By Anxin, China

My mom suffered a lot in raising my younger brother and me. She often said that as long as my brother and I had good lives, any amount of hardship was worth it. I was convinced my mom was the person who loved me most in the world, and that everything she did was for my own good. As I got older, my marriage became my parents’ biggest concern. When I was twenty-three, my mom would often nag me, saying, “You’re a grown woman now. It’s time to find a suitable partner. If you wait any longer, all the good men will be taken.” I felt that marriage is a lifelong commitment that should be approached with caution; I didn’t want to get married so casually. Besides, I wasn’t that old at the time, so I’d put her off by saying, “There’s no rush. I’ll start dating when I find the right person.” That happened to be the year I accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days. By reading God’s words, I found out this is the final stage of God’s work to save humanity, and an incredibly rare opportunity to be perfected by God. I had to urgently do my duty and earnestly pursue the truth. Getting married at a time like this could easily ruin my chance of being saved. So, I became even more cautious about marriage and kept putting off finding someone. My mom was very anxious. Whenever someone tried to set me up with a man, she would urge me to meet him. I hated it. It felt like she was trying to sell me as if I were a product. Plus, I’m quite introverted and I hated that way of dating, so I really didn’t want to go on those arranged dates. But I felt helpless when my mom pressured me to get married. She had suffered a lot in raising my brother and me, and she often told us how hard it had been. Due to the sayings, “A parent’s love is praiseworthy” and “The parent is always right,” I just felt that whatever she did was for my own good. To avoid hurting her, I’d obey her and go on the dates she arranged, no matter how much I didn’t want to. But I knew this is a critical time in God’s work, and that dating and marriage would interfere with my belief in God. So most of the time, I’d go on these arranged dates, and then find an excuse later and say we weren’t compatible. That’s how I would brush it off. Then in 2013, when I was twenty-five, I met a man on a blind date who was just my type. He was steady and good to his parents, and my mom really liked him. I thought to myself, “I can try dating him. I’ll preach the gospel to him, and then we can believe in God together.” I spoke to him about believing in God three times, but he would only listen half-heartedly, and say with a smile, “Believing in God is a good thing. I won’t stop you from doing it.” I was so disappointed, and it made me worry that if we actually got together, he might give me the same kind of opposition and persecution that other sisters experienced from their husbands. We dated for over four months, and the longer we spent time together, the more I liked him. I thought, “We’ve only been together for a few months, but my mind is already filled with these things. I can’t do my duty properly, I’m just going through the motions in gatherings, and I’m not putting my heart into reading God’s words. If we actually get married, won’t I be consumed by these trivial family matters every day and unable to focus completely on my duty? I can’t just blindly rush into marriage.” But my parents wanted us to get married just four months later. I was terrified that marriage would truly ruin my chance of being saved in my belief in God. But I couldn’t bear to break up with him. It was so rare to find someone I liked, and I didn’t want to give him up. Besides, my parents and my grandmother all liked him. If I didn’t marry him, my parents would be so disappointed and would just keep worrying about my marriage. A constant battle raged in my heart, and I didn’t know what to do. In my pain, I prayed to God, asking Him to guide me to make the right choice. Later, I read these words from the Lord Jesus: “And woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!” (Matthew 24:19). I also read these words from Almighty God: “Some people’s families oppress them so that they are unable to believe in God unless they get married. In this way, marriage, conversely, is helpful for them. For others, marriage brings no benefits, but costs them what they once had. Your own case must be determined by your actual circumstances and by your own resolve. I am not here to invent rules and stipulations with which to make demands of you” (The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Practice (7)). From God’s words, I understood that giving up marriage for the sake of the truth is a valuable thing. By doing this, I would have more time and energy to do my duty and pursue the truth. If I lost the chance to do my duty because of marriage, and ultimately failed to gain the truth or be saved, I would have lost far more than what I would have gained. The great catastrophes have already begun, and there isn’t much time left. I have to seize this time to equip myself with the truth. Right now, I’m not married and have no family entanglements, so I can do my duty full-time. If I got married, I’d definitely be stuck at home all day long. I’m also a very sentimental person, so if I actually started a family in the future, I’d definitely neglect my duty because of my feelings, and that would