From the time you came crying into this human world, you began to fulfill your responsibilities, acting your part for the sake of God’s plan and God’s ordination and beginning your life journey. No matter what your background is and what your journey ahead is going to be, no one can escape from Heaven’s governance and arrangement, and no one can control his own destiny, because only the One, the ruler of all things, can do such a work. Since mankind was created in the beginning, God has been doing his work in this way, managing this universe, and directing the changing patterns and the running courses of everything. Like all other things, man is silently and unconsciously receiving the nourishment of the sweetness and rain and dew from God. And like all other things, every man is living under the governance of God’s hand without their knowing it. Man’s heart and spirit are under the control of God, and man’s entire living is in the sight of God. No matter whether you believe all this or not, everything, living or dead, has to follow God’s thoughts as it moves, changes, renews, or even disappears. This is the way God rules all things.

When night comes quietly, no one is aware of it because their heart cannot feel how the night comes and where it comes from. When the night slips away quietly, men see the day in. As to where the day comes from and how it drives away the night, men’s heart is even more ignorant and unaware of it. Such repeated changes and alternations of night and day have brought mankind into different periods and different backgrounds of the ages, while at the same time making fulfilled God’s work in every period and God’s plan in every age. Although men have followed God through these different periods, they do not know that God controls the destiny of all things and all living beings and do not know that how God governs and directs all things. These are things men of today and men of the past have not been able to know. The reason for that is not because God’s deeds are too hidden or God’s plan has not been realized, but because men’s heart and spirit are so far from God that they are unaware that they are still serving satan while “following God.” No one has taken the initiative to seek God’s footsteps and God’s appearing. No one likes to live under God’s care and keeping. On the contrary, they like to rely on the corroding by satan and the devil to adapt to this world and to the rules this evil mankind live by. Thus, men’s heart and spirit become the tribute they offer to satan, become food for satan, and even more become an abiding place for satan and a natural place of amusement for satan. So, unconsciously men no longer understand the truth for being a human and no longer understand the value and meaning of human existence. God’s laws and God’s covenant with man have gradually become vague in their heart, and they no longer think to seek God and no longer pay attention to God. In the course of time, no one understands the meaning of God’s creating man anymore or understands the words from God’s mouth or anything from God. Then they begin to resist the laws and decrees from God, and their heart and spirit become numb…. God has lost the man created in the beginning, and man has lost his original root. This is the sorrow of this mankind. Actually, from the beginning until now, God has been directing a tragedy for mankind in which man plays a leading role as well as a victim. No one has been able to answer who the director of this tragedy is.

In this boundless world, seas have changed into mulberry fields and mulberry fields have changed into seas for countless times. Except for the One who rules everything in the midst of all things, no one has been able to guide and lead this mankind, no “able one” has been working hard and preparing anything for this mankind, much less has anyone been able to lead this mankind toward a bright destination and lead them to be free from the injustices of this human world. God has been sighing over the future of mankind, grieving over mankind’s fall, and sorrowing over mankind’s heading for a decline and toward a path of no return step by step. No one has ever thought about this: Where will such a mankind who has broken God’s heart and who has abandoned God and turned to the evil one head for? For this reason, no one has thought to sense God’s anger, no one has thought to seek the way to please God, no one has thought to come close to God, much less has anyone thought to feel God’s grief and sorrow. Having heard God’s voice, all people still go their own way, still stay away from God, shun God’s grace and care, avoid God’s truth, and would rather sell themselves to satan which is hostile to God. Who has ever thought that if people persist in their mistaken ways like this, how God will treat them who totally disregard him? No one knows that God warns and exhorts mankind time after time because his hand has prepared an unprecedented disaster. This disaster is unbearable to man’s flesh and man’s soul. It is not only to punish man’s flesh but man’s soul. You should know what wrath God will unleash when his plan falls through and his warnings and exhortations are not responded. It is that which no created being has ever experienced or heard of. Therefore, I say that this disaster is unprecedented and will never occur again. For God has only planned to create mankind once and save mankind once. This is the first time and the last time. So, no one can comprehend God’s kind intention and eager expectation in saving mankind this time.

God created this human world and brings man, this living being who has the life bestowed by God, into this world. Then man has a father and mother and relatives and is no longer lonely. From the moment man sees this physical world, he is destined to live according to God’s ordination. It is God’s breath of life that supports every living being so that they can “grow up.” In this process, no one feels that they are living and “growing up” under God’s care. On the contrary, they think that they “grow up” under their parents’ loving care and by life instinct. This is because no one knows who gives man “life” and where it comes from, much less knows how life instinct works a miracle. They only know that food is the fundamental thing to sustain man’s life, willpower is the source of human existence, and man’s mental belief is the capital for man’s life, but they cannot feel God’s grace and supply at all. And in this way, they waste the life God bestows to them…. No one whom God cares for day and night has taken the initiative to worship God. God has been doing his planned work on the utterly hopeless people. And he hopes that one day they will wake up from their dream and suddenly understand the value and the meaning of life, understand the price God has paid for everything he has bestowed to man, and understand God’s eagerness of earnestly expecting that man will turn back. All these secrets concerning the origin and continuation of man’s life are that which no one has ever studied. And only God who understands all these is silently enduring the hurt and disappointment brought by man who receives everything from God and yet is ungrateful. Man is naturally enjoying everything that life brings, and God is “naturally” being rebelled against, forgotten, and extorted by man. Is God’s plan really so important? Is man, this living being from God’s hand, really so important? God’s plan is absolutely important, yet the living beings created by God’s hand are created for God’s plan. So God will not wreck his plan because of hating this mankind. He is enduring all kinds of sufferings for his plan and for the breath from his mouth, not for man’s flesh but for man’s life, for taking back the life he breathed out but not for taking back man’s flesh. This is his plan.

Everyone who comes into this world has to go through the process of life and death. And many people have gone through the transmigration of life and death. The living ones will soon “die,” and the “dead” ones will soon come back to life. All these are the course of life, which God has set for every living being. However, these courses and transmigrations are the very fact that God wants man to see: The life God bestowed to man is continuous and is not limited by flesh, time, or space. This is the mystery of the life that God bestowed to man and a proof that life comes from God. Although many people do not believe that man’s life comes from God, everyone is inevitably enjoying everything from God, whether they are those who believe in God’s existence or those who deny God’s existence. If one day, God suddenly changes his mind and will take back everything from earth and take back his life, then all this will cease to exist. By his life, God supplies all living and non-living things. By his mighty power and his authority, he does all this in an orderly way. This fact is unimaginable and incomprehensible to anyone. Yet this incomprehensible fact is the very expression and proof of God’s life power. At this point, I will tell you a secret: The greatness of God’s life and the energy of God’s life are unfathomable to any created being. It is so in the present, it was so in the past, and it will be so in the future. The second secret I will tell you is: The life of every created being comes from God. No matter what form and structure one’s life takes and what kind of living being you are, no one can deviate from the course of life that God has set for him. No matter what, I only hope that people will understand this: Without God’s care, keeping, and supply, man will never gain what he should gain, no matter how hard he tries and struggles. And without God’s supply for man’s life, man’s living will have no value and his life will have no meaning. As for such a person who wastes the value of God’s life, how could God let him off? I still want to say this: Don’t forget that God is the source of your life. If man does not treasure what God bestows upon him, God will not only take back the things he has given to man from the beginning, but he will make man pay double the price for what he has paid for man.

26 May 2003