I

No matter what God does, what manner of heart's blood He expends upon people, or what kind of thoughts He has, He only has one ultimate purpose. That is, He hopes people will walk the right path and return before Him. The right path is to return before the Creator to accept all the truths God expresses, to eat and drink God's words and experience God's work to achieve salvation, and to be able to submit to and worship God. If the path people walk is based on God's words, with the truth as its criterion, then the price God invests in people and all the expectations He has for them will have been reciprocated. God does not have high requirements for people, and He has enough patience and love to wait for people to turn back.

II

When you turn back to God, what He will do is not as simple as merely bestowing some grace and blessings on you. Rather, He will provide for you, support and guide you in terms of the truth and your life, and on the path you are walking—He will do even greater work in you. That is what He is looking forward to. Before doing this work, God tirelessly guides people, supports them, and bestows grace and blessings upon them. What God ultimately wants to see in people after He does all this work is that they can turn back. If people understand His intentions and thoughts, and why He actually acts in this way, then people will recognize His loveliness, have some stature, and have grown up.

III

When people begin to be meticulous toward and to work hard at each truth that God has provided for them, and begin to enter into the reality of each truth, God will be pleased, and He will no longer have to do the simple work of being with people, and comforting, prompting, and exhorting them. Instead, He will provide more for them in terms of the truth and their life, and on the path that they are walking—He will do greater and more concrete work on people. Through this manner of working, He can purify and save people, He can get people to submit to and worship Him, and enable people to become of one heart and mind with Him. This is what God most hopes to see, this is a monumentally great thing for both people and God, and something that He has been looking forward to for a long time.

IV

When a person embarks on the path of pursuing the truth, their stature gradually grows, they have the strength to fight against Satan and stand firm in their witness to God, and there is greater hope of God seeing one more created human being stand up and fight against Satan, which is the glory of God. As a person's stature progressively grows, they become stronger and stronger, more and more capable of bearing witness, and increasingly fearful of, and submissive to, God. This means that there is greater hope of God gaining a group of overcomers among people, and of Him being glorified among and in people. This is what God is looking forward to and expecting from you, this group of people, and He has been looking forward to it for a long time.

from The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. What It Means to Pursue the Truth (15)