Ep 553 - Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute Part 3
Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute 188-33-14-40-553 - May 1, 2022
I am showing you a big smile! Are you happy?
I cannot tell you many good things here, but later on I will share more details.
Today I’d like to talk about the “Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
The Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation is investing more than ten billion won in scholarships to cultivate many talented young people. They must be raised around the clock so that they can grow beautifully and upright within our protection. A period of ten months in a mother's womb is needed for a life to be born. Can a baby, born after those ten months, walk in a day? The baby needs time. Therefore, the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation must actively, scientifically, and psychologically, and in all aspects, perfectly equip itself with a system and diligently raise the students to whom it has given opportunities. We cannot be satisfied with only a few events a year. Furthermore, the central nations of the providence—Korea, Japan and the United States—must participate in this initiative.
We are not doing this because we have a lot of money. These funds are really True Parents' blood, sweat and tears. There are many tearful stories in raising this amount. Even outside, major companies support students with scholarships. In the end, it is to make them into their people. The students must work for the company or serve the company for a period of time after graduation as part of the company's conditions. This is how they bring people into their organization. (2015.08.09, Cheon Jeong Gung)
I would like to add more about the Pyeongae Institute.
Ceremony to Launch the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation 2/20/2013
I congratulate the seven hundred students who will be the first to receive a scholarship and those who will receive an award for their volunteer services from this Foundation that is being launched today. Please remember, however, that you have a responsibility.
We can create a world of peace and happiness desired by heaven and humankind. True Parents took the lead and showed you how to do this through their example. That is why I will continue to develop this project and the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation. I invested all of True Father's seongha funds as seed money.
As I said before, once the helicopter is sold, I will also contribute the funds from its sales. I will evenly distribute the benefits to all humankind and let them know what is the intent of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. Didn't I say there is no perfection in ignorance? First, we must educate people. We must make them know. We must show them through our actions.
Twenty years ago, we set up the Aewon Bank and have been giving assistance to neglected children and the needy by practicing the spirit of love, sharing and service. However, I will not be satisfied with this alone. Wherever the Family Federation goes, there is hope.
The Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation is investing more than ten billion won in scholarships to cultivate many talented young people.
Just as True Mother invests a tremendous amount of effort to nurture future leaders like this, all of our blessed families should raise our 2nd and 3rd generations more proudly from now on. In order to train leaders for the United States and the world in the future, we must first witness to many young people from Cain's world.
That is the reason I am really focused on youth group activities: CARP, YCLC, GPA and all the youth groups. Our future really depends on raising our young leaders. You and I, let’s focus on raising young leaders. That is our Heavenly Father’s wish, True Parents’ wish, especially our True Mother’s (wish). How much True Mother pays attention to raising the young generation!
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 45 - Righteousness and Unrighteousness
Let’s read the EDP content first.
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.
Based on this EDP content let’s study Father’s word.
The Difference Between a Patriot and a Saint
<87-260> Brothers and Sisters, Do you want to be a great man or do you want to be a Saint? [A saint]. You know, there are also patriots among great people who don’t have faith or who don’t believe in God. However, we should know what a Saint doesn’t have. Why? It is because of this: The primary element of goodness and righteousness is God. If you don’t know this principle, then you are not qualified to be a saint. Why? Because fallen human beings are not eternal beings but God is eternal. If there would be a good foundation on something, then it should be eternal and unchanging.
Because the subject of eternal righteousness is God, perfect righteousness cannot be achieved without God because God alone is eternal, absolute, and unchanging.
Therefore, the model and standard of eternal righteousness is God alone. For that reason, in order to practice eternal righteousness, one must believe in God and resemble God.
There are righteous people in the world who do not believe in God. However, the standard of the limit of righteousness is not clear. Human-centered righteousness is always capricious and changes its standards according to the environment.
Perceiving Goodness and Righteousness
<87-261> How can we perceive goodness and righteousness? It is being more than just living for the greater good. Does the Unification Church exists for the Unification Church only? Or does it exists for the world? If Unification Church only exists for itself, then it is a bad church and will fall apart immediately; But if it doesn’t change its purpose to exist for the whole humanity and the whole world, then it will last throughout human existence, and if it keeps God’s purpose, then it can only develop and be better.
How can we perceive goodness and righteousness? Any individual or group that seeks to do something greater is good and righteous.