ruin my chance of being saved. After thinking it over and over, I finally decided to break up with him. When my mom found out, she was anxious and angry. She tried to persuade me out of it, saying, “Your father and I are getting old, and my health isn’t good. We can’t take care of you forever! We know this family inside and out. If you get married soon, your father and I can finally lay this emotional burden down.” Hearing my mom say this made me really sad. My parents were worrying so much about my marriage every day that it had become an emotional burden. They had already been through so much worry in raising me. Instead of sharing their load and easing the pressure on them, I was becoming their biggest burden. I was full of self-reproach, like I was being an unfilial daughter. Even though this man was my type, he wasn’t interested in believing in God. We had different views and were on different paths. We wouldn’t be happy living together. And during the few months we dated, I didn’t feel the joy of a relationship, but rather constant spiritual torment. I was always worried that after marriage, my family would become an entanglement and obstacle holding me back in my pursuit of the truth and ruin my chance of being saved. When I thought of this, my attitude firmed and I chose to break up with him. After that, my mom’s attitude toward me changed. Sometimes she’d lose her temper and yell at me furiously, “Who believes in God that seriously? What a girl really should do is find a good family to marry into and take care of everyone, young and old!” Sometimes she’d also say nasty things to provoke me. I felt really sad, but I didn’t blame her. As the saying goes, “The parent is always right.” I felt that no matter what she did, it was for my own good. After all, “The deeper the love, the harsher the reproach.” She was just worried about my marriage, and she yelled at me because she was so anxious for me. So I just endured it silently.

At Chinese New Year and other holidays, my parents would see other families’ daughters visiting their parents happily with their husbands and children, while I always came home alone. They would look so worried and sigh constantly. Every time, my mom would try to talk some sense into me, saying, “Look at so-and-so. She’s married and her in-laws treat her so well. How wonderful it would be if you found a good family to marry into, with more people to care for you. Then your father and I could finally relax. If you don’t hurry up and take this seriously, what will you do if you can’t find a good man later? I’m your mother. Would I ever harm you? I’m only doing this for your own good.” Seeing my parents so anxious, worried and constantly sighing with distress over my marriage all day long, I felt terrible and full of guilt. I was already an adult, but I was still causing them so much worry. I was so unfilial! Later, I experienced something that made me realize that my parents’ so-called “goodness” to me wasn’t really them being good to me at all.

One day in 2017, my dad fell off a ladder and hurt his back. When I got home that evening, my mom said to me angrily, “Do you know why your father fell? It’s because he’s so worried about you! He worries so much he can’t sleep or eat, and his hair is turning white from worry. This whole family has been worried sick over your marriage. How can you be so selfish? You only think about yourself and have no idea what it’s like to be a parent!” Hearing her say that, I felt deeply guilty. My mom saw me hanging my head in silence and continued, “Don’t you know? Because you’re not married, your father and I can’t hold our heads high in front of others. The neighbors all talk about how you’re thirty and still not married. You’ve brought so much shame on your father and me!” Hearing my mom say this, I was really shocked and hurt. I didn’t understand. I just hadn’t gotten married; it wasn’t like I’d done something shameful. How was that something that would leave them unable to hold their heads high? So I asked her, “How does my not being married bring shame on you? I haven’t done anything bad. Isn’t being unmarried better than being one of those people who just fool around with anyone? Marriage is for life. I can’t just get married to anyone so you won’t lose face! Besides, if I got married and it didn’t work out and I got divorced, wouldn’t that bring even more shame on you?” In a belittling, sarcastic tone, my mom said, “So what if you get divorced? You just find someone else! Everyone does it these days. Being able to find a man is a real skill! Look at your cousin. She was divorced for just six months and already found someone new. Now that’s what I call capable! And what do you have? Even a cripple would be good enough for you.” My mom’s words deeply pierced my heart. I couldn’t believe my own mother could say such things. Suddenly, she felt like a complete stranger. I went back to my room and cried my eyes out. I never imagined the mother who had always doted on me could say something so heartless. Was she really doing this for my own good? Was this real love? In my pain, I prayed to God, “Oh God, I know that without such piercing words, my heart would never have been truly stung. But I still feel like my mom is the one who treats me best. God, I don’t know how to experience this. Please enlighten and guide me so I can understand Your intentions.”

