Are You Aware of Your Mission?

I
Are you able to communicate the disposition
expressed by God in each age
in a concrete way,
with language that is appropriate
and carries the significance of that age?
Having experienced God’s work
of the last days,
can you describe God’s
righteous disposition in detail?
Can you testify about God’s disposition
clearly and accurately?
How will you tell of what you’ve seen
and what you have experienced
to those pitiable, poor,
and devout religious believers
who hunger and thirst for righteousness
and are waiting for you to shepherd them?
What kind of people
are waiting for you to shepherd them?
Can you imagine?
II
Are you aware of the burden on your shoulders,
your commission, and your responsibility?
Where is your sense of historic mission?
How will you serve properly
as a master of the next age?
Do you have a strong sense of being a master?
How should the master
of all things be explained?
Is it really the master of all living creatures
and of all physical things in the world?
What plans do you have
for the progress of the next phase of the work?
How many people are
waiting for you to shepherd them?
Is your task a heavy one?
They are poor, pitiable, blind, and at a loss,
wailing in the darkness—
where is the way?
III
How they yearn for the light,
like a shooting star,
to suddenly descend and dispel
the forces of darkness that have
oppressed man for so many years.
They anxiously hope,
and pine, day and night, for it—
who can know this completely?
Even on a day when the light flashes past,
these deeply suffering people
remain imprisoned in a dark dungeon
without hope of release;
when will they weep no longer?
Terrible is the misfortune
of these fragile spirits who have
never been granted rest,
and long have they been kept bound in this state
by merciless bonds and frozen history.
And who has heard the sound of their wailing?
Who has seen their miserable state?
Has it ever occurred to you
how grieved and anxious God’s heart is?
How can He bear to see innocent mankind,
whom He created with His own hands,
suffering such torment?
IV
Human beings, after all, are the victims
who have been poisoned.
And although man has survived to this day,
who would have known that mankind
has long been poisoned by the evil one?
Have you forgotten
that you are one of the victims?
Are you not willing to strive
to save all these survivors
out of your love for God?
Are you not willing to devote
all of your energy to repaying God,
the One who loves mankind
like His own flesh and blood?
How exactly would you comprehend
being used by God
to live your extraordinary life?
Do you really have the resolve
and confidence to live the meaningful life
of a pious, God-serving person?

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. How Should You Attend to Your Future Mission?