True Father said: Does the Unification Church exist for the Unification Church only? Or does it exist for the world? If the Unification Church only exists for itself, then it is a bad church and will fall apart immediately.
If we apply True Father's formula to the North American Unification Church, if the North American Unification church only exists for itself, then it will become an evil church and will fall apart immediately.
However, True Father said that if we work for the greater purpose of the whole of humanity and the whole world and our purpose and vision do not change, we can develop forever.
Based on these standards in True Father's words, the American church must do whatever it takes to serve the world and mankind. We need to send missionaries to 200 countries around the world and continue to help financially. Then the American church can develop eternally and receive greater blessings.
That is why I really want to raise our young generation, second generation, third generation, any youth generation. We need to really nurture them and raise them, send them to the world and ask them to love the world and save all humankind. If we focus on serving the world, I think God will definitely bless the nation of the United States.
For me, to realize this content took a long time. In order to survive as an individual, you need to completely serve your family. Then you as an individual can survive. In order to have your family survive, you need to completely invest for the sake of your tribe. Then it can protect your family. How can we protect our tribe and family? You need to live for the sake of the nation. If you live for the sake of the nation, it can protect and support your family. In order to survive, maintain, protect and develop our nation, the United States, we need to serve all of humankind and the world.
God’s final state(?) is for the sake of all humankind and the world. This vision and content is very important. We need to live for and serve the greater purpose. Then we can get incredible heavenly strength and power. We can find inner joy and happiness.
I realize this is not simple, but once you realize this, Wow! You have no choice but to invest for the sake of the world. You need to invest for the sake of the greater purpose. Then you can feel incredible joy!
When I discovered this and practiced it, Wow! I don’t know how to explain this incredible joy to you! When I focus on the greater purpose, wow! That is why our regional and state leaders need to think about the entire nation, about the whole world and all humankind. That is one of the most important things I learned from True Parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Suffering and Human Beings’ Responsibility
This is very important content. Recently I have continuously spoken about suffering and pain because everyone as fallen people need to go through suffering and pain, right? If you don’t have pain and suffering, you are a different guy! You are living in a different world! Let’s say you are very rich, a billionaire or (even a) millionaire, you (still) have certain difficulties internally as well. What is the purpose for God giving us this suffering and pain? We need to understand very clearly that there is a human portion of responsibility when we deal with suffering and pain. Let’s study in more detail.
1. Now is the time to realize Cheon Il Guk, but what about our feelings toward God? As we live our life of faith, our life emotions (hearts) are important. When we face difficulties or hardships, we need to check whether our feelings of life are concerned about Heavenly Father or whether we are concerned about ourselves. You have to check whether you are trying to take on God's suffering as your own. Even if I go to a place of disappointment, if I worry about Heavenly Father, I will be saved. This is really strange. When I go to a place of disappointment and worry about Heavenly Father, heaven comforts me and gives me strength. So, when my pain and God's pain meet each other, they become love, life, and strength.
What are our life emotions about living in the era of Cheon Il Guk?
Do (I) often worry more about the will of Heavenly Parents? Or do I still have more worries about myself than the Will? I can grow only when I take God’s suffering as my own and make an effort. Even if I go to a place of disappointment, if I worry about God's heart and will, I will surely be saved, according to Father. This is so mysteriously strange.
When you feel disappointment, suffering and pain, at that time when you worry about God’s sorrowful heart -- God is really real -- and comfort him, I am telling you, you will surely be saved. You can gain incredible strength and power. This is really mysteriously strange.
In any situation, if you comfort God's heart and take on God's worries, unimaginable spiritual power will come to you. Anyone who has practiced this will surely know.
When I go to a place of disappointment and worry about God, miraculously heaven comforts me and gives me strength. When I find God's pain in my own pain, it becomes love, life and strength for me.
2. It means that if you know the difficulties and sufferings you are experiencing as the pain of the Lord and the pain of heaven, power will come and you will receive strength. We must have such experiences. Today is the time for us to be resurrected as children. In order to be resurrected as a child of heaven, how we can take on God's pain and bear it is important. Just as a person who has experienced a lot of sorrow and injustice cannot express his sorrow and injustice recklessly, it can be seen that God has the same heart. God's sorrow and injustice are so great that He hides them. God is so sad, painful, and bitter, so He cannot appear easily. God, who should appear holy, does not appear that way.
Those who have experienced living for the sake of others know how great the joy is. If I comfort the Lord through my difficulties and sufferings, unimaginable power and strength come from heaven. We do not know this unless we experience it in our life of faith.
