Ep 802 - True Mother's Words. 2023 Cheon Il Guk Leader's New Year Celebration, January 3, 2023
True Mother’s Words, January 3, 2023 to Cheon Il Guk Leaders - January 5, 2023
Key Points
In her January 3 message True Mother said that this year True Parents’ and God’s most earnest wish is the dedication ceremony of the Cheon Won Gung to be held on May 5.
True Parents’ remaining final wish is to dedicate a united North and South Korea as Cheon Il Guk.
The past ten years of Cheon Il Guk were the formation stage from 2013 to 2022. The next ten years till 2033, when True Mother turns 90, correspond to the growth stage. And the following ten years till 2043 are the completion stage when True Mother becomes 100.
In Korea, when a child goes to the spirit world before his parents, it is considered unfilial. So we should take care of our health.
God’s amazing providence will unfold internally and externally, and Heaven’s tremendous blessings will come.
We should be like prolific rabbits and bring about the multiplication of love through the blessing and witnessing.
All difficulties from last year will turn into blessings.
We should embrace and forgive any kind of persecution or opposition for the sake of the persecutor.
If we all become one with True Mother, which is our portion of responsibility, all factions will disappear and God will take responsibility over the rest.
True Parents’ remaining wish is for North and South Korea to realize Heavenly Unified Korea and become the substantial Cheon Il Guk.
God gave the commandment not to the archangel but only to the human beings. In the fall, it was human beings who made a mistake. The archangel had no portion of responsibility.
We should become filial sons and daughters who realize True Parents’ dream of a substantial Cheon Il Guk.
To achieve dreams and visions, the most important thing is an earnest heart and longing to fulfill them.
We should value our relationship with our parents more than any other horizontal relationship, more than that with any girlfriend or boyfriend.
Love is longing.
Longing for God and True Parents is the way to overcome all difficulties, trials and temptations.
Adam and Eve betrayed the heart of the ideal of creation and the heart of hope.
The course of faith is to experience God's heart and establish an inseparable parent-child relationship with Him.
The biggest betrayal of all is the betrayal of the heart.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is one of love and heart, of serving and attending each other. Our relationships with the closest people must become a little more affectionate, a little more hopeful, and a little deeper in heart.
To always renew our minds, we should always meditate on True Parents words and repeat them.
Whatever you do, you must put your shimjeong and sincerity into it.
Our conscience is our parent, teacher and leader.
Our conscience is always directed towards the truth, sincerity and shimjeong.
The age of love is the age of serving our conscience like God. God is nowhere else.
If we become one with our conscience, we will live a life with God.
Our Family Federation should become a family federation of love, as should our church and family.
Now is the time to testify to the experience of living with God.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “True Mother’s Words, 2023 Cheon Il Guk Leaders” New Year Celebration, January 3, 2023.” just a few days ago.
This speech is very short but, I think, very important. I would like to explain what True Mother is talking about. Please listen carefully to True Mother’s direction to us.
True Mother’s Words, 2023 Cheon Il Guk Leaders’ New Year Celebration, January 3, 2023
Beloved leaders, blessed families, and members throughout the world!
The new year of the black rabbit has dawned, in which your most earnest wishes will become tangible beacons of hope and illuminate all of humankind. This year, the 11th of Cheon Il Guk, which sees the conclusion of a 10-year cycle and a new beginning, is the year of the black rabbit filled with indescribable delight and joy in which the providence unfolds substantially on earth together with the dream and wish of the Creator, our Heavenly Parent and with True Parents. Like a rabbit, be industrious and fruitful. This is the year of an intelligent, well-loved animal that people cannot treat thoughtlessly. Notably, the color black draws in all light.
True Mother said: “The new year of the black rabbit has dawned, in which your most earnest wishes will become tangible beacons of hope and illuminate all of humankind. “ What kind of meaning do these words hold? This year, True Parents and God’s most earnest wish is the dedication ceremony of the Cheon Won Gung to be held on May 5th of this year.
This means that the Cheon Won Gung, which Heavenly Parent, True Parents, and we have only dreamed of, is finally going to be dedicated before Heaven and become the beacon of hope for all of humankind.
