Ep 881 - The Path of Life for All Humankind Part 22
The Path of Life for All Humankind – March 25, 2023
Key Points
· On the day that the hearts of men and women can take hold of God’s true love, we will be inspired to sing and dance for tens of thousands of years.
· Just the sight of water flowing in a river will inspire us to sing for a thousand years.
· The value of human beings is that we are in the position of owners who can commune with the universe through true love and feel the sensations of love.
· God is guiding us toward one united world religion that can advance us to higher ground.
· The more advanced a religion is, the more it emphasizes the principle of living for others, with humility and modesty.
· All of mankind must find true original value centered on God and True Parents and create true, blessed families that are one with the parents of heaven and earth.
· Centered on God and True Parents, we must welcome the era of true peace and the true ideal of Heaven in which we eternally live for the sake of others and practice the way of true love.
· 0ur heart will not be united with the heart of God unless we experience the anxious heart that God couldn’t intervene in the Fall of human beings even though He was watching people who were walking the eternal path of death.
· All the tears God shed for earth became an endless sea.
· By understanding the reason God didn’t intervene in the Fall of human beings clearly, we have to live a life of faith, so that we can offer happiness and honor without hurting deeply the heart of God.
· As we usher in the Era of Cheon Il Guk, what should we focus our life on? We must know that now is the age of attendance.
· Until now, fallen human beings have lived without knowing who the subject partner of attendance is.
· True Parents are the Messiahs of love who came as the subject partners of love and resurrected our original hearts.
· Just as Jesus said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘show me the Father?’ True Parents have directly shown us God through their lives.
· If we have a filial heart towards Heaven, all problems will be resolved. If we have a heart of filial piety that serves Heaven, those results will immediately appear even horizontally in human relationships.
· What kind of attitude do we need to have first? It is the attitude of serving True Parents. If we serve others with the heart of serving True Parents, fulfill our own responsibilities well, do not have resentment and complaints against others, but just silently do our own work, then God will lead us.
· If we are moved by the Word and put it into practice, the spirit world will surely praise us, or we will bathe in clear water, or we will dream of being happy in a flower garden.
· The one who guides us before we face difficulties or great trials is the spirit world. And after we do good things, the spirit world cheers us up with joy.
· The Holy Spirit cooperates with us and guides us.
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. ♦
God morning, Good morning, My dear brothers and sisters, clergy and AFP! Today I will go to the Los Angeles Seminar for three days from today. So I ended up recording Morning Devotion. I ask for your understanding. Today I’d like to talk about “The Path of Life for All Humankind” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between February 11 and May 29, 1999 at events promoting the global Expansion of True Families in Japan, the United States and around the world.>
The Path of Life for All Humankind
On the day that the hearts of men and women can take hold of God's true love, we will be inspired to sing and dance for tens of thousands of years. The state of intoxication with God's true love is so wonderful; alcohol or drugs pale to nothingness in comparison. A person can call on any being under heaven and it will respond. Just the sight of water flowing in a river will inspire us to sing for a thousand years. In heaven, even a simple whisper will convey unfathomable tenderness. Everything will have been accomplished, so there will be no need for treasures of gold or anything like that. From this perspective, the value of human beings is that we are in the position of owners who can commune with the universe through true love and feel the sensations of love. Fulfilling this is the path of life that humanity travels.
Until now, people have known relatively little about the spirit world. It is a world where people are recognized depending on how closely they followed God's principle of existence—the principle of living for the sake of others. A world built on this content is the ideal kingdom of heaven. This is the original homeland for which all humankind searches. Today, we live as fallen people who have been expelled from our homeland, so it is our destiny to return there. However, we cannot do this on our own. God has worked through history to resolve this problem by establishing numerous religions in accordance with the different cultural backgrounds, respecting the customs and traditions of various nations. God has done this so that human beings would have a path to find their way back. Religion is the training ground where we can cultivate the qualifications that enable us to return to our homeland. In accordance with the cultural background of each region, God is guiding us toward one united world religion that can advance us to higher ground.
