately making fun of man, making the brains of all people swell, and causing them to feel addleheaded and disoriented. They barely know what they are doing; it is as if they are dreaming, and once they awaken, they do not know what happened. All it takes are some ordinary words from God to leave people at a loss. No wonder, then, that God says: “Today, I cast all people into the ‘great furnace’ to be refined. I stand up high watching closely, and see that people are burning in the fire and that, forced by the flames, people are offering forth the facts.” Amid God’s ever-changing words, people have no idea what to do; in fact, just as God says, chastisement has long since begun. Because people have not realized this, they only know when God says so explicitly; they only begin to pay attention after God has told them. It can be said that people only begin to study chastisement now that God’s work has been carried out to this point. It is just like when people first learned of the atomic bomb—because the time had not yet come, they didn’t pay it much attention; only when someone began to build one did people begin to pay attention. Only when the atomic bomb made an appearance did people understand more of it. Only when God says He has cast man into the furnace do people become a little aware. If God did not speak, no one would know—is it not so? So, God says: “People unwittingly enter the furnace, as if they have been pulled in by a rope, as if they have grown numb.” Why not analyze it this way: When people offer forth the facts, is it when God says that chastisement has begun, or prior to when God says that chastisement has begun? From this it can be seen that, before God spoke of chastisement, people began to confess, showing that chastisement began before God spoke of it—is this not fact?