God’s Only Wish on Earth

English


I
God comes in the flesh this time
in answer to an invitation,
and in pointed response
to the state of man.
That is, He comes to supply man
with what man needs.
No matter what man’s caliber or breeding,
He will, in summary,
enable everyone to see the word of God;
He will enable everyone, from His word,
to see the existence and the appearance of God
and accept God’s perfection of them,
changing the thoughts and notions of man
so that the original countenance of God
is firmly rooted in the depths of man’s heart.
This is God’s only wish on earth.
II
No matter how strong
the inborn nature of man,
or how poor man’s substance,
or what man’s behavior in the past
was really like,
God pays no regard to these.
He only hopes for man
to make completely new
the image of God he has in his inner heart
and to come to know the substance of mankind,
thereby arriving at the transformation
of the ideological outlook of man,
and making it so man is able
to long for God deep inside
and awaken an eternal attachment to Him:
This is the one requirement
that God has of man.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Work and Entry (7)