Since religion is supposed to lead us to this homeland, it has to teach us to live for others. The more advanced a religion is, the more it emphasizes the principle of living for others, with humility and modesty. Religion teaches us to exalt all people and to live for others in service and sacrifice. Let us make the new millennium an age of true peace and true ideals, in which people will practice the way of true love. I hope we will recover the value of true original human beings, establish true families, and live for others eternally, centering on God and True Parents. May your families and country be filled with an ever-increasing abundance of God's love and blessings. Thank you very much.
When the hearts of men and women can take a hold of God's true love, we will be inspired to sing and dance for tens of thousands of years. Wow, what a kind of world. The state of intoxication with God's true love is so wonderful; alcohol or drugs pale to nothingness in comparison.
Just the sight of water flowing in a river will inspire us to sing for a thousand years. In heaven, even a simple whisper will convey unfathomable tenderness. Everything will have been accomplished, so there will be no need for treasures of gold or anything like that.
The world that occupies true love is an unimaginably beautiful and mystical world like this, so compared to this, how is the level of our love today? What kind of quality of love do we have? Our love can really influence people. When we think about this, we realize how much of a miserable position we fell due to the human fall.
That is why all religions cannot but teach us to live for the sake of others. Therefore, the higher the religion, the more they emphasize the principle that we must live for the sake of others and teach us to be meek and humble. They teach people to stand in a position that exalts all people and sacrifice for and serve them.
But the important thing is that it does not just end in a life of simply living for the sake of others and being meek and humble. Still that is not enough, but all of mankind must find true original value centered on God and True Parents and create true, blessed families that are one with the parents of heaven and earth. Everybody needs to receive the Blessing, everybody should be Blessed Families, not just living for the sake of others. We need to change the blood lineage.
Therefore, centered on God and True Parents, we must welcome the era of true peace and the true ideal of Heaven in which we eternally live for the sake of others and practice the way of true love. Very beautiful guidance given by our True Mother.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 29: The Reason God Did Not Intervene in the Fall of the First Human Ancestors
· God, being omniscient and omnipotent, must have known about the deviant acts of the first human ancestors which were leading to their Fall. Why, then, did God not intervene to prevent the Fall?
· If God were to intervene in the lives of human beings who are still in the state of immaturity, they would be unable to fulfill their responsibilities and acquire God’s creative nature, failing to qualify as rulers of all things.
· Consequently, it was in order to bless human beings as the lords of creation that God did not interfere in the fallen acts of immature human beings.
All the Tears God Shed for Earth Became an Endless Sea
1. There was a reason that God couldn’t interfere with the Fall of human beings. You have to know His heart. It is quite difficult to understand the reason God didn’t intervene in the Fall of human beings theoretically.
2. Furthermore, it is much more difficult to understand it at heart. However, your heart will not be united with the heart of God unless you experience the anxious heart that God couldn’t intervene in the Fall of human beings even though He was watching people walking the eternal path of death.
From such a viewpoint, fallen people are like undutiful children, unfilial children before God. If those children who are supposed to work hard for their own responsibilities and succeed, make their parents worry and sigh because of their dissipated and irresponsible actions, they would be fallen people like undutiful children.
Therefore, by clearly understanding the reason God didn’t intervene in the Fall of human beings, we have to live a life of faith, so that we can offer happiness and honor without hurting deeply the heart of God.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
Heaven Works According to Our Mindset
What Should We Focus Our Live On?
1. As we usher in the Era of Cheon Il Guk, what should we focus our life on? We must know that now is the age of attendance. It is no longer the age of faith. Now, it is not the age when we believe in God but the age when our minds find peace by attending God 24 hours a day. It is the age in which we find peace by first attending God internally in our hearts and then by attending each other as we attend God through human relationships.