When I was young, as you know, my family was very poor. If we had two meals a day, we were already very rich. One day I received a small piece of bread at school. Sometimes the school gave bread to students, those who were really poor. One day I received (a piece of bread). I wanted to eat it, but I did not eat it. From my school to home took more than one and a half hours. I brought (the bread) home because I was thinking of my older brother. I gave it to him. He was so happy. Then I completely forgot about it. When I was an adult, my older brother told me that in his life he cannot forget that moment.
You know, even though you are hungry, if you give (your food) to others, you can feel that you are already full and are not hungry. This is incredible, right? When we suffer and have difficulties and worry about God’s difficulties and suffering, unimaginable strength and power come to us.
In order for us to be resurrected as God's children today, we must become capable of taking on God's pain and sorrow.
God's sorrow and resentment are so great that he still cannot show his suffering to his immature children. It is like not being able to tell the difficulties parents face to their young children. Parents can’t tell their 5 or 10 year old child about their financial difficulties and problems. Their children are too young.
It is the same (with God). Our spiritual standard is very low (and immature), so God cannot share his suffering. He cannot tell us about his pain, his han.
However, when you grow up and reach a more mature age, then parents can share their pain and sorrowful things.
Parents try to hide their pain from their children. When True Father met miserable God, he really cried and cried and comforted God. Then God said, “Hey, Sun Myung Moon, my son, I am alright. I’m fine. Don’t worry.” Heavenly Father tried to hide his pain. When I hear that kind of heart(?)..., God is really the parent of parents! He did not want to express his pain to his son. He tried to hide his pain. He is an amazing God.
God's sorrow and (experience of) injustice are so great that God hides them. God is so sad, in pain, and bitter, so He cannot appear easily in the human world. Looking at God's appearance to man throughout history, God failed to appear as a holy and authoritative God, the original form of God.
How (can?) he freely express his sorrow? God wants to see that kind of filial sons and daughters. Heavenly Father tried to hide his sorrow in front of the 16-year-old boy.
We have to be mature. We need to understand God’s pain and sorrow.
3. It is not easy for us to get to the level of comforting God's suffering. Then, even the martyrs who came first must return to this earth. The martyrs came to this land and died unjustly. Their resentment is deep-rooted. Then, when hardship and suffering come, if we live with the heart of martyrdom like them, they will come and testify about us. We must first become such children who can mobilize martyrs. Next, we must enter the stage where we can relieve God's resentment. Before we knew God's circumstances and heart, we want to become people who can relieve the Han of the martyrs who came and went. Therefore, if we connect all our sufferings with the sufferings of heaven, we will never stumble in the path of our faith.
Before we know God's circumstances and heart, we want to become people who can relieve the Han of the martyrs who came and went. You must go through the stage of such training to the stage of comforting God's heart.
If we connect all our sufferings with the sufferings of heaven, we will never stumble in the path of our faith.
4. When we suffer, if we do not meet God's suffering, we make many mistakes. You should know this well. Therefore, when we experience the pain that comes upon us, please think that all suffering has brought blessings to us. Think of it as a gift from God to me. Therefore, even if I suffer the same, it is my responsibility to make a gain or a loss to my spirit. Keep in mind that you are responsible for how you handle pain, and you must live without forgetting the sorrows of heaven for a moment in the future. We must not forget that the God who looks at today's reality is not just a God of peace, happiness and freedom, but a Creator who bears the cross of suffering.
When we experience the pain that comes upon us, we must think that all suffering has brought blessings to us. Believe that there is a gift God has prepared for you in your pain. Believe that there are gold and silver treasures hidden by God in suffering just as there is blessing in persecution.
That’s why where there is suffering, there is hidden treasure (like) gold and silver. When you deal well with your suffering and pain centering on God’s suffering, I can tell you, your spiritual life can really grow, and (you) can resemble God and become a mature guy who truly understands God’s heart, his situation and his circumstances.
Even if I suffer the same, it is my responsibility to make a gain or a loss to my spirit. It depends on how I deal with the pain. Will you be grateful? Are you going to complain? Or will you know the pain of God?
Do not avoid suffering and pain. Let’s really learn what it means. Why does this suffering and pain come to me? We need to know the meaning and discover God’s pain and sorrow and suffering. This is the moment to build a parent-child relationship between God and ourself.♦
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