Ep 488 - Let Us Resemble True Parents Part 1
Let Us Resemble True Parents 123-8-13-40 - February 25, 2022
Today I’d like to talk about “Let Us Resemble True Parents” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
You must have heard stories about True Father going fishing or hunting. Every time Father goes fishing, I find myself pondering. Father is one of the busiest people in the world. He is always talking about the providence and taking care of business and thinking up complex plans in order to realize it. However when he is fishing, he looks like he is not thinking about anything other than fishing and concentrates completely on it like it's the most fun activity in the world. When he was young, if he saw a big fish in the pond, he would go fishing there for 40 days straight saying that he had to catch that fish. I don't think there's anyone in history who has as much will and tenacity as True Father. I hope that you will long and yearn for God the father and that you will learn the truth and strive to become the source of the truth until the day when you become perfected people who resemble God. (1967.08.03, Tokyo Church, Japan)
True Mother said that True Father is the busiest man in the world with the work of God's providence, but when he is fishing, he looks like he is not thinking about anything other than fishing and concentrates completely on it as if it's the most fun activity in the world.
It is truly surprising that True Father is doing his best in the given reality and at the same time envisioning the future of the providence. We learn that True Father meditates, prays, and envisions the future of the providence while fishing.
When True Father sets a goal and decides to achieve it, he certainly achieves it. True Mother testifies that she doesn't think there's anyone in history who has as much will and tenacity as True Father.
The three secrets of True Father's practice are to first center on the vision and goal he sets up and (to) think and meditate more than anyone else on how to achieve it. Second, he prepares more than anyone else. The third is to move more than anyone else.
We need to learn True Parents three secrets. Number one, you need to think and think more than anyone else. Thinking is prayer. It is one of the ways to receive inspiration from heaven, how to solve (problems), how to settle down. This is one of True Parents’ different practices. You need to think a lot, more than anyone else. Secondly, you need to prepare more than anyone else. Without preparation, time just goes away. That is why you need to prepare very well. Thirdly, you need to take action. You need to move more than anyone else. This is the way you can achieve the goal.
True Father has no private life. He lives like he has forgotten about it. However when it comes to humankind, he treasures every last person in his heart and believes that he has to raise them up to stand before God. He is pouring out his heart and soul to save people so that they can be reborn as filial sons and daughters. He is always thinking about you members and your personal lives. There is not a day that he does not worry and think about you. I always feel sorry to True Father. Even if Father goes to bed late, he rises early in the morning and prays seriously. Even if the wind is blowing or if it is raining, night and day he is praying for you, the children of the Unification Church. When I see the face of Father meditating deeply on how to fulfill God's Will, I think he is someone whom God cannot help but love. (1967.08.03, Tokyo Church, Japan)
It is a beautiful and incredible testimony about True Father.
True Father forgets his private life, but he lives with the conviction that he must treasure every last person in his heart and set the person upright before God.
There is not a day when he is not always thinking and worried, especially about the health of our church members. Looking at this, we cannot deny that True Father is truly the parent among parents.
When True Mother goes to bed and wakes up at dawn, she said that True Father is already praying diligently without her knowing when he woke up.
It is truly amazing that True Father is praying for us, day or night, whether it is windy or rainy. Father is a person of prayer and a person of jeongseong devotion.
True Mother testified of True Father, saying, “When I see the face of Father meditating deeply on how to fulfill God's Will, I think he is someone whom God cannot help but love.” Have you ever received such a testimony from your spouse like what True Mother said? Have you ever received such a testimony from someone close to you? Have you ever received a testimony from Cain from those around you, saying, “When I see that kind of Abel, if God is alive and works, He has no choice but to help”?
Because Mother was living with True Father side by side, her testimony about his life is really incredible.
According to True Mother's testimony about True Father, True Father got up earlier than True Mother and prayed throughout his life. Always True Father woke up earlier than True Mother.
We can emulate True Parents' life when we receive testimonies from our closest partner (our spouse) and from the Cain closest to us.
This is a leading(?) testimony about who True Father was. It is really an incredible testimony from True Mother. If God is alive and looks at True Father’s life, Heavenly Father has no choice but to help. That is the testimony from our True Mother.
Can I receive such a testimony from my wife, from our brothers and sisters, from my own children and from my enemy?
True Father’s lifestyle is truly exemplary. He is really a man of prayer. He is always crying for the sake of God’s providence. He always worries about Unificationists, those who are working on the front line. How can Father forget that as a parent? That is why we can say True Parents are really the parents of parents, the teachers of teachers, the owners of owners. I am really inspired by True Mother’s testimony about who True Father is.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principles of Creation 21 - Pair System and Our Daily Life
Let’s study from the EDP.
