Within God’s family, there are several different kinds of beliefs; these different beliefs must be identified to see which one you yourself hold.
With the first kind of belief, which is also the best kind, a person is able to believe in God’s word in all things, can accept all of God’s revelations, dealings, and pruning, and is attentive to God’s will; he or she loves, is loyal to, and worships God, and is willing to practice the truth. With such a belief one can obtain life, and it enables one to achieve a change in disposition and to be gained by God.
With the second kind of belief, people partially believe in God but are also partially suspicious. When God’s work is not agreeable to such people, they would make comparisons in their hearts, questioning whether God should be doing such things. They are often suspicious of God, and therefore only able to partially obey God and cannot obey Him in other things. They can obey that which they believe is right, but they have their own notions when faced with things that they feel are wrong, over which they feel conflicted deep down, and so they refuse to carry them out. This is also a type of belief. Most people nowadays have this sort of stature; they are only able to obey what they feel is right, and cannot obey what they feel is wrong. They will not carry out what they are unwilling to do. Likewise, sometimes, when the mood strikes, they become enthusiastic toward God, feeling that they should be attentive to God’s burden, and they therefore fulfill their duties; or sometimes they get excited about communicating, find God to be quite lovable, and only then do they feel a bit of faith in God. Most of the time, their belief in God merely stems from following the crowd; they do not actually have any love for God, nor are they attentive to God, much less truly obeying and worshiping God. People with this sort of belief in God only occasionally possess a small amount of love, attentiveness, and obedience for God—and it only happens when they are especially moved by the Holy Spirit, and while the Holy Spirit is doing His work. When they are in a bad state, when they are deceived by others, or when they are weak and negative, then these things all go away and vanish, while they themselves have no clue of how that has come to pass. They are no longer able to love God even if they want to and are not motivated to practice God’s word anymore, and then they see God’s work as very ordinary and very normal. Even if they are not suspicious anymore, they no longer have any initiative. Most people’s stature is at this stage, and this is the second kind of belief.