Ep 551 - Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute Part 1
Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute 186-31-14-40-551 + Chad Martin’s Testimony - April 29, 2022
I am so sorry I cannot show my face. I had some moles removed from my face. So please understand that I cannot fully show my face to you. It will take 4 or 5 more days.
Today I’d like to talk about the “Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Within the name Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation (Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute), won is the Chinese character for round and mo is the Chinese character for mother. Everyone should be well-rounded without any sharp angles. We should all be like a mother who embraces the different personalities in her family to create harmony. Wonmo means a mother of mothers. If there is something that gets in the way, one should be able to expand or contract accordingly, roll here and there to make a well-round circle, and finally return to one’s original position. Only by doing so can we resemble Heavenly Parent.
Pyeongae means a universe filled with true love by caring for people in need and for those in disadvantaged situations with true love, and achieving a horizontal equality that has on highs or lows. Seeds of true love must be sowed for the tree of true love and peace to sprout and grow. The Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation must diligently run forward under the vision of achieving a peaceful world centered on Heavenly Parent. It must take the lead in realizing a world based on the culture of heart by supporting talented young people, creating a culture of service and sharing, and running programs that contribute to society. (2014.02.10, Cheon Jeong Gung)
The Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation was launched with the vision of creating a world of peace centered on Heavenly Parent.
True Mother said, “It must take the lead in realizing a world based on the culture of heart by supporting talented young people, creating a culture of service and sharing, and running programs that contribute to society.”
After Father’s Seonghwa, you know what the first thing True Mother did, don’t you? She created the Wonmo scholarship system for the cultivation of our future generation. That was by selling True Father’s helicopter and using that as seed money. Each year True Mother has provided more than ten billion won for recipients in Korea, Japan and throughout the world.
True Mother is really an incredible lady. Why has she made such an incredible investment for the sake of future generations? She is really the mother of mothers. How much she has loved the world and our future generations. Let’s really appreciate her motherly, parental leadership from the bottom of our hearts.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 45 - Righteousness and Unrighteousness
First of all we need to see from the Divine Principle point of view.
Righteousness refers to the quality in a person which leads him to pursue goodness and further its purpose. Unrighteousness refers to that quality in a person which leads him to pursue evil and further its satanic purpose.
Let’s study Father’s word about … righteousness and unrighteousness.
The Ultimate Goal of Humanity is to be Good and Righteous Like God
<87-255> Because Heaven is a place of goodness and righteousness it is inevitable for human beings, the citizens of Heaven, to pursue the path of goodness and righteousness. Now, if we become people of righteousness, our family should be a family of righteousness, then our society should be righteous as well. After attaining a nation of righteousness, it should extend to Heaven which should be righteous as well. See, the conclusion here is that everything is connected to the whole.
The standard of righteousness must be passable for individuals, families, nations, the world, and God. For righteousness has a public, eternal, unchanging, and absolute standard.
In other words, the righteousness that I claim must be a righteousness that can be recognized and passable for the country and the world and furthermore by God and True Parents.
That is why there is a clear standard of righteousness. Our absolute standard of righteousness (is) what? It is God. He has absolute righteousness. Therefore, we need to inherit and resemble God. Then everyone without exception can be righteous people.
It is a place where you tend to be better for the greater cause, a place where as a good person you tend to be more pious, and it is a place where you tend to be a more righteous person. So in what kind of position should we be righteous, it should be on the highest position. Then what do you think is the highest position? If there is a highest position, we can conclude that the highest position is God’s position. So what is God's position of goodness? That position is a kind of position that exists for the sake of the whole universe. It should be this way in order to be the ultimate position of goodness, and the ultimate position of righteousness. This is an inevitable conclusion.
What is a righteous position? It is a position (in which) you can live for a greater cause. It is a position to live for the entire universe and for the whole. The highest position of goodness, the righteous position to live the most for others, is God’s position.
We really need to understand this. The highest position of goodness, the righteous position to live the most for others, is God’s position.
And because of that, we should be like God’s goodness and we should be like God’s righteousness. In the end, our ultimate goal is to be like God. It is to be like God. If we want to become a person of goodness and righteousness, then we should be able to stand beside God and know how to deal the universe. We should know how to take care of the universe. This is how we can be a pious and righteous person.
Therefore, the goal of righteousness is to become like God and someone who lives for everything.
So, in order to inherit righteousness, we have to inherit the heart of God so that we can treat all people and beings righteously.
If God is our Father, then we are His children. Our relationship with God is that of a parent and child. This means resembling God. And because of that we have to be one with each another. If God is looking upon us, He should be able to say “Pious children. Righteous Children.” And when we look back on God we should be able to say, “Pious Father. Righteous Father.” No one would be able to question and change this established foundation which will last forever.
The filial child, the patriot, and the saint are always righteous. This is because the filial child always respects and loves his parents without being fickle.
A patriot’s love for the country is not fickle under any circumstance. The saint has an unchanging heart to live for humanity.
Let’s be righteous people toward God and True Parents, no matter what. In any situation. In any circumstance, our filial heart and love (must) never change toward God and True Parents.
