The more you satisfy God, the more God blesses you

and the greater the strength of your love for God;

so, too, will you have faith.

The more you satisfy God, the more God blesses you

and the greater the strength of your love for God;

so, too, will you have faith and resolve,

and will feel that

nothing is more worthy or significant than a life spent loving God.

It can be said that man has but to love God to be without sorrow.

Although there are times when your flesh is weak

and you are beset by many real troubles,

during these times you will truly rely on God,

and within your spirit you will be consoled,

and you will feel certainty, and that you have something to depend upon.

In this way, you will be able to overcome many environments,

and so you will not complain about God because of the anguish that you suffer.

Instead, you will want to sing, dance, and pray,

to assemble and commune, to give thought to God,

and you will feel that all the people, matters, and things around you

that are organized by God are fitting.

The more you satisfy God, the more God blesses you

and the greater the strength of your love for God;

so, too, will you have faith and resolve,

and will feel that

nothing is more worthy or significant than a life spent loving God.

If you do not love God,

all that you look upon will be irksome to you

and nothing will be pleasing to your eyes;

in your spirit you will not be free but downtrodden,

your heart will always complain about God,

and you will always feel that you suffer so much torment,

and that it is so unjust.

If you do not pursue for the sake of happiness,

but in order to satisfy God and to not be accused by Satan,

then such pursuit will give you great strength to love God,

then such pursuit will give you great strength to love God.

Man is able to carry out all that is spoken by God,

and all that he does is able to satisfy God—

this is what it means to be possessed of reality.

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs