I

What is now of greatest concern is learning to seek the truth in everything, to reach an understanding of the truth, to practice the truth, and to be able to submit to God. That's what it is to believe in God. To believe in the practical God is to obtain the truth and the life. The truth is not used to enrich people's spiritual world, nor is it meant to give people a good education. The truth is there to resolve man's corrupt disposition, to resolve man's sinful nature, to make people live before God, and to have them live out a normal humanity. Some people always feel that the truth is profound and abstract, and that the truth is a mystery. They do not understand that the truth is something for people to practice, something for people to apply.

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Gaining the truth is not difficult, nor is entering into the truth reality, but if people are always averse to the truth, they cannot gain it. One must first have an attitude of accepting the truth when things happen to them. Not having this kind of attitude is like not having a vessel to receive a treasure, thus leaving you unable to obtain the truth. If a person can't obtain the truth, their belief in God is in vain! What is it to obtain the truth? It is when the truth becomes your reality, when it has become your life. That's what it is to obtain the truth—that's what it means to believe in God! What does God express those truths for? So that people may accept the truth, such that corruption is made pure; so that people may obtain the truth, such that the truth becomes their life. So, the most important thing in believing in God is entering into the truth reality.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Part Three