Since Cheon Il Guk was proclaimed in 2013, True Mother made a promise to God and True Father that she would dedicate the Cheon Il Sanctum or temple, and we don’t know how long she had been waiting for that day to come. Now, when the dedication ceremony is over, True Parents’ remaining final wish is to dedicate South Korea as Cheon Il Guk.
Next, she says “(This year,) the 11th of Cheon Il Guk, sees the conclusion of a ten-year cycle and a new beginning. The past ten years of Cheon Il Guk were the formation stage from 2013 to 2022. The next ten years of Cheon Il Guk correspond to the growth stage, and it will be 2033 when True Mother turns 90 years-old.
And 2043, the ten years of the completion stage, is the year True Mother becomes 100 years old. While True Mother is alive on this earth, we need to work hard so that a heavenly unified world can be completed as well as the heavenly unified Korea. How old will you be in 20 years from now? I will be 86 years-old.
No matter what happens, we cannot go to the spirit world before True Mother. In Korea, when a child goes to the spirit world before their parents, we consider that unfilial. I hope you all, and myself as well, will make effort to take care of your health. And we should also be active internally and bring substantial results of love.
Her next words: “This year is the year of the black rabbit filled with indescribable delight and joy in which the providence unfolds substantially on earth together with the dream and wish of the Creator, our Heavenly Parent and with True Parents.” This is proclaiming that along with the dedication of Cheon Won Gung, God’s amazing providence will unfold internally and externally, and Heaven’s tremendous blessings will come.
In her following words, Mother blessed us to “be industrious and fruitful like a rabbit.” In Korea, a black rabbit is a symbol of blessings. The color black holds the meaning of absorbing all the sun’s light. When we think of the sunlight as representing Heaven’s blessings, it means that the black rabbit, as a symbol of Heaven’s blessings, accepts all things. And rabbits are prolific and very clever.
As we welcome such a year of the rabbit, I think that these are True Mother’s words of encouragement for us to be like rabbits and bring about the multiplication of love through the blessing and witnessing, and even though we have the course to overcome difficult persecutions, we should cleverly overcome everything like rabbits.
No one can deny the warmth we feel as we gradually receive more heat from the sun. In other words, all the unpleasant things that were unsatisfactory last year are gone. I hope that centered on Heavenly Parent, you will become united blessed families and Cheonbo couples that can newly cherish and embrace people in all situations, and that you ultimately become blessed families that are respected and spoken of with pride as victors in front of Heaven and all of humankind.
This country, which lies at the center of Heavenly Parent's realm—the realm Heavenly Parent directly governs—must become the heavenly unified Korea, mustn't it? For this, I sincerely ask all of you to become filial sons and daughters who unite in heart and will to substantially achieve Heavenly Parent's dream.
Her next words are: “No one can deny the warmth we feel as we gradually receive more heat from the sun. In other words, all the unpleasant things that were unsatisfactory last year are gone. Centered on Heavenly Parent, become united blessed families and Cheonbo couples that can newly cherish and embrace people in all situations.”
These words proclaim that even though Japan faces a lot of persecution and opposition, just as no one can avoid the heat from the sun, this year, Heaven’s tremendous blessings will come down and all difficulties from last year will rather turn into blessings.
Also, Mother tells us that we Unification church members are to become blessed families who embrace and forgive any kind of persecution or opposition. For persecution to become blessings, we need principles and conditions that follow them.
This is only possible when the persecuted embraces and forgives everything for the sake of the persecutor. When Jesus prayed for blessings for his enemies even while dying on the cross, it became the condition for Jesus to be resurrected, and it became an opportunity for Jesus' scattered disciples to unite again and lead Christianity in the early days.
True Mother then says, “I hope that you ultimately become blessed families that are respected and spoken of with pride as victors in front of Heaven and all of humankind.” Then what should we do to become victors in front of all humankind who are respected?
She has said multiple times that it is by becoming one with True Mother. The most important thing in this age today is the path to becoming one with Mother. If we all become one with Mother, all factions will disappear and God will take responsibility over the rest. That is why becoming one is our portion of responsibility. If we just become one, then God will do the rest.