Later, I thought of God’s words: “Why are children dutiful to their parents? Why do parents care deeply for their children? What is people’s intent all aimed at? Isn’t it all aimed at fulfilling their own plans and selfish desires? Do they truly mean to act for the sake of God’s management plan? Are they really acting for the sake of God’s work? Is their intent to fulfill the duties of a created being?” (The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together). “Who bears the greatest burden for their life? (God.) God alone loves people the most. Do people’s parents and relatives really love them? Is the love that they give true love? Can it save people from the influence of Satan? It cannot. People are numb and dull-witted, unable to see these things clearly, and always say, ‘I just cannot feel how God loves me. Anyway, my mother and father love me the most. They pay for my studies and get me to learn technical skills, so that I can make something of myself when I grow up, rise above others, and become a star, a celebrity. My parents spend so much money to cultivate me and support me in my education, scrimping and saving on food. How great a love is that! I can’t ever repay them!’ Do you think that is love? What are the consequences of your parents pushing you to rise above others, become a celebrity in the world, have a good job, and assimilate into the world? They relentlessly make you seek to rise above others, bring honor to your family, and integrate into the evil trends of the world. As a result, you fall into the vortex of sin, suffer perdition, and perish, being devoured by Satan. Is that love? That is not loving you, that is harming you, ruining you. If someday you sink so low that you cross the point of no return, so low that you are not able to extricate yourself, and you descend into hell, only then will you realize, ‘Oh, parental love is love of the flesh, and it is not beneficial to believing in God or gaining the truth—it is not true love!’ You may not have realized this yet. Some people say, ‘I cannot feel how God loves me. I still feel that my mother loves me the most. She is the closest person in the world to me. There is a song called “Mom Is the Best in the World.” This reflects reality; this statement is absolutely true!’ Someday, when you really have life entry, and when you have gained the truth, you will say, ‘My mother is not the one who loves me the most, nor is it my father. God loves me the most, and He is my dearest beloved, because He gave me life, and He is always leading me, providing for me, and has saved me from the influence of Satan. God alone is the One who provides life to people, who leads people, and who has sovereignty over all things.’ Only when you understand the truth and have completely gained the truth will you be able to appreciate these words deeply” (The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. To Gain the Truth, One Must Learn Lessons From the People, Events, and Things Nearby). Before, I couldn’t really accept these two passages of God’s words. I felt that my parents were the people who loved me most in the world, especially my mom, who had suffered so much to raise my brother and me. When she scolded me for not getting married, wasn’t that what the saying, “The deeper the love, the harsher the reproach” refers to? I thought my mom just wanted me to find a good family and be happy, and that they were the only people in the world who would never trick or harm me. But when I read these words of God again after experiencing this, I could finally accept them. My mom claimed it was for my own good, for me to marry into a good family and be happy. But really, she was just thinking about her own pride, so people wouldn’t gossip behind her back, and she could hold her head high before others. That’s why she wanted me to get married quickly to anyone who would have me—even saying a cripple would do. She wasn’t thinking about my happiness at all! My mom’s love contained impurities. She was only thinking of herself and she didn’t truly love me. Moreover, she desperately wanted me to get married so she could use marriage as a trap, to make me live a life of attending to my husband and raising my children at home and stop me from believing in God and doing my duty. I finally saw that my mom wasn’t really looking out for my interests; she was trying to lead me away from God, dragging me into Satan’s den! If I had actually listened to her, my flesh would have been satisfied, but I would have less time and energy to do my duty and pursue the truth. In the end, I would have ruined my chance of being saved. The view of marriage my mom taught me was wrong. It would make me disrespect marriage, and treat marriage and divorce like a game. She couldn’t point me to the correct path in life. It was the truth expressed by God that gave me the correct pursuits in life. For example, God tells us to respect marriage and not commit fornication; this is a manifestation of normal humanity. Also, fulfilling the duty of a created being is the most meaningful kind of life, and only by pursuing the truth and a change in disposition can we be saved and survive. Through God’s words, I saw clearly that my mom’s love for me was not true love. God is the One who loves me most.