True Mother is very much alone right now. She is carrying on a really incredible and heavy mission. Let’s support and unite with True Mother. Then she can get more strength from her filial sons and daughters. I would like to ask our brothers and sisters -- True Mother is planning to come to America; I don’t know when -- I would like to request for each one of you for more prayer for her safe journey to America. Let’s really invest our heart and jeongseong for our beloved True Mother!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Meeting God in Suffering
These days I am continuously talking about suffering. This is very important content. I remind you again and again what suffering and pain means. We are dealing with fallen man. Everybody is going through all kinds of suffering and pain. How can I deal with such suffering?
1. True Father must have come to know God's circumstances through the hardships of life in prison. It may be that True Father discovered God’s sorrow through the trivial sufferings of fallen humans. This is the principle of the secret that True Father practiced and experienced while dedicating his life and shedding blood, sweat and tears. Therefore, we cannot encounter God's suffering only by reading books and knowing them rationally and externally. Therefore, we believe that we must revive our lives in the place where we hear the Word and experience suffering. We must meet God again in the midst of suffering. This means that we must meet God while carrying His cross.
As Jesus healed many sick and incurable patients, he treated their pain and sorrow as God's pain and sorrow. As a parent, he showed mercy to them.
True Father considered the suffering of the people around him as God's suffering while living in prison, and he protected and supported them from a parental position.
In this way, our beloved Jesus and True Father looked at the suffering of all people and thought of God's suffering in dealing with them. Jesus and True Father experienced how great the suffering of God, the parent, was for fallen human beings.
Therefore, we believe that we should hear the Word and seek out those who are suffering spiritually or physically, encounter God's suffering, and resurrect their lives.
Thinking that the cross of suffering of the secular world is the cross of God, we have to resurrect them into new life.
Look at the secular world. Many are suffering and going through all kinds of pain. How can we save them? Why do they have to go through that kind of suffering? Let them know the meaning of suffering? That is your job and mine to save such people first.
Jesus looked at all kinds of sick people, incurable patients. How did Jesus treat them? With his tears, sweat and blood he took care of them as God’s sons and daughters. Think of that kind of parental heart. “Your suffering is my suffering. Your suffering is God’s suffering.” Jesus healed them with that kind of parental heart.
Look at True Father and True Mother’s life. They treated all humankind as children of God and True Parents. We need to learn that. When True Parents saw the suffering of all humankind, that was the suffering of God.
2. Even though hardships are a place where you can meet God, if you don’t handle the hardship well, you will not be able to meet God. Therefore, in the most difficult and tough situation where we have no choice but to complain, how we give thanks determines whether we meet God or not. When Jesus died on the cross, the two men on either side of him were also crucified to death. The crosses on either side of Jesus has something to teach us. It shows us what kind of attitude we should take when we face hardships. While carrying the cross, are you going to blame and accuse others like the thief on the left, or will you trust and follow the Lord like the thief on the right? How and what kind of cross will you carry?
Then how are you going to deal with suffering? If you treat your suffering as your own, you will end up resenting, complaining, and regretting. However, when we think of suffering as given by God, we feel more grateful than discontent.
We should think that God must have a reason for giving me such pain and suffering, and rather, give thanks.
The two men on the cross on either side of Jesus both carried the cross in the same position, but one complained and accused Jesus, while the other believed and followed Jesus.
We are fallen men carrying three kinds of crosses all the time. Sometimes our mood is good. Then we believe in God and True Parents. We love True Parents, love God, love Jesus. But sometimes we cannot digest (our situation) and do not feel so well. We easily complain. We easily become like the left-hand thief and complain. “Things aren’t so good. What happened here? Why does this kind of suffering come to my family?”
(But) sometimes we repent and repent. “No matter what, I need to appreciate (my situation). I need to recognize who True Parents are. I need to recognize Jesus and God.” Then we become the right-hand thief.
That is why in our life we carry three kinds of cross.
The central cross was carried by Jesus. Under that kind of suffering and difficulty he forgave his enemy, consoled God and comforted him. In that kind of suffering and pain, he thanked God, comforted God and prayed for Israelis and all humankind.
What kind of cross are you carrying?
Fallen man is sometimes really changeable. Sometimes he becomes the left-hand thief, sometimes, the right-hand (thief). Sometimes we carry Jesus’ cross. We really need to choose not the left-side, not the right-side; we need to carry the central cross. Jesus is the one who carried that kind of cross.
Now is the era of cheon il guk. We are the owner of cheon il guk. We are the ones who fully take ownership as filial sons and daughters. Whenever we face difficulties and problems and suffering, it is the time to meet God’s suffering, to console him and comfort him and carry even God’s suffering and his cross.
3. Jacob didn't feel lonely at all when he was in a miserable condition, lying on a stone while running away from his house and fleeing to Haran. Just like that, when I carry the cross, I should not think that I am sad, but rather seek God in such a place. When I suffer, if I think that God is in the suffering, it is certainly true. Suffering is a blessing. I meet God through my pain and suffering. God is hidden within pain. Why? It is because God was buried in sorrow for 6,000 years due to the fall of man. Have humans ever returned anything glorious to God? The saddest in this universe is none other than God.