Next, she says “This country, which lies at the center of Heavenly Parent's realm—the realm Heavenly Parent directly governs—must become the heavenly unified Korea” Now, True Parents’ remaining wish is for North and South Korea to realize Heavenly Unified Korea and become the substantial Cheon Il Guk.
The last words of True Mother’s request were “I sincerely ask all of you to become filial sons and daughters who unite in heart and will to substantially achieve Heavenly Parent's dream.”
True Mother has asked that all of us Unification Church members become even more united with her and become filial sons and daughters who realize True Parents’ dream of a substantial Cheon Il Guk.
Wow! Very powerful words. Though very short, it is very meaningful. Mother is telling us where to go, our direction. Let’s really unite with Mother. She is our hope, our way, our truth, our central figure on the earth. Our True Father, who is in the spiritual world, really supports Mother. Please pray to True Father what his wish is. He says, “You need to unite with Mother.” That is the only way we can create a unified Korea and a unified world.
Also, Mother is seriously paying attention to two things: one is the inauguration ceremony of the Cheon Won Gung, centering on the Cheon Il Temple. That is Mother’s vision. How seriously she is waiting for that day! That is why I encourage you to come to Korea to celebrate together with True Mother. Mother is already 80 years old. How long and how often will you be able to see True Mother? Who is she? She is not a simple woman. She is God’s begotten daughter. She is really the central figure on the earth now. Then how often can you see her? Before you go to the spiritual world, you need to see Mother more often.
This inauguration ceremony of the Cheon Won Gung is not just a worldwide event, not just a historical event. It is a cosmic-level event. (It is) once in eternity. It will never come again. True Mother already proclaimed the Cheon Il Guk in 2013. That was the greatest turning point. Then Mother said she needed to offer the temple and the Cheon Il Guk government building, which is the Cheon Won Gung. Now she has that.
Her final goal is to create a unified Korea. If we create a unified Korea, we have no need to worry about a heavenly unified world. If there is unity between North and South Korea, automatically we can create a unified world. That is Mother’s wish.
I am so happy that Mother said the first ten years of Cheon Il Guk are over. Now is the second ten-year course. (In that way) Mother said she will live a long life. I am so glad. Even though True Father passed away at the age of 93, True Mother, before she goes to the spiritual world, needs to establish the substantial Cheon Il Guk with our support. That is Mother’s wish, True Father’s wish, True Parents’ wish. Now is the (fulfillment of the) second one.
The first at the formation level was to proclaim the Cheon Il Guk substantially. The second was offering the Cheon Won Gung by May 5, (2023,) and the final one, the completion stage, is the substantial Cheon Il Guk centered on a unified Korea.
This kind of cosmic event, if you do not attend it, I think you will surely regret it. I think your ancestors will accuse you. Even though it is not easy, I encourage you to offer your heart and mind to help (with the) Cheon Won Gung building as well. This is very important.
That is True Mother’s word – very short, but very important directions to us.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 15 - Why God set up the Commandment as an Object of Faith
• Why did God nurture the faith of Adam and Eve by giving them the commandment, "Do not eat of the fruit"?
• In their immature state, Adam and Eve could not be directly governed by God through love. Because the power of love is stronger than the power of the Principle, God foresaw that if they ever formed a common base with the Archangel, there was a possibility that they could succumb to the power of deviant, unprincipled love and fall.
• It was not only to prevent their fall that God gave immature human beings the commandment. God also wanted them to enjoy dominion over the natural world by inheriting His creative nature. In order to inherit this creatorship, human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the Word as their own portion of responsibility.
• Furthermore, God gave the commandment not to the Archangel but only to the human beings. God wished to exalt the dignity of human beings as bestowed by the Principle of Creation, which entitled them to stand as God's children and govern even the angels.
