In 2003, God’s family assigned two sisters to revise the articles at my home. One day, they showed me several pieces of living examples written down by brothers and sisters concerning signs and wonders as well as dreams and visions. Then and there, my heart almost skipped a beat: Isn’t it that God won’t perform signs and wonders when he comes this time? What is all this about? Doesn’t God say “Now what everyone can contact is God’s word. …you won’t see any signs and wonders”? I also recalled what was fellowshipped in the past: God no longer does the work of performing signs and wonders now; if anyone performs signs, he is a false god…. I did not dare to go on thinking. I had undesirable thoughts in my mind, but I did not dare to fellowship about my misgivings with the sisters. From then on, I had been living in a contradiction. Every time I picked up the book of God’s word, those undesirable thoughts welled up. Thus, I was always terribly upset and was at a loss as to what to do…. The notion inside me had not been resolved all along.

A period of time ago, I read from the materials given to the two sisters a communication article on the experience of life entitled “Notions Badly Entrap Man.” I was attracted to the content of the article because it precisely corresponded to my state. The brother in the article mentioned that he had a notion about God’s again doing the work of performing signs and wonders and at last, he resolved it through eating and drinking the word of God. Especially, these words of God that had resolved his notion impressed me most: “If you can drop your religious notions, you will not measure God’s present word and work with your mind but obey directly, and even though God’s present work is obviously different from his former work, you will be able to drop your former viewpoints and directly obey God’s work of today. If you can realize that you should regard God’s present work as most important no matter what God did before, then you are one who drops his notions.…” “…people always like to fix God onto one point. Although people all shout that God is almighty and God is all-inclusive, people’s innate nature is apt to confine God within a certain scope. Everyone is resisting and drawing conclusions about God while knowing God.” God’s words resolved the misgivings clouding my mind. My heart which had been oppressed for a very long time was finally freed in the words of God. I felt released all at once as if a heavy load had been taken off my mind. Actually, it was because I had no knowledge of God and had limited God within his former words that I formed the notion about God. When encountering problems, the brothers and sisters knew to seek God and look for the answers in the word of God. But how about me? I neither sought God nor opened my heart to fellowship with the sisters. At ordinary times, I paid no attention to the word of God or to resolving my problems with the word of God, so when I had the notion in my heart, the idea never occurred to me that the word of God can resolve all of man’s difficulties. As a result, my spirit became darkened and I fell far behind in life. I am grateful to God that he has practically helped me through this brother’s communication article on the experience of life. Now, I not only have no notion about God’s doing the work of performing signs and wonders, but I have also understood a truth: No matter what God does in the future, I should drop my notions and completely submit to the latest work of God, for God says “The only characteristic of God’s work can be summarized in one word—new.”

Bai Yue

Tengzhou City, Shandong Province