I had always considered my parents to be the closest people to me. I never discerned which of their actions were right and which were wrong, and I didn’t know how to treat them correctly. It wasn’t until I read God’s words that I gained some discernment of them. Almighty God says: “One day, when you understand some of the truth, you will no longer think that your mother is the best person, or that your parents are the best people. You will realize that they are also members of the corrupt human race, that their corrupt dispositions are all the same, that all that sets them apart is the ties of blood between you, and that if they don’t believe in God, then they are the same as the nonbelievers. You will no longer look at them from the perspective of a family member, or from the perspective of your fleshly relationship, but from the side of the truth. What are the main aspects you should look at? You should look at their views on belief in God, their views on the world, their views when handling matters, and most importantly, their attitudes toward God. If you view these aspects accurately, you will be able to see clearly whether they are good or bad people. One day you may see clearly that they are people with corrupt dispositions just like you, and that they are not the kind-hearted people who have real love for you that you imagined them to be, nor are they able to lead you to the truth or onto the right path in life at all. You may see clearly that what they have done for you is of no great benefit to you, and that it is of no help to you in walking the right path in life. You may also find that many of their actions and opinions go against the truth, are of the flesh, and make you feel contempt, repulsion, and detestation. If you come to see these things, you will then be able to treat your parents correctly in your heart, and you will no longer miss them, be concerned about them, or be unable to live apart from them; they have completed their mission as parents. You will no longer treat them as the closest people to you or idolize them. Instead, you will treat them as ordinary people, and at that time, you will completely break free from the bondage of affection and truly emerge from affection and family love. Once you’ve walked away from affection and family love, you will realize that those things are not worth cherishing. At that point, you will see that relatives, family, and fleshly relationships are stumbling blocks to understanding the truth and to freeing yourself from affection. You will see that because you have that familial relationship, that fleshly relationship, with your parents, which paralyzes you and leads you astray, you believe that they are the closest to you, care for you better than anyone, and love you the most, and are rendered unable to clearly discern if they are good or bad people. Once you have truly walked away from affection, will you still miss them with all of your heart, dwell on them, and feel concern for them the way you do now when you think of them from time to time? You won’t. You won’t say: ‘The person I really can’t be without is my mother; she is the one who loves me, takes care of me, and cares for me the most.’ When you have this level of perception, will you still miss them so much you cry? No. This problem will be resolved” (The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Only Resolving One’s Corrupt Dispositions Can Bring About True Transformation). In the past, I treated my mom as the person closest to me. I felt that since she was my mom, whatever she did was for my own good. She was always pushing me to go on arranged dates and get married. Even though I hated it and it repulsed me, I would still go on these arranged dates in accordance with her wishes. Seeing my parents constantly worried and anxious about my marriage made me feel guilty, and I blamed myself for not being a filial and obedient daughter. The truth is, my mom instilled in me a mistaken view of marriage, but because of our blood relationship, I had no discernment of her at all. God tells us to respect marriage and not engage in fornication, but my mom treated marriage like a game. She saw being able to find more partners as a sign of being capable. My cousins, for example, don’t respect marriage and treat it like a game, getting married and divorced on a whim. My older cousin was married, but was a mistress to a married man, committing fornication. My mom didn’t see this as shameful or disgraceful; she actually thought it was being capable. I was cautious about marriage. I didn’t want to rush in and out of it or date around carelessly like others. For this, my mom scolded me for being incapable and said that by not getting married, I was making them lose face and stopping them from holding their heads high. My mom had accepted ideas from evil trends and could no longer tell right from wrong; she had gotten right and wrong upside down. Her perspective on things was completely distorted. All along, I had been blinded by our family bond, always thinking that whatever my mom did was for my own good. But in reality, she was living by Satan’s laws of survival, and she couldn’t help being fooled and harmed by Satan. How could she lead me onto the right path in life? Only then did I gain some discernment of my mom and stopped blaming myself for not meeting their requirements.

In 2018, I was sold out by a Judas for my faith in God. People from the National Security Brigade came to my house to arrest me, but since I was doing my duty elsewhere, I escaped disaster. I haven’t dared to go home since then. Free from my parents’ pressure to marry, I was able to dedicate my heart to my duty more, and understood more of the truth than before.

