How should one experience the suffering of illness? They should come before God to pray and try to feel God’s intentions, while also inspect what transgressions they have committed and which corruptions they have not yet resolved. It is unacceptable for the flesh to not endure suffering, and one must be tempered through suffering in order to not be dissolute and to be able to always live before God. If one’s heart is in pain, then they will always pray and inspect themselves to see if they have done anything wrong or offended God in any way. This is beneficial to them. It is certainly not a coincidence that the trial of great suffering can befall people.

God’s intentions are contained therein whether one is ill or not. If one does not understand God’s intentions when they fall ill, they will not know how to practice, thinking that it was caused by their own foolishness. Do they not know that God’s good intentions lie therein? It is never a coincidence when a major illness befalls you and makes you feel like you would rather be dead. During the period of God’s salvation, does the Holy Spirit accompany people’s lives to merely enlighten and illuminate them? God also has to try and refine people, and they must endure a lot of suffering in order to be cleansed and for their life disposition to change.

How does God try people? By refining them through making them endure suffering. To be tried is to suffer. When one is tried, suffering shall follow. How could there be suffering without trials? How can people change if they don’t suffer? If one is tried then they should suffer, and they will gain the work of the Holy Spirit. Mankind’s corruption is too deep. If they don’t suffer, they won’t know the immensity of heaven and earth. If they don’t suffer, their hearts will be without God. Resolving mankind’s corrupt disposition cannot only be done through communicating the truth—it must also rely on refining them through trials, and it must rely on refining them through suffering.