Today, it should be clear to all of you that, in the last days, it is principally the fact of “the Word becomes flesh” that is accomplished by God. Through His practical work on earth, He allows man to know Him and to engage with Him, and to see His practical deeds. He allows man to clearly see that He is able to perform signs and wonders and that there are also times when He is unable to do so; this depends on the age. From this, you can see that God is not incapable of performing signs and wonders, but instead changes His way of working according to the work to be done and according to the age. In the current stage of work, He does not perform signs and wonders; He performed some signs and wonders in the age of Jesus because His work in that age was different. God does not do that work today, and some people believe Him incapable of performing signs and wonders, or they think that since He does not perform signs and wonders, then He is not God. Is that not a fallacy? God is able to perform signs and wonders, but He is working in a different age, so He does not do such work. In different ages and according to the different stages of His work, God manifests different deeds. Man’s belief in God is not the belief in signs and wonders, nor the belief in miracles, but the belief in His practical work during the new age. Man comes to know God through the manner in which God works, and this knowledge produces in man the belief in God, which is to say, the belief in the work and deeds of God. In this stage of work, God mainly speaks. Do not wait to see signs and wonders; you will not see any! This is because you were not born during the Age of Grace. If you had been, you could have seen signs and wonders, but you were born during the last days, and so you can see only the practicality and normality of God. Do not expect to see the supernatural Jesus during the last days. You are only able to see the practical God incarnate, who is no different from any normal human being. In each age, God manifests different deeds. In each age, He manifests part of His deeds, and the work of each age represents one part of the disposition of God, and one part of the deeds of God. The deeds that He manifests vary with the age in which He works, but they all allow man’s knowledge of God to deepen, and allow man to have a truer and more solid belief in God. Man believes in God because of all of the deeds of God, because God is so wondrous, so great, and almighty, and because He is unfathomable—that is why man believes in God. If you believe in God because He is able to perform signs and wonders and can heal the sick and cast out demons, then your view is wrong, and some people will say to you, “Are not evil spirits also able to do such things?” Does this not constitute confusing the image of God with the image of Satan? Today, man’s belief in God is because of His many deeds and the great amount of work He does and the many ways in which He speaks. God conquers man and makes him perfect through His words. Man believes in God because of His many deeds, not because He is able to show signs and wonders; people only get to know God by witnessing His deeds. Only by knowing the practical deeds of God, how He works, what wise methods He uses, how He speaks, and how He makes man perfect—only by knowing these aspects—can you comprehend the practicality of God and understand His disposition, knowing what He likes, what He loathes, and how He works upon man. By understanding what God likes and what He loathes, you can differentiate between that which is positive and negative, and through your knowledge of God there is progress in your life. In short, you must gain a knowledge of God’s work, and you must rectify your views about believing in God.

—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Knowledge of God's Present Work