Invest Your All

This is how God is: God invests everything into a being, and then that being experiences love. Then that explosive love will be returned back to the original Being who made all that investment. God created everything according to this principle.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon

During the process of creation, God gave His everything to man.  On the same accord, a man should want to give everything to a woman. In return, the woman will want to give everything back to the man, and then the man will give everything back to God.  

This is how everything is created.

When a husband and wife give and take in this lively way, then the two will come into complete unity and never separate.  This is the center of God's love.  That is the most ideal place the nucleus.  When a couple are truly in love and live in love, then God is living there, too.

This is the secret to being a true spouse the way God intended: Pour your love into your spouse and live for your spouse doing things for his/her sake day in and day out.  When he gets overly saturated in this love he may ask why you invest so much love into him and want to get away.

But if you continue to love him in this way despite his protests, he will turn around and return your love.  Love grows in this way.  This is the Principle of Creation.

What would be the true definition of a saint?

A saint is the one who goes ahead of other people in realizing, practicing and teaching this principle.  They have laid a foundation and expanded this realm of living for the sake of others.  This is all part of the law of creation.  

We must follow this course and we must love. We must emulate God's image and put all of our love into our families, into other people and into the nation.  

There is only one way for us to go: I, as an individual, must love my spouse and then bring all of society into oneness and later meet God. Then I will fall in love with God and jump into that love and live happily day by day.

When I really live for the sake of other people, the society, and the nation, love always comes back to me.  If we live in this way, this principle will go around and around and expand throughout the universe.

Anyone who is looking for love goes against the process of the law of creation.  You cannot find love.  You first invest yourself and pour your love into others.  Have you loved your spouse?  Love comes back to you as much as you have invested into the other.  When that happens, love starts coming back.

When Ownership Begins

This tradition of living for others and investing love first is being laid on earth for the first time.  The Messiah lives for this sake to leave this kind of tradition behind and lives consistently with the will of God.  He invests everything and spares nothing; he searches for ways to give out even more.  This is where true ownership begins.  After living in this manner, all things follow such a person.

Couples everyday tell each other that they love each other.

But that husband and wife may think they love each other, but once they disagree and the other gets offended, they start quarreling.  This is obviously not the true way and is not an example of love.

Love is when you want to put your whole life into the relationship until there is nothing left to put in.  Through this investment of self, love starts coming back.

The more we love, the more love and ownership will come to us. 

If spouses invested themselves for one another, is it possible for them to quarrel?

When this kind of life is practiced, we are guaranteed to be on the right path.  Even if we do not know where we are going, we are surely headed in the right direction.

How do you decide who is going to be the center of such a large family with many brothers, sisters, in-laws, uncles and aunts?  Just because one is the eldest, does this make them the center of that family?  What if they were truly mean to others and never practiced true love? 

The person who invests day in and day out the most into that family by giving everything he's got for the sake of the other family members without expecting anything in return is the center of the family.  This is how you predict who is going to be the center of the household and the true owner of everything.  

We naturally know that we are supposed to love the world, but this sentiment is too vague.  We must truly put our life into what we are doing just as God did for us.  This way, all things belong to us.  If you want to own everything with love then give, give all you have. This is our credo.

Don't say, "Where is love?".  Don't say, "My husband must love me", or "I expect love from my wife". If you do, peace and love can never be realized within your family. 

There is no love until we put our love in. 

Put in everything you have, then your investment will return as love towards you. How wonderful that is!

This is an amazing truth that can transform today's loveless society.  We should love in this way from the individual level all the way to the national level and we will see change.  Those searching for love, should put in everything they have and then they will see their investment returned as love.

If you want to be a true mother or father, you have to honestly ask yourself, how much have you loved your children in the righteous, heavenly way.

When a child is absolutely loved by their parents, they will never want to leave even if they are being scolded.

When you give out your love and everything comes back to you and wants to be owned by you, then you can truly live happily.  This is the ideal way of life.

God loves us, but we have to love God too. 