Until now, fallen human beings have lived without knowing who the subject partner of attendance is. But True Parents came to this earth representing God, manifesting as the subject partner of love, and showed us a life of attending God. True Parents are the Messiahs of love who came as the subject partners of love and resurrected our original hearts. True Parents are the ones who activated our long worried and barren hearts like a gushing spring. That is why it even teaches us in the Family Pledge that we are to become filial sons and daughters who attend God and True Parents.
As we usher in the Era of Cheon Il Guk, what should we focus our life on? We must know that now is the age of attendance. It is no longer the age of faith. In the age of attendance, we need to live placing emphasis on Hyojeong, the filial heart.
It is now the age in which we find peace when we attend God in our hearts 24 hours a day while living together with Him. It is the age when we attain peace by first attending God within ourselves, and through such lifestyle and experience. Next, horizontally, in all human relationships, we serve each other just as we serve God.
What is the great thing about True Parents? True Parents came to this earth and directly showed us and practiced how to live attending the invisible God through their own lives. True Parents showed the invisible God as the visible God. This is really amazing. True Father describes this inseparable relationship so well.
Just as Jesus said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘show me the Father?’ True Parents have directly shown us God through their lives. It is really beautiful. That is way, seeing True Father is like seeing God. Seeing True Mother is like seeing God.
True Parents are the Messiahs of love who came as the subject partners of love and resurrected our original hearts. True Parents are the ones who taught us how to activate our worried and barren hearts like a gushing spring. That’s why in my life I am really grateful for True Father and True Mother. If we do not know Principle, we do not know who God is. I am really grateful to True Father because he taught me who God is. He taught me of God’s sorrowful heart. He taught me about the human fall. Through teaching and teaching the Divine Principle, he sent me to the Blessing. And he gave me my wife, he gave me my three children, he gave me five grandchildren. I don’t know how I can pay back. It is really incredible. That’s why I am telling you True Parents are the parents among parents, the teachers among teachers. The owners of all owners. That’s why surely, they must be the Messiahs. How much do you appreciate True Parents?
Serve Others with the Heart of Serving True Parents
2. The reason fallen people have suffered worries and mental pain until now is because they have become unfilial children who left God. Therefore, the way we must go is to become filial sons and daughters who attend God and True Parents. Then, all problems will be resolved. The Bible tells us to be humble and consider others better than ourselves, then our minds will be in peace. Do not be arrogant. Do not assert ourselves. This is how the Bible has shown fallen man the spirit of attendance through many lessons. What kind of attitude do we need to have first? It is the attitude of serving True Parents. If I serve others with the heart of serving True Parents, fulfill my own responsibilities well, do not have resentment and complaints against others, but just silently do my own work, then God will lead me.
Just like the prodigal son in the Bible, unfilial children who leave their parents suffer severe mental pain. As a child, the more you keep away from your parents, nothing in life gets resolved and you always get stuck in something and misfortune will come to you. Any misfortune and troubles come from unfilial piety. The more you keep away from your parents, nothing in life gets resolved. You always get stuck. “What’s going on? What’s wrong with me?” Everything comes from an unfilial heart.
The reason fallen people have suffered worries and mental pain until now is because they have become unfilial children who left God. Therefore, the way we must go is to become filial sons and daughters who attend God and True Parents.
Therefore, if we have a filial heart towards Heaven, all problems will be resolved. If we have a heart of filial piety that serves Heaven, those results will immediately appear even horizontally in human relationships.
The Bible tells us to be humble and consider others better than ourselves, then our minds will be in peace. Do not be arrogant. Do not assert ourselves. This is how the Bible has shown fallen man the spirit of attendance through many lessons.
What kind of attitude do we need to have first? It is the attitude of serving True Parents. If I serve others with the heart of serving True Parents, fulfill my own responsibilities well, do not have resentment and complaints against others, but just silently do my own work, then God will lead me.
