I

Many are the sleepless nights that God has endured for the sake of the work for mankind. From up high to the lowest depths, He has descended to the living hell where man resides to live with man between the ends of the earth, He has never complained of the shabbiness among man, and He has never reproached man for his rebelliousness, but endures the greatest humiliation as He personally carries out His work. How could God belong to hell? How could He spend His life in hell? But for the sake of all mankind, so that the whole of mankind can find rest sooner, He has endured humiliation and suffered injustice in coming to earth, and personally entered into "hell" and "Hades," into the tiger's den, to save man. How is man qualified to oppose God? What reason does he have to complain about God? How can he have the gall to face God?

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God of heaven has come to this most filthy land of licentiousness, and has never vented His grievances, or complained about man, but instead quietly accepts the ravages and oppression of man. Never has He hit back at the unreasonable demands of man, never has He made excessive demands of man, and never has He made unreasonable demands of man; He just does all the work needed by man, bearing all hardship and not complaining: teaching, enlightening, reproaching, the refinement of words, reminding, exhorting, consoling, judging, and exposing. Which of His steps has not been for the life of man? Though He has removed the prospects and fate of man, which of the steps carried out by God has not been for the fate of man? Which of them has not been for the sake of man's survival? Which of them has not been to free man from this suffering and from the oppression of dark forces that are as black as night? Which of them is not for the sake of man? Who can understand God's heart, which is as the heart of a loving mother? Who can comprehend God's eager heart?

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Work and Entry (9)