God gave the commandment not to the archangel but only to the human beings. Human beings made a mistake. The archangel had no portion of responsibility. Of course, he had to take care of Adam and Eve. God actually cannot scold(?) the archangel. The human beings had their portion of responsibility. Can you imagine that? If the archangel had his own portion of responsibility, maybe he would be the same as human beings and have the qualification to dominate all things. But God created the archangel as the servant to support God and human beings. His position was very clear. God created human beings as his own sons and daughters and heirs and co-creators. This is different. We have to know the heavenly order. Actually human beings made a mistake, not the archangel. Of course, the archangel tempted (Adam and Eve) but overcoming was the human portion of responsibility.
• God's second blessing was to be fulfilled when Adam and Eve entered God's direct dominion of love, by joining as true husband and wife and bearing and raising children in God's love.
• Indeed, the Principle mandates that human beings eat of the fruit once they reach full maturity of character.
• Accordingly, God's commandment, “Do not eat of the fruit," was binding upon Adam and Eve only while they were immature.
Based on this Exposition of the Divine Principle let’s study Father’s word.
Adam and Eve who had to Have the Commandment: “Do not Eat of the Fruit”as Their Daily Motto
<5-265> Adam and Eve who didn’t have the admiration feeling, cherished the words of the archangel infiltrating from a side more than God’s words. There began the sadness of humankind. It is the very origin of a dark sleep.
If Adam and Eve at such a moment could have recognized God’s words not to eat with opening up their eyes again; if they could have reminded themselves that much bigger things than the archangel’s words awaited for them after God blessed them to dominate all things, there would have been no Human Fall. This made all the detailed accounts of humankind. We ourselves must start a movement to seek for ourselves and try to find our own responsibility, and find out whom we can become after that.
Because Adam and Eve had no feelings of admiration for the dream and vision of God, who bestowed (on) them the three great blessings (becoming fruitful and multiplying and having dominion over all things), cherished the words of the archangel infiltrating from the side more than God’s words.
In order for Adam and Eve to overcome the archangel's temptation, they had to have more hope and earnestness than anyone else to achieve the three great blessings, the vision and dream bestowed by God.
To achieve dreams and visions, the most important thing is an earnest heart and longing for them. If you do not have an earnest and longing heart to achieve your dreams, you will be subject to horizontal temptations and trials. Adam and Eve had to yearn and long for the world that would unfold to them after they achieved the three great blessings.
What we need to realize is that we must live with an inseparable heartistic relationship between parents and children. It means that we should value our relationship with our parents more than any other horizontal relationship, more than any girlfriend or boyfriend.
Love is longing. A person without longing is a dead person. While living a life of faith, we must know that how much we miss God and True Parents is the way to overcome all difficulties, trials, and temptations.
If we truly love True Father and True Mother and truly have a heartistic relationship (with them), we cannot commit sin. But if there is a distance, even though we say we love True Parents and the Divine Principle, if there is no real heartistic relationship, Satan can invade any time because your horizontal love is stronger than your vertical love. One who truly loves God, one who truly has an experience of God’s heart, one who truly loves True Parents, cannot fall because he can feel God’s and True Parents’ sorrowful heart. That is why the fall means one does not yet understand God’s and True Parents’ heart and has not experienced it. Anyone who has experienced God’s heart cannot fall. Our final goal is to experience God’s heart. Anyone who has really experienced God’s and True Parents’ heart cannot fall. Real filial sons and daughters cannot go their own way. That’s why anyone who lacks filial piety is dangerous. He can fall any time.
The Bible says the most important commandment is to “love the lord with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul.” We need ... vertical alignment. If we thoroughly keep the first commandment, ... you love your brothers and sisters and the nation and whole world. That is why we all need to emphasize vertical alignment and love God. We need to put God as our top priority – more than money, more than eating, sex, sleeping, more than anything, more than girlfriend or boyfriend. Our number one is God.
In our family our God is our parents. If our parents are upset and ask us not to do (something), then we don’t do it. ... If we really love our father and mother, then we don’t want to make them worry.
If I explain this, it will take a long time.
What did our Ancestors Betray?
<9-112> We are the fallen descendants who betrayed God’s heart. People, do you know what our ancestors betrayed? Do you simply think they only picked up the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil prohibited to be eaten? Not at all.
