I

God saves those who pursue the truth. If you don't accept the truth, and if you're incapable of reflecting upon and knowing your own corrupt disposition, then you will not truly repent, and you will have no life entry. Accepting the truth and knowing yourself is the path to growth in life and to attaining salvation, it is the chance for you to come before God to accept His scrutiny, judgment, and chastisement, and to gain the truth and life. If you give up on pursuing the truth for the sake of pursuing fame and status and your own interests, this is tantamount to giving up on the opportunity to accept God's judgment and chastisement, and to attain salvation.

II

You are choosing fame, gain, and status and your own interests, but what you are giving up is the truth, and what you are losing is the life, and the chance to be saved. Is this not foolish? Fame, gain, status, money, and interests are all temporary, they are all ephemeral, whereas the truth and life are eternal and immutable. The truths that people gain are eternal; Satan cannot take these truths away from people, nor can anyone else. You relinquish your interests but what you gain are the truth and salvation; these results are yours, and you gain them for yourself.

III

If people choose to practice the truth, then even though they have lost their interests, they are gaining God's salvation and eternal life. Those people are the smartest ones. If people give up the truth for the sake of their interests, then they lose the life and God's salvation; those people are the most foolish ones. What a person chooses—their interests or the truth—is incredibly revealing. Those who love the truth will choose the truth; they will choose to submit to God and to follow Him. They would rather abandon their own interests to pursue the truth. No matter how much they have to suffer, they are determined to stand firm in their testimony to satisfy God. This is the fundamental path for practicing the truth and entering the truth reality.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Knowing One's Disposition Is the Foundation of Changing It