When I suffer, if I think that God is in the suffering, “Heavenly God suffers more than I do. Our beloved Jesus suffers more than I do. Our True Parents suffer more than I do. Then through this suffering and pain I can understand you, God, and you, True Parents, and I can understand our beloved Jesus.” When I suffer if I think that God is in the suffering, (then) it is certainly true. There is always a reason why suffering comes to me. There is no suffering and pain without a reason and cause.
So, if you try to understand the meaning of suffering and seek God in the midst of suffering, that suffering becomes a blessing.
I meet God through my pain and suffering. God is hidden within pain.
Just as we searched for treasure when we were young, treasure is hidden in the pain.
How do you deal with suffering? There is a clear reason suffering comes to me. In order to remove my fallen nature, because of my ancestors’ problems, because I am asked to experience God’s suffering, because of (a need to) overcome this course, because I need to grow up. There is a clear reason (for suffering). If we try to avoid suffering and pain and try to run away, then even greater suffering and pain (will) come to us. That is why we need to know that there is a reason, there is a cause why suffering comes to us.
We need to fundamentally settle down. Not just try to avoid suffering. That does not make any sense. We have lost God. We have lost our parents. That is why all kinds of suffering comes to us. God is trying to find his children. We are suffering because we are trying to find our eternal parent. “Where is God?”
We need to know (this). There is a clear reason (for suffering). (We should) not just avoid suffering and pain. We need to kneel down and pray: “What does this suffering mean? What are you asking me to know? What are you asking me to realize, my God?”
4. Who did the Bible call the saddest people on this earth? The Bible says orphans and widows are the saddest people. The reason is that the position of an orphan who has lost their parents and a wife who has lost her husband is the same as the sad position of being alone like God. But would a parent who has lost a child feel worse than an orphan does? Would they be less upset? They would be more upset. Therefore, God is buried in sorrow and pain. All those who have met God on this earth met Him in a field of thorns and on the cross of death.
Because of the fall of man, God suffers more than anyone else and lives in suffering.
For that reason, all the saints and sages who came to this earth met God in a place of suffering like a thorny field or the cross of death.
Today we continued to talk about suffering and pain. We need to know the meaning of suffering and pain. It is a great opportunity. Through my suffering and pain I can understand God’s situation and difficulties. When my suffering meets God’s suffering, I can build a relationship between parent and child.
When Abraham offered his only son Isaac, at the moment he really made the offering, God intervened, “Don’t do that.” Then God confessed, “From now on I am the God of Abraham.” (Abraham) built a parent-child relationship (with God). When we deal well with suffering, it is a time to (draw) closer to God. It is a time to have a heartistic relationship with God. That is why in the end suffering is a blessing. It is a great opportunity to meet our Heavenly Parent.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony that Anything is Possible
Today let's take the time to hear another living testimony of witnessing. Let’s welcome Chad Martin. Let’s hear his beautiful testimony. Thank you very much.
(Testimony of Chad Martin.)
A few days ago my daughter called me. “Hey Daddy, I want to talk with you.” I was busy, but finally I contacted my eldest daughter. She said, “Daddy, I am so inspired attending your morning devotion. (It is) not just your words.” “For what are you so inspired?” “You spoke about one-on-one witnessing. Then Takayo Hiraki gave a six(?)-day beautiful testimony. I was so moved. I would like to invite Takayo Kiraki to teach our small youth community in Australia more details (about witnessing.) I have a great motivation to move forward for witnessing. Daddy, it is not only because of your words; it is because of Takayo’s testimony!”
When I was in the Philippines and talked with young people, I had absolute confidence in the Divine Principle. I told them, “I am telling you guaranteed: if you study the Divine Principle thoroughly, you can heal your internal problems and solve the problems of your life. This book is that powerful. Why don’t you study this? After reading and studying this ten or twenty times, you can solve your internal problems, you get any kind of answer, and you can have a bright future.”
When you speak with your people, you need to have that kind of conviction, that kind of absolute confidence. “The Divine Principle is medicine. You can heal anybody’s problem. That is the power of the Divine Principle.”
If you do not believe in that and do not practice it, then it will not work. If you do not believe in miracles, they never happen. You need to believe in that. Divine Principle makes miracles! It really heals our situation!♦
(Response to sharing) Actually I think your motivation is very beautiful. You are trying to create joy and glory for God, more than suffering. But I think actually that is the same thing. When you know God’s reality, his real suffering and pain, and when you console and comfort him, that creates incredible joy for God. You need to know his reality.
If I am thirsty and looking for water, but you give (me) something else, that is not very interesting. When you see God’s reality -- that he looks at all of humankind, how much suffering (he experiences) and tears (he sheds) -- when you can feel the suffering of God and you console and comfort him, when you witness one by one -- “Heavenly Father, how much you are searching for your children!” -- and you bring them back to God, that creates incredible joy and happiness for God! So actually your motivation is correct, but we need to go through a certain process. First, we need to know God’s reality and (then) gradually we come to know his inner situation and accomplish his wish, God’s joy and happiness is there.♦
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