It betrayed the Heart, it did betray the heart of God. The problem lies in here. So what kind of heart was betrayed? The heart of the ideal of creation and the heart of hope were betrayed. Everybody, what do you think is the purpose of receiving grace? Once you get more grace, the better experience of God’s heart comes to you. In other words, without learning the Bible, you are able to explain it with the heart. Seeing this, the purpose of receiving grace is to realize God’s heart.
Is anyone of whom people have been praising for his/her filial piety, fidelity or loyalty throughout human history just nominated to such titles without putting in any efforts? There is no one like that. These people are the ones who had committed themselves to cling to the heart for their own parents despite of the danger that one may be dead being cut off from the neck. They are the same upon God.
We are the fallen descendants who betrayed God’s heart. People, do you know what our ancestors betrayed? Do you simply think they only picked up the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil prohibited to be eaten? Not at all. They betrayed the Heart, they did betray the heart of God.
What kind of heart of God did Adam and Eve betray? It took God tens of millions of years to create the entire universe for the sake of the ideal world that His children, Adam and Eve, will enjoy.
God wanted to see the day when the ideal of creation was fulfilled through Adam and Eve. Without knowing this, Adam and Eve betrayed the heart of the ideal of creation and the heart of hope, for which God had waited immeasurably with such joy.
Can you imagine that? God created everything, the whole universe, only for the sake of his children, Adam and Eve. How much effort Heavenly Father put into it. He created the sun, the moon, the ocean. It took a long time to create the environment. Everything was for his children.
Then when Adam and Eve were young, how much God loved them and took care of them and asked the archangel to take care of them. But in one second Adam and Eve ... If they knew how much God invested for their sake, how much God loved them, they could not have betrayed God’s heart. Can you imagine that?
When we raised our second generation and third generation, our children, how much did we sacrifice as a parent (for them) – ten, 12, 13, 17, 18 years. Then one day they went to the university or went outside and met a girlfriend or a boyfriend and fell even though their parents had said not to do that. Can you imagine that? How much of a bitter heart their parents have. How much parents had wished for them to grow up well! Oh my God! (They) betrayed (their parents’) heart! It is so painful! Do you understand what I mean?
Adam and Eve betrayed God’s heart. God told them, “Do you know how much I love you? How come you betrayed my heart? I invested billions of years and created the entire universe for you; now you betrayed me(?).”
What is the Fall? It is when humans do not know the parental heart, how much God loves His children. In the end, the course of faith is to experience God's heart and establish an inseparable parent-child relationship with Him.
Seeing this, the purpose of receiving grace is to realize God’s heart. Is anyone whom people have been praising for his/her filial piety, fidelity or loyalty throughout human history, just nominated to such titles without putting (in) any efforts? There is no one like that. These people are the ones who had committed themselves to cling to the heart for their own parents despite the danger that one may be (killed), being cut off (at) the neck.
How disappointed God is. (They) betrayed his heart.
Father raised the 36 couples and invested and invested in them. In the end they (one of them?) betrayed True Parents. How much True Father invested, but he betrayed True Parents’ heart.
Never ever betray our True Parents’ heart! They have taught us that God exists and is our parent, that they came as the savior. They gave us the blessing and have taught us eternal truth. How much True Parents have given us: the Blessing, children, salvation. They have taught us. How many times have we betrayed True Parents’ heart. ...
Let’s say in our family the father goes one way and the mother goes another. Should the children follow the father or the mother? What does a filial son do? The filial son becomes the mediator; he does not go to one side and blame the other. He becomes the mediator to bring them back (together) again. ...
Even more so, in order to establish a parent-child relationship of heart with God, more heart, effort, and sacrifice are required. That is why Jesus did not pray for himself even on the cross, but prayed for God and the people of Israel, and True Father comforted God even in the place of suffering such as severe torture and Heungnam Prison.
Do you understand? Jesus invested so much for the 12 disciples, day and night. He loved them, fed them, cared for them. When Jesus was crucified, everybody ran away. Jesus healed so many people, disabled people. ... They betrayed Jesus’ heart. ... The Israeli people betrayed him.
We are True Parents’ children. We are blessed families. No matter what ... (we cannot betray them?) ...