The Reason All Beings Are Composed of Dual Characteristics
• For any being to exist, energy is required, and energy can be produced only through give and take action. However, nothing can reciprocate without a partner. Hence, a being must contain dual characteristics, a subject partner and an object partner, which can engage in give and take action.
• For anything to have an eternal nature it must move in a circle. Give and take action between a subject partner and an object partner is necessary for any circular motion. This is true even for God; having dual characteristics allows Him to live eternally. In order for God's creation to resemble His eternal nature, it likewise must be composed of dual characteristics.
Based on “The Reason All Beings Exist in A Pair System,” let’s study Father’s word directly.
The Heavenly Principle Under Which Subject and Object Partners Exist
<222-39> All existing beings consist of positivity and negativity. This is the laws of the heavenly principle. As you know, plus ions and minus ions exist in the mineral world. It is in pairs. In the plant world there is a stamen and pistil. In the animal world, they all consist of male and female under a subject-object partner relationship. Wasn’t it announced recently that even tiny bugs and viruses exist as a couple?
Love and the Theory of Evolution
<222-39> Did the love organs of the male and female evolve so that they would fit in that way? The theory of evolution is the problem. What path connects this allowing a pair of amoebas to come in contact with a pair of a mid-level being? I am asking whether it can be in contact not only horizontally but in all different ways. It cannot! The world of male and female emerged centering on the concept of love; evolution is on an unrelated dimension.
Evolution or Harmony?
What is the center by which the male and female can fit together? They fit together centering on love. There is no denying that male and female were created for the sake of love. I am saying that it existed even before evolution. The concept of male and female existed even before evolution. This point is important. Smart people lost direction on the path of life as they were unable to overcome the pass of the historic struggle centering on the question of whether evolution or harmony should prevail. You must understand that this is important.
The Reason Subject Partner and Object Partner Exist
<229-272> All things exist in pairs. This must all be put in order. Because of this pair system, all things are in a subject-object partner relationship like plus and minus. The reason why subject partner and object partner emerged is because of love. It emerged in order to bring focus. Do you understand? In this way, the entire universe must all conform to God’s central focus point. Centering on this connecting point, the individual must connect to the family, and the family to the tribe. Everything must be connected in this way.
God exists as the dual characteristics of internal nature (subject) and external form (object). All beings resembling God exist as a pair system of subject and object.
In a word, the system of the kingdom of heaven is a pair system. Heaven cannot be entered and does not exist unless the pair system is established. In the kingdom of heaven, pairs appear as one. It is a world that cannot exist in half. Grandmother must be next to grandfather, mother must be next to father, wife must be next to husband, and all children are in pairs. You fail because you can’t share love when you're alone. If you can’t become a pair, you have to wait in Paradise until you can match the structure.
The system of the kingdom of heaven is based upon the pair system, subject and object. That’s why you alone without marriage, you cannot exist and live in the kingdom of heaven because the structure of the kingdom of heaven is based on the system of pairs.
Then why is everything in pairs? This is very clear. To share and realize love. Right? You cannot produce love, joy and happiness alone. You can only produce love, joy and happiness through your object partner. That is why surely the subject and object partners do exist together. That is based on the system of pairs. The subject alone can never realize love. The object alone also can never realize love. To realize love, there must be a subject and an object. In this way, we need to know that the pair system is the center of all the universe and Heaven.
This is a really important point that we can learn from the Divine Principle.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Path of Becoming True Mother(3) - Lessons from Rachel
1. On the path to becoming True Mother, Rachel’s course can teach many lessons. Since Jacob had a high standard for God’s Will, Rachel was drawn to his heart, and from the beginning, she served and supported Jacob with all her heart. God, who wanted to restore the blood lineage of fallen man, had a wish to have a new descendant on the heavenly side through a woman like Rachel. Rachel must have been indebted in love to Jacob. That is why Rachel was drawn to Jacob, and Jacob must have dedicated all his strength and devotion to Rachel.
2. When God wants to use a person as the central figure, He allows a certain time period for that person to receive love. However, after a certain period of time, God pushes the person into a certain conflict and alienates them in order to train them. This is to make him aware that the time has come when he must repay the love he has received. Thus, conflicts and quarrels arise between siblings and colleagues around them. How can they be victorious then? It shouldn't be different from before and after I had a conflict or quarrel. You should always serve the person you served with the same heart. There is no other way.
I want to share my personal testimony.
