What can truly unite a common people even in these days of such division including the church?
What do we need in order to unify the church? Some would say, "You need unified principles." But unified principles would be useless without feelings of emotion.
This is the issue.
Any religious group can try to unite based on coming together with the same ideas and united principle, but they need feelings of love for one another to truly unite. They must feel such demanding feelings that one cannot live without the other and must see each other in order for them to unite.
Jesus tells a story to illustrate this point:
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Luke 10:30-34
After he tells this story, Jesus asks, which of these people was the neighbor to the man who was beaten by robbers. The answer was clear and he said for others to do the same as the Samaritan.
Imagine two people who are calling each other names in order to tear the other down in order to show who is the best of the two. Their egos will not let them see the other person as equals. How can these two unite? Can a mother and father compete over who is better than the other and still unite?
Love grows with time.
The solution for unity is mutual love.
Few couples love each other from the very start. Love can began from pity or from preference. A woman can meet a stubborn man and think that he is unlovable, but she can take pity on him because she sees the obstacles he must face because of his stubborn attitude.
When this pity transforms into love, then the man seeks solace in the woman. That's how it works. The woman might find the man's attitude as an advantage because she herself does not have a stubborn attitude and turns it into a mutual advantage.
Thus, love blooms in affection as well as in pity and eventually this leads to unity of a couple. If one has a strong enough pity for the other person, it can naturally find a way to unity.
Wouldn't a parent after spanking a child out of anger regret doing so immediately? The effect would exactly be the opposite if the parent shed tears and showed love for the child instead.
Don't you think?
Spanking is not effective. If instead the mother or father controls their anger toward their children they will triumph over their children and have control over them. An older brother that has hate toward his brother can be brought to submission in this way.
It's possible isn't it to unite in this way? With such feelings, yes it is possible. We must exhibit this kind of heart.
There is no happiness where there is no unity. When we say, "unity comes, or unity is possible," we mean unity with love as its substance.
Once in this frame of mind, we can forgive all their human faults
You must understand that forgiveness leads to unity.
When you begin with this mind set, you can forgive all their human faults. If God still thought of us as sinners, would He have been able to forgive us all our sins time and time again?
God can forgive us because He looks at us with a forgiving mind to love us beyond our faults.
Do you understand that nothing is possible without this feeling of love?
What kind of world would this be without friendship, love for the country, love between parents and children, or love among siblings? Would unity be possible in that type of environment?
Is it possible to have happiness without love being present?
The only way to bring the Principles ideas to fruition, we must have love. Through pupils shedding tears of love for teachers, teachers for pupils, children for parents, sisters for sisters, brothers for brothers, siblings for siblings and tribes for tribes.
If you were to pass away tomorrow without accomplishing this kind of standard of love you would die in regret. Unity demands this standard. This is not just The Divine Principle teachings for our path toward righteousness but God's. We must undertake this mission.
Why do we seek unity through love's foundation?
Because everything is temporary without the glue of love because love makes everything eternal. Does the wife stop loving her husband because he passed away? No, her love for her husband burns even more strongly after her husband's death.
We must think where unity will come into being. We always think that it happens at will, but we must have love connections at the foundation of unity.
There is no unity without love connections. These connections are honored and obeyed mutually. Isn't this right? With such a connection of love, one recognizes the other, which is returned in mutual recognition.
At this foundation, there must be a mutually-recognized goal which will make unity possible. Unity does not work based on two different goals. The goal must be one and will become one if love is mutually given.
All is United Upon Contact with True Love
When we are in contact with true love, the cells of our minds and the cells of our body respond in unison. Through this unison, the differences are ironed out and produces harmony in all parts and move together in the same direction. This is how unity occurs.
Then through this center point that unites the man and woman on a horizontal line to God's vertical line, all things operate. Outside of this Principle, nothing works properly.
This is the eternal equation. This principle operates in this way in all movements, all beings, all cell structures, and united ideals and paths. When we see this absolute standard, we can see why it is so hard to relate to one another and bring about unity in an eternal stance.
Viewed with love, there is nothing that is not directly connected to each of us personally.
Men and women then become united horizontally and stand on the vertical line as God intended.
Why do we value the five senses and what are their basic functions?
The five senses main purpose is to follow love and only love. When the senses follows love, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue all become one with feeling. The whole will become one. The eyes will search back and forth in pursuit of love and the nose follows love, also.
"All my soul and flesh, all my living organs follow this principle. All plants seem to react in their various ways when the morning sun shines, on them, but they all follow the principle because such is the essence of life.
We speak of God's love freely as if we understand it: do we really? Do you know how strong His love is? You've seen gristle on chicken legs that stretches when you pull on it.
What is love, then?
Love is like that gristle that is strong when pulled. When love pulls on it, when God's love pulls on it, the whole world follows. Do you understand what I am saying?
When possessed by love, the eyes become one, the nose becomes one, hands become one, the focus becomes sharpened, all unite into one. Perfectly one. So, we say, "perfectly done!" and all the cells echo "perfectly done!" This is possible, don't you know?" SMM
All things of creation follows wherever love dictates, hangs onto and wants to be possessed by love.
Once cells feel the taste of love, they want to dance. The whole universe dances in celebration when it witnesses love. When we rejoice because of true love, the whole universe rejoices with us. When we laugh taking in God's abundant love, the universe laughs in unison.
It is the same as the echoes of a mountain. When we shout, "Yoo-hoo!" it echoes back exactly, "Yoo-hoo!". You're eyes will be open like never before - it is indescribable. You and I were created to receive that kind of love.
A man and woman in love can move the whole universe with their breath. Just like the ocean waves moved by the moon's pull, your love's "yoo-hoo" will be replied to by many "yoo-hoos" from all over.
Don't you want to discover this? Follow the formula for unity with love as its foundation.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Language of Love
This text was rewritten and taken from the Textbook"Way Of Unification" Written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
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