The biggest betrayal of all is the betrayal of the heart.
How much True Parents invested! We are so indebted to True Parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Let us Renew Our Hearts We Must Conform to the Age of Love and Become Renewed
1. We are now living in the era of Cheon Il Guk, the age of love. Everyone is realizing that in this changing age, we are people that must also be born anew. For us ourselves to also conform to this new age and gradually grow more new, hopeful, and ambitious, our relationships with the closest people must become a little more affectionate, a little more hopeful, and a little deeper in heart. Just as a physically healthy person breathes naturally or is always joyful and feels as if eating for the first time even if they eat the same food, our life of faith must be the same. Just as babies’ lives are always new and grow up rapidly through love in their relationship with their mother, we must also become people with hearts in true love, who always live like it’s the first time without living out of habit. We, too, must give and receive true love amicably and lead a new life, a life of hope and a life of ambition.
We are living in the age of Cheon Il Guk beyond the age of law like the Old Testament age and the age of faith in the New Testament age. The era of Cheon Il Guk is an era in which love and heart are the center, serving and attending each other. Therefore, we must always live with awareness that the times have changed.
Just as new wine must be put in a new wineskin in line with the new time, we must know that we must be born again in a new era. In this present age, unless we do it in the name of love and heart, God and the spirit world do not focus.
For us ourselves to also conform to this new age and gradually grow more new, hopeful, and ambitious, our relationships with the closest people must become a little more affectionate, a little more hopeful, and a little deeper in heart.
Just as a physically healthy person breathes naturally or is always joyful and feels as if (he is) eating for the first time even if he eats the same food, our life of faith must be the same. We must also become people with hearts in true love, who always live (as if) it is the first time without living out of habit.
Renew Our Minds
2. With our life of faith, rather than living centered on the physical five sensory organs, we need to know how to live with the heart. A heartistic life does not have any habits or preconceived notions, and it is always new and full of hope. To have a heartistic life, first, we cannot become people who live with our physical thinking, rational logic, habits, or without consciousness. The efforts, jeongseong, and wisdom of us, who know how to always live with new values and mind like the first time, are necessary. Even when we do Hoondokhae, we need to realize Heavenly Parent’s heart hidden in True Parents’ profound words. We should heartistically accept True Parents’ teachings to us to always renew our minds. To do that, we should always meditate on the words True Parents have taught us and repeat them within our mind, remembering them awake or asleep and know how to make it come to life in our minds. As long as this way of life does not continue, our life of faith will not be full of ambition and eventually lose hope.
With our life of faith, rather than living centered on the physical five sensory organs, we need to know how to live with the heart. A heartistic life does not have any habits or preconceived notions, and it is always new and full of hope.
In order to live a heartistic life, first our hearts must be sincere.
If we are really sincere, we can lead a heartistic life. Sincerity.
There should be no blanks in our minds. Then, our values will always be new and we will live with the same mindset as at the first time.
If we live with a faithful and sincere heart, our heart will always arise voluntarily and can overcome all external forms, habits and conditions.
I love the word “sincerity.” When we (invest) our utmost sincerity, then our heart can come out. We can (stimulate) our heart. Why do we become external, have no power and become habitual and formal? Because we have no content. What kind of content? No sincerity.
(We should invest) our utmost sincerity. Then we can become a heartistic person and we can grow day by day because we (invest) our sincerity.
Father said we cannot move God’s heart with money or power or any external things. We can only move God’s heart with utmost sincerity. An utmost sincere heart moves heaven. No external power. How can we (stimulate) our heart? (With) a sincere heart.
Even when we do Hoondokhae, we need to realize Heavenly Parent’s heart hidden in True Parents’ profound words. We should heartistically accept True Parents’ teachings to us to always renew our minds. To do that, we should always meditate on the words True Parents have taught us and repeat them within our mind, remembering them awake or asleep and know how to make them come to life in our minds.