In 2024, God fellowshipped about and dissected the fallacious view that “The parent is always right.” I was very moved when I read it. Almighty God says: “‘The parent is always right.’ So what does this saying mean? It means that no matter whether what your parents do is right or wrong, basically because your parents gave birth to you and raised you, as far as you are concerned everything your parents do is right. You cannot judge whether they are right or wrong, nor can you reject them, let alone resist them. This is called filial piety. Even if your parents have done wrong, and even if some of their ideas and views are outdated or mistaken, or the way they educate you and their ideas and views they educate you with are not correct or positive, you mustn’t doubt or reject them, because there is a saying about that—‘The parent is always right.’ When it comes to parents, you should never discern or judge whether they are right or wrong, because as far as children are concerned, their lives and everything they possess come from their parents. No one stands above your parents, so if you have a conscience, you should not criticize them. No matter how wrong, incorrect, or imperfect your parents are, they are still your parents. They are the people who are closest to you, who raised you, and who gave you life. Does everyone not accept this saying? And precisely because this mentality exists, your parents think they can treat you unscrupulously, and use various methods to steer you toward doing all manner of things, and instill various ideas into you. From their point of view, they think, ‘My motives are correct, this is for your own good. Everything you have was given to you by me. You were born and raised by me, so however I treat you I cannot be in the wrong, because everything I do is for your own good and I wouldn’t hurt you or harm you.’ From children’s perspective, is it right that their attitude toward their parents should be based on this saying, ‘The parent is always right’? (No, it’s wrong.) It certainly is wrong. … How should we view this matter according to the truth? What would be the correct way of putting it? Are children’s bodies and lives given to them by their parents? (No.) A person’s fleshly body is born of their parents, but where does the parents’ ability to have children come from? (It is given by God and comes from God.) What about a person’s soul? Where does it come from? It also comes from God. So at the root, people are created by God, and all of this was preordained by Him. It was God who preordained you to be born into this family. God sent a soul to this family, and then you were born of this family, and you have this predestined relationship with your parents—this was preordained by God. It is only because of God’s sovereignty and ordination that your parents had you, and that you were born into this family. This is looking at it from the root” (The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. How to Pursue the Truth (13)). “As everyone lives among this evil human race, they all grow up in an environment in which they accept the traditional ways of their families, state education, and social conditioning. What people take in are all the various ideas and views that come from the evil world, which ultimately are all kinds of heresies and fallacies from Satan, are not in line with the truth at all, and have no truth in them; even more than this, people do not understand what the truth is. From this point of view, parents and their children are equal and have the same ideas and views. It’s just that parents accepted these ideas and views 20 or 30 years previously, whereas children accepted them slightly later. That is to say, given the same social background, as long as you are a normal person, both you and your parents have accepted the same corruption from Satan, the conditioning of social mores, and the same ideas and views that stem from the various evil trends in society. From this point of view, children are the same type as their parents. … And because parents give birth to and raise their children and have this special status, children should be devoted to their parents and fulfill their obligations to them. This is the only responsibility people have toward their parents. But because parents and children are corrupt humans all the same, parents are not moral exemplars for their children, nor are they examples or role models for their children in their pursuit of the truth, much less role models for their children in terms of worshiping and submitting to God. Of course, parents are not the embodiment of the truth either. Children should not regard their parents as moral exemplars, much less do they have any obligation or responsibility to obey them unconditionally. Children should also not be afraid to exercise discernment toward their parents’ actions, behavior, and disposition essence. That is, children should not adhere to the idea that ‘The parent is always right’ when it comes to how they treat their parents. This view is based on the special status of parents, which is that they gave birth to their children under God’s preordination, and so, in terms of the flesh, their status and their generation within the family are different from their children’s. Because of this difference, people regard their parents as a class of people who are never wrong. Is this correct? (No.) This is irrational and does not accord with the truth” (The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. How to Pursue the Truth (13)).

