Do Money and Reputation Really Make You Happy?

Do Money and Reputation Really Make You Happy?

June 20, 2018

By Ma Hui, Germany

Once I heard a story, which went like this: Several social elites came to an old professor, complaining their jobs and life were very stressful. Then, the professor served them with a pot of coffee and a variety of cups. Each of them chose an expensive and beautiful cup, and none chose those ordinary and cheap ones. Based on this, the professor taught them a lesson: In fact, the cup cannot change the quality of coffee, yet everyone chooses a valuable cup; that is the source of stress. He also told them, “Life is like coffee. Work, money, fame and status is just like the cup. Those who live a happy life enjoy coffee, but not cup.”

Eastern Lightning | Throwing off Satan’s Yoke Is Liberating

Throwing off Satan’s Yoke Is Liberating

November 20, 20172

Momo Hefei City, Anhui Province

    Before I believed in God, no matter what I was doing, I never wanted to fall behind. I was willing to accept any hardship as long as it meant I could rise above everyone else. After I accepted God, my attitude remained the same, because I firmly believed in the saying, “No pain, no gain,” and saw my attitude as proof of my motivation. When God revealed the truth to me, I finally realized I had been living under Satan’s yoke, living under its domain.

"God Is Seeking Those Who Thirst for His Appearance" | Eastern Lightning

Christian Song | The Second Coming of Lord | "God Is Seeking Those Who Thirst for His Appearance"

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    God seeks those who long for Him, who long for Him to appear. God seeks those who don't resist, obedient as babies before Him. God seeks those who are able, able to hear His words, accept what He's entrusted and offer heart and body to Him. If nothing can shake, nothing can shake your devotion to God, He'll look down upon you, look down upon you with favor, oh … God will bestow His blessings upon you, upon you, oh … God will bestow His blessings upon you!

Heresy and Cults Cannot Be Determined by People | Eastern Lightning

Heresy and Cults Cannot Be Determined by People

Li Kun Anyang City, Henan Province

Picture of the Church of Almighty God

    God’s last days’ work has already conquered a group of people in Mainland China. Many believers in the religious community who long for God to appear have been conquered by God’s words because they have heard God’s voice and have returned before God’s throne. At the same time, many priests and elders in the religious community are desperate to resist and condemn God’s last days’ work. They always refer to it as heresy or a cult and wantonly condemn and blaspheme it. Their ignorance and arrogance drive them, like the Pharisees of those days, to take the road to perdition of resisting God and viewing God as an enemy, at the critical moment when new work replaces old.

The Practice of Seeking the Truth | Eastern Lightning

A Hymn of God's Words
The Practice of Seeking the Truth

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In all you encounter,

know which parts of the truth

relate to what's in front of you.

If you pursue God's will

without knowing the truth,

it's fruitless and blind,

will lead to nothing.

Does your state play a part

in how you understand truth?

Do you wonder in encounters

which truth rings true?

Discriminating Against Outsiders Is Too Malicious! | Eastern Lightning

42. Discriminating Against Outsiders Is Too Malicious!

Xiaojin    Pan’an County, Zhejiang Province

Picture of the Church of Almighty God

In February of 2007, the church received a work arrangement entitled “Water and Supply the New Believers to Help Them Take Root as Quickly as Possible.” It emphasized that “It is necessary to utilize all who are effective and experienced at watering the new believers in order to complete this work. People unsuitable for watering the new believers must not be used; they must be replaced to avoid delaying the work” (“The Issues the Church Is Currently Facing Must Be Resolved” in Annals of Fellowship and Work Arrangements (I)). After seeing this arrangement, instead of using the principles to measure whether the sister from our district who watered the new believers was suitable, I held preconceived ideas against her: This person perfunctorily performed her duty and did not focus on eating and drinking the words of God. Besides, she cared for the flesh, so she wasn’t suitable for watering the new believers. More importantly, she thought she had some caliber and so she became arrogant and looked down on others. Last time, she went to the person in charge of the region watering work and spoke ill of me. If it were not for the demands of my work, I wouldn’t have paid any more attention to her. In thinking about this, I made a plan: Why not take advantage of this opportunity and replace her so that I won’t have to see her anymore? Isn’t she arrogant? I’ll just replace her and then I’ll see how prideful she is!

Reflections on Being Replaced | Eastern Lightning

30. Reflections on Being Replaced

Yi Ran    Laiwu City, Shandong Province

Some time ago, owing to my not understanding the principle behind the church’s revision of personnel, when the church replaced a leader, a conception arose within me. From what I could see, the sister that was replaced was very good at both receiving and fellowshiping the truth, and could be open about her own expressions of corruption. So I could never get how someone who sought the truth so much could be replaced. Could it be that she talked about her own expressions of corruption too much, and so her leader mistakenly took her to be someone not in pursuit of the truth, and replaced her? If this is what really happened, then hasn’t a training opportunity for someone who was seeking the truth been ruined?