The Reason We Lose Our Shimjeong (Heart)
3. When we open our eyes in the morning, they often become eyes that have nothing to do with God; when we say something, we often say things that have nothing to do with God; when we have some thoughts, we often have self-centered thoughts that have nothing to do with God. Then, by always living superficially and externally, we experience that we are unable to have thoughts that come from our shimjeong, our heart is always in poverty, and we are just dominated by physical desires, so we lose our shimjeong and our mind has no choice but to suffer pain and get stuck in the realm of death. Now that we have ushered in a new age of love, we must become people who arm ourselves with the Word, gain strength in our mind with the Word, and live a hopeful life.
When we open our eyes in the morning, they often become eyes that have nothing to do with God; when we say something, we often say things that have nothing to do with God; when we have some thoughts, we often have self-centered thoughts that have nothing to do with God.
Today I spent time with my family. I invited my family members and had a meal. I always thought, “If God were here, how could I treat each one of them, my children, ... and my wife, not just as a physical father or son. God has to be there. (We need to be) centered on God’s point of view. Just human ... has nothing to do with God.
When we live centered on our physical five senses, our thoughts always flow superficially and externally. If so, we experience that we are unable to have thoughts that come from our shimjeong, our heart is always in poverty, and we are just dominated by physical desires, and we lose our shimjeong and stay in the realm of death where our minds are bound to suffer.
Why do we get easily tired, easily lose motivation and easily become lonely? It's because our life isn't true.
No sincerity. Just try to get external results. ... We cannot find God. ... Sincerity has to be there.
It's because it's too external and perfunctory, and it's because you live for results. Therefore, you must always put the point in your minds and lead a life of truth. Whatever you do, you must put your shimjeong and sincerity into it.
The Conscience is Our Parent, Teacher and Owner
4. True Parents have taught us that our conscience is our parent, teacher, and leader. We are well aware that in the physical world, our life of faith is ultimately guided by the conscience to live a victorious life each day, and in the end, we arrive in the eternal world. Ultimately, a life of attendance is to attend my conscience like God. And in human relationships, we are to attend all people and all things related to me like God. However, in such life of attendance, if this is not practiced in human relationships and they become severed, we ourselves and our families fall into a pitch black puddle and it becomes dangerous. How we can put the Word into practice and live a life in which the conscience shines is ultimately each’s own responsibility. The question is how we each handle ourselves and how I handle my family. I either handle my family as a family centered on my own flesh and blood or I handle them as a God-centered family.
Our True Parents have taught us that our conscience is our parent, teacher, and leader. Our conscience is always directed towards the truth, sincerity and shimjeong.
After all, the age of love is the age of serving our conscience like God. God is nowhere else. If we become one with our conscience, we will live a life with God. Where do we put our conscience aside and seek God?
In human relationships, we are to attend all people and all things related to me like God. However, in such life of attendance, if this is not practiced in human relationships and they become severed, we ourselves and our families fall into a pitch black puddle and it becomes dangerous.
How do we handle ourselves? Do we treat ourselves as just our own? Or do we treat (ourselves) as God's? How do I deal with my family? Do I treat my family as just a family centered on flesh and blood? Or do I treat it as a God-centered family?
The Mission of Family Federation
5. Our Family Federation must become a Family Federation of love, and our church must become a church of love. Our Family Federation should become a model that goes beyond love, peace, and happiness and shines light before the world and fulfill the mission of salt. To do that, we have to become such models, starting from me myself and my family. We need to keep in mind that this is what Heavenly Parent and True Parents wish for.
As we enter the age of love, our Family Federation must become a family federation of love, our church must become a church of love, and our families must become families of true love.
Because this is an era of love. We need to know what kind of time we live in.
Therefore, our Family Federation should become a model that goes beyond love, peace, and happiness and shines light before the world and fulfills the mission of salt.
Now, the era of proclaiming the Word has passed. The Era for preaching has also passed. It should be an era in which each of us can testify to each other about the life in which we have met God. Now is the time to testify to the experience of living with God. We need to keep in mind that this is what Heavenly Parent and True Parents wish for.
Today I talked about renewing our heart.
Today I shared True Mother’s recent speech. It took a long time. But True Mother’s guidance was very important.♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
This lightly edited transcript may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable, inaudible or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved if understandable. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated.
Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through March 29, 2022 are available as six paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