From God’s words, I understood that “The parent is always right” is a mistaken idea that Satan instills in us through family education and social conditioning. It makes us feel that our parents are the closest people to us and the ones who love us most, so we should unconditionally accept everything they teach us. We never consider whether their words are correct, simply believing that whatever parents do is for our own good. We feel that children shouldn’t judge whether their parents are right or wrong, but should just obey unconditionally. These thoughts and ideas lead us to listen to and obey our parents without any principle at all. This is blind filial piety, and it leads us down the wrong path. I had been living by this view that “The parent is always right.” I believed that no matter what my parents did, it was for my own good—that they loved me more than anyone else in the world and would never harm me. I accepted whatever they said unconditionally and without principle. I never tried to discern whether their standards for conducting themselves and acting were right or wrong; I just blindly trusted and obeyed them. From God’s words, I understood that my parents, just like me, are people who have been corrupted by Satan. Their ideas and perspectives also come from Satan. What they say is not the truth and is not always correct. I shouldn’t blindly obey everything my parents say or treat and submit to their words as if they were the truth. I thought about how my mom believed in the Lord Jesus, but was just a believer in name only. In her thoughts and ideas, she believed that “When men are of age, they should marry; when women are of age, they should wed.” She believed a grown woman should get married, start a family, and live a life that revolved around her family, husband, and children—that this was the only way to lead a normal life. She saw faith in God as just a belief, something that shouldn’t interfere with daily life. That’s why she kept pressuring me to get married quickly and didn’t want me to believe in God and do my duty. She didn’t care about the character or humanity of the man I might marry. Her attitude toward my marriage was very irresponsible. She was even willing for me to marry a disabled man, or to get repeatedly married and divorced, just to protect her own face and stop people from saying she had an old, unmarried daughter. My mom also wanted to use marriage to hinder my faith in God. If I had followed her words, I would have only drifted further and further from God and ultimately ruined my life. God’s work in the last days to save people is an incredibly rare opportunity. The fact that I’m not married and have no family entanglements, allowing me to easily walk the path of faith, is a good thing. Being able to follow God and do the duty of a created being is the most valuable and meaningful thing. This was the most correct choice for me to make.

Later, I read more of God’s words and learned how I should treat my parents. God says: “In treating your parents, you should first rationally step outside of this blood relationship and discern your parents using the truths you have already accepted and understood. Discern your parents based on their thoughts, views, and motives regarding how to act and conduct oneself, and on their principles and methods of how to act and conduct oneself, which will confirm that they too are people corrupted by Satan. View them and discern them from the perspective of truth, rather than always thinking that your parents are lofty, selfless, and kind to you, and if you look at them that way, you will never discover what issues they have. Don’t view your parents from the perspective of your family ties, or your role as a son or daughter. Step outside of this sphere and look at how they deal with the world, with the truth, and with people, events, and things. Also, more specifically, look at the ideas and views that your parents have conditioned into you as regards how you should view people and things, and how you should conduct yourself and act—this is how you should recognize and discern them. In this way, their character and the fact that they have been corrupted by Satan will become clear little by little. What kind of people are they? If they aren’t believers, what is their attitude toward people who do believe in God? If they are believers, what is their attitude toward the truth? Are they people who pursue the truth? Do they love the truth? Do they like positive things? What is their outlook on life and the world? And so on. If you can discern your parents based on these things, you will have a clear idea. Once these matters are clear, the lofty, noble, and unshakable status of your parents in your mind will change. And when it changes, the motherly and fatherly love shown by your parents—along with their specific words and actions, and those lofty images you hold of them—will no longer be so deeply imprinted in your mind” (The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. How to Pursue the Truth (13)). From God’s words, I understood that I have to have principles in treating my parents and discernment of what they say. They are also corrupted human beings, and their thoughts and perspectives are full of Satan’s various poisons. If what my parents say aligns with the truth, I can listen to them. If it doesn’t, I cannot obey. The most accurate way is to view people and things and conduct myself and act according to God’s words. My mom’s view was that if you get along in a marriage, you stay together, and if you don’t, you get divorced. She saw being able to find more partners as a sign of being capable. Her view of marriage was distorted and went against God’s requirements. I shouldn’t blindly obey her. At the same time, I also understood that marriage is down to God’s sovereignty and arrangements; it’s preordained by Him. It has nothing to do with personal preferences or parental expectations. I shouldn’t live to fulfill my parents’ hopes or treat their expectations as my burden. The correct attitude toward my own marriage is to submit to God’s sovereignty and arrangements.

Looking back, I was influenced by the idea that “The parent is always right” over these years. I always thought that whatever my parents did was correct and for my own good, and I blindly obeyed them. Even if their ways of doing things went against my wishes, I would still go against my wishes to act in accordance with their requirements, and when I couldn’t meet their expectations, I would feel indebted to them. It was through God’s words that I gradually gained discernment of the fallacious idea that “The parent is always right,” found the right way to treat my parents, and felt released in my spirit. Now I can devote more time and energy to my duty and spend the best years of my life pursuing the truth. This is all thanks to God’s guidance. Thank God!