When I stayed with Rev. Won (?) he constantly emphasized that as long as we keep filial heart and keep this attitude, God shoulders everything. That’s why human beings as children of God must keep the attitude of filial heart. As long as we have a filial heart, God does everything. Fallen man does not have this kind of filial heart. Always complains, rebels and opposes, this is fallen nature. No vertical alignment. No vertical heart which is filial heart.
Heaven Works According to Our Mindset
3. Our mindset important. It means that if our attitude is to cherish and maintain the mind to serve Heaven, Heaven will automatically guide us. In other words, God works and guides us according to our mindset. Therefore, many believers come to realize through experience that as long as we do not destroy our heart of attending Heaven, the spirit world will take responsibility and guide us. If I cherish the Word and try to put it into practice with the heart of serving, God is bound to teach me and guide me in detail. The only thing you need to be careful of is that no matter what the situation, do not imitate others, do not complain, and do not feel like it is unfair even if you experience unjust things.
In our life of faith, the thing that is more important than anything else is our mindset. When have you experienced God guiding you? When you have a heart of filial piety that cherishes and attends Heaven, anyone can experience God guiding them.
When God looks at us, He looks at our mindset (the attitude of our heart). As long as we do not destroy our heart that always tries to attend Heaven vertically, the spirit world will take responsibility and guide us. In this way, the mindset of hyojeong can bring about amazing miracles.
If we just have a heart of Hyojeong, God will directly intervene. If we really try to attend God from the bottom of our hearts, the spirit world cannot help but assist us.
Therefore, each time we face horizontal circumstances, do not destroy the heart of Hyojeong towards the center, and no matter what the situation, do not imitate others, do not complain, and do not feel like it is unfair even if you experience unjust things.
In the Age of the Providence of Restoration, the Spirit World Guides you through Dreams
4. If anyone thinks that something is unfair, darkness enters their hearts. If you are moved by the Word and put it into practice, the spirit world will surely praise you, or you will bathe in clear water, or you will dream of being happy in a flower garden. If you are moved by the Word and rejoice, you will see yourself in a dream jumping and playing with joy with a liberated heart in a natural garden. Seeing dirty or muddy water in a dream or falling into a flood foreshadows that you will go the wrong way when you are persecuted by your opponent. Do you know how much the spirit world cares about us? They warn you through dreams fearing that you will be disappointed if you are suddenly persecuted.
5. The one who guides us before we face difficulties or great trials is the spirit world. And after we do good things, the spirit world cheers us up with joy. Giving praises such as 'You did well' or 'You used your beautiful heart well' is because the Holy Spirit who cooperates with us guides us. So, during the course of the providence of restoration, the spirit world appears and guides and testifies to many fallen people on the path of goodness. There was a time when a devout Christian believer cried and prayed, asking why the Lord of the Second Coming did not come to this earth. Then one day, in the spirit world, the spirits said to him, “Go and visit Cheongpa-dong” and “Go and visit Beomil-dong,” leading him to meet True Parents.
We usually live a good life of faith. However, when we face unfair things, we feel resentful towards the other person. Whether we did well or not, when we think something is unfair, darkness will enter our heart. In life of faith, when trials and tests come, we must overcome them well.
On the contrary, if we are moved by the Word and put it into practice, the spirit world will surely praise us, or we will bathe in clear water, or we will dream of being happy in a flower garden. Seeing dirty or muddy water in a dream or falling into a flood foreshadows that we might be shocked when we are persecuted by our opponent, so the spirit world shows us beforehand.
God always cares about each one of us, and through the spirit world, He shows us approaching things beforehand through dreams and guides us to have the right mindset.
The one who guides us before we face difficulties or great trials is the spirit world. And after we do good things, the spirit world cheers us up with joy.
Therefore, in our life of faith, brothers and sisters, we always need to practice a life of directly receiving guidance through the spirit world like this. When we live sincerely, God will definitely intervene and guide us.
Thank you very much, God Bless You.
(Living Testimony, Reverend Matt Goldberg Cheonshim Won 7 day Workshop Las Vegas).
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