After Liang Zhi believed in God, he consistently sought with enthusiasm,
and threw himself into fulfilling his duties. After a number of years,
he was elected as a church leader. During the time that he performed his
duties as a church leader, he realized that some of the brothers and
sisters were more competent than he, which made him unhappy to the
extent that he was jealous of them. In order to save face and protect
his status, he secretly competed with them to see who was better, and he
scrambled for fame and status. Fame and status seemed like invisible
shackles binding him tightly, tying him down, leading him to do things
in violation of the truth and rebelling against God. Because the
carrying out of his duties was only for the sake of fame and status, and
not in pursuit of the truth, the result was that he lost the work of
the Holy Spirit. He could not do practical work, and was removed from
his leadership duties and replaced. He suffered acutely as a result, and
came before God to reflect on himself. After undergoing the judgment
and chastisement of God's words, he came to realize that pursuit of fame
and status was entirely brought about by his satanic disposition of
arrogance and conceit, and worshiping power and influence and status. He
grasped that the essence of seeking fame and status was following the
path of the antichrist. If he did not repent and mend his ways
throughout, the final outcome was that he was destined to sink into
oblivion. At the same time he saw clearly that faith in God required
walking on the road of pursuit of the truth and carrying out his duties
with devotion. After that, in fulfilling his duties he attached
importance to pursuit of the truth and practicing the truth. Whenever
the corrupt disposition of scrambling for fame and status slipped out,
he then prayed to God seeking the truth and, accepting the judgment and
chastisement of God's words, according to the word of God he practiced
forsaking the flesh, and set in order his intention to fulfill his own
duty. Regardless of whether or not he had status, he was able most
steadfastly to carry out his duties. Gradually he threw off the shackles
of status that bound him and he no longer pursued fame and status,
having walked on to the correct path of human life of seeking the truth
and receiving salvation.
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