I

People don't know how to show consideration for My intentions, they cannot see My actions, and they cannot move within the light and be shone on by the light. Although man once treasured My words, he's incapable of seeing through the deceitful schemes of Satan; because man's stature is too small, he's unable to do as his heart wishes. Man has never loved Me sincerely. When I exalt him, he feels himself unworthy, but this does not make him try to satisfy Me. Man merely holds the "status" I have given him in his hands and scrutinizes it; insensible to My loveliness, he instead keeps indulging in the benefits of his status. Isn't this man's deficiency?

II

When the mountains move, could they make a detour for the sake of your status? When the waters flow, could they cease before man's status? Could the heavens and the earth be reversed by man's status? I once showed man mercy over and over again—yet no one cherished or treasured this. They merely listened to it as a story, or read it as a novel. Do My words really not touch man's heart? Do My utterances really have no effect? Could it be that no one believes in My existence? Man doesn't love himself; instead, he unites with Satan to attack Me, and uses Satan as an "asset" with which to serve Me. I will penetrate all the deceitful schemes of Satan, so that from now on the people of earth are no longer misled by it, and so that they do not oppose Me because of its existence.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God's Words to the Entire Universe, Chapter 22