I was with Rev. Yohan Lee for about 7 to 8 years. During that time, I learned a lot and received unimaginable love. That was a period when I, too, was loved by Abel. Now that I think about it, it seems that the reason God allowed such a period of love and education for me was for my mission as a pioneer for the providence of the world someday.
Ever since I left Rev. Yohan Lee's arms of love, I have always been at the forefront of the providence. Through many trials and difficulties, I realized that I must repay the love I received from God, True Parents, and Rev. Yohan Lee. When I started my world mission, I was faced with so much persecution and opposition wherever I went, and I was expelled from other countries seven times. At the same time, there were many Cain and Abel conflicts.
However, I realized that no matter what situation I am in, my heart to serve God, my heart to serve Abel, and my heart to serve Cain must not change.
Looking at Jacob's journey, Rachel was once very much loved by Jacob. However, after Jacob met Leah, Rachel felt a lack of love. But the important thing is that she had to treat Jacob with the same unchanging love as when she was receiving his love and after he met Leah. When she can do that, all conflicts can be resolved.
3. Rachel and Leah quarreled and had conflicts with each other. From Rachel’s point of view, when she saw Leah give birth to her baby and take him towards Jacob, she must have begun to feel sad that she had lost her husband. If Leah took Jacob and her children into her room, Rachel would have been lonely in her husbandless home. For Rachel, the environment around her gradually changed. At that time, Rachel should have been grateful for Jacob’s heart, whom she received more love from than Leah, and her heart should not have changed. However, instead of thinking of the love she received from Jacob, she compared it to the love that Leah was receiving and became upset.
We, Unification Church members, have received blessings and grace from God and True Parents that are unfathomable and incomparable to secular people of the world who do not know the Will.
We are in a position in which people in the world cannot avoid feeling envy and jealousy when they see us.
The reason we have received so much blessing and love from Heaven is that we must return God's love and blessings to those who do not yet know the Will.
If we always only think of the love we have received from Heaven in the past and try to receive more, we will not be able to overcome trials and difficulties when they come.
4. In such a situation, Rachel should have thought of the love she received until now instead of the decrease of love and think of returning greater love and serving Leah and treated Leah’s children with joy more than her own children. But to Rachel, doing so would have been as difficult as dying. If we were in Rachel’s position, we would have had no choice but to do the same. When we fallen human beings enter the state of death, it is difficult to overcome. If Leah and Rachel met, there would have been a lot of potential for conflict and great fights. For Rachel, her anxiety, loneliness, and alienation that she harbored were likely to explode when she came into contact with Leah.
5. Rachel must have been unaware that there was a time when Leah felt more lonely and alienated than herself when she received abundant love from heaven through her husband Jacob. If Rachel had known Leah’s sorrow, there would not have been any trials. After joining the Unification Church, we have come to know Heaven’s precious and internal shimjeong and received a lot of love, but we do not know the worries of secular people. It is good that we listen to the Principle and live a life full of hope, but we must first realize about secular people and have a humble and sorry heart for being loved by heaven.
Therefore, the way we maintain the first love we have received from God and True Parents is to truly love new church members.
I shouldn't feel a lack of love when I see my Abel love newcomers more than they love me.
When my Abel loves a newcomer, I should not feel a lack of love, but rather I should love that newcomer more than Abel does. When that happens, my fallen nature is liquidated and my lineage is changed gradually.
Today we learned some important points. Through our True Father’s life course and through Rachel’s course, we learned how to raise up our life of faith.♦
Today we learned from God’s providence in the past through Rachel and Leah, but can you imagine True Mother’s life? It is really incredible. In getting along with Father, she needed to go through all kinds of processes of indemnity. After Eve fell, (True Mother is) in the position(?) of Eve, can you imagine? True Mother is really an amazing lady. She is surely God’s only begotten daughter. (She led) a nearly untold(?) life course; she cannot share everything in detail. Just now we have heard True Mother’s testimony under this kind of difficult situation, still she absolutely supported Father. Admired by Father(?)... our True Mother is really amazing. That is why she is really our True Mother.
I think this principle of the pair system can solve so many issues and so many problems because the system of the kingdom of heaven is based on the pair. The pair system means one man and one woman system. It does not mean between male and male. The Heavenly structure is based on the pair system. When we understand very clearly this pair system, we can resolve all the current issues, all same sex marriage, all kinds of things. We need to know what the structure of the kingdom of heaven is, what the original structure of God is. If we do not know the pair system, which is the heavenly system, then we will become very confused about that. That is why our True Parents’ story(?) is the only way to solve the problems.♦
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