I

God doesn't permit people to be impetuous in dealing with the matters that befall them, let alone to use human moral codes to deal with any matter. The principle that God tells people about is to view people and things and to comport oneself and act according to God's words and the truth. Whatever happens, it must be dealt with according to God's words, because in all matters and all things there is a root cause behind everything that happens and any person, event, or thing that emerges, all of which God arranges and has sovereignty over. Everything that happens may have a positive or a negative final outcome, and the difference between them depends on people's pursuits and the path they walk.

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If you choose to treat matters according to God's words, then the final outcome will be positive; if you choose to treat them by the ways of the flesh and impetuousness, and all the various sayings, ideas and views that come from people, then the final result will definitely be one of impetuousness and negativity. Those things of impetuousness and negativity, if they involve harming people's dignity, body, soul, interests, and so on, will ultimately leave only hatred and a shadow on people that they can never get rid of.

III

Only by following God's words is it possible to find the causes of the various people, events, and things that one encounters, and only by following God's words is it possible to see clearly the essence of such people, events, and things. Of course, only by following God's words can people correctly handle and resolve problems to do with all the various people, events, and things that they encounter in reality. In the end, this will enable people to benefit from all the environments that God creates, their lives will gradually grow, their corrupt dispositions will be changed, and at the same time, they will find therein the correct direction in life, the correct outlook on life, the correct mode of existence, and the correct goal and path to pursue.

from The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. What It Means to Pursue the Truth (9)