Since all things belong to God, if we love Him, wouldn't all things also belong to us? The only way to own anything in the universe is only through loving God.  This is when we become the true owner of things.

Your Own Mind Knows

Humanity should go this way.  How will we know that we have invested everything?  Your own mind will tell you before anything else whether you have given 100 percent or not.  Here on earth, people can cover their actions and intentions behind every deed, but in the spirit world you cannot pretend.  

Everything is in the open and will be revealed.  The ideal way to live is to daily live for the sake of others.  There is no other way to reach the ideal.  The amazing reality is that God even tries to love even Satan.

Do we have such a standard of living?

"Everyday I am so excited that I hate it when one day ends; I can't wait until the next day dawns. That kind of excitement is the ideal way. Unless and until we put everything we have into what we are doing, we cannot realize true joy. Just put in more and more every day without thinking what will be returned, then you will always have more and more -- never less. I have always followed this formula.

At the last moment you may feel you have done enough. Then insist on putting in one more bit of effort. That one step makes all the difference.

When love owns you, you can't oppose it.  You have to belong to somebody. 

How can you object to belonging to someone who truly loves you? Do you think I'm a happy person? Why do you think so? Because I know that in the future, even Satan, even the communists, will not be able to oppose me. How can they oppose me when I love them?"

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

What is the will of God? It is to fulfill the ideal of creation, which is to form a four-position foundation of the husband/wife/children centered on God and live for the sake of others. Then all the love ownership comes back to God.

The person who has done this will have lived the will of God. Such a couple will be an ideal family and live happily ever after. This is the nucleus through which the whole world can be connected. The world is an extension of such a family.
  

What is the ideal life?

The ideal life is putting everything you have into the ideal.  If we live this way, we can go anywhere and be welcomed and no country will oppose this way of life.  This is the will of God.  If we each live this ideal way of life, wouldn't the world turn into the ideal world?

The secular world has an opposing philosophy: I want to be loved.  

I will take whatever I can get.  This type of philosophy does not allow a world of unity and peace. God's formula is to live for other's sake.  If we live in this way, the world automatically comes into unity.
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We can say the world will automatically come into unity because God lives that way.  When we live in this way, our unity becomes broader and broader.  There is no other way for a unified world, no other secret besides this.

Now, we see the ideal world is at hand.

Do you think that the ideal world will come if you just sit back and wait for it to come thinking, "I'd like to sit in that kind of world and go to heaven when I die?".  This type of thinking is the same thinking of a thief.  A thief doesn't work and takes everything he has.

Because of the foundation of the Messiah you are able to participate in Gods heavenly world on earth.

Faith without works is dead.  Just sitting and believing that God will work is not enough.  He gave us 5% of 100% to fulfill our portion of responsibility.  It is our choice to do His will or not.  If we do not do enough before God, our conscience will not permit us to stand before God.

We should not be in the position to be ashamed of ourselves before God.  We should live always conscious of the fact that I should not live a life that I would be ashamed of.

The real situation is that every human needs salvation.

We are saved by dignity, not by shame. This way of life, we may not be able to eat what we like, say what we like, do the things we like so there is a possibility that we will not be ashamed of our actions.

How can we be complacent as our brothers and sisters at this very moment are losing their lives at the hands of Satan?  His ultimate goal is to destroy humanity and pull them as far away from God as possible.

You should not be just members or followers of the truth just borrowing the true way of thinking or life.  You must make it as your own and be proud of the concept and actually live this true way of life and become true descendants.  These are not just words, it is actions.

Do you understand clearly? Now we know how we will achieve salvation; how we can be saved with
dignity, without shame. 

We are all individual messiahs of love.   Plant love and you will never perish.

You may suffer in giving out your love, but you will never perish in this way of life and will never be ashamed.  By practicing true love, true love will come back to you with ownership.  This is a reality.  

Do you understand? Those who say, "Father, I understand deeply now and I will live the way of love," raise your hands as a pledge to do your best to fulfill this.".


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This post was taken and rewritten from a speech given by the Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon based on the Divine Principle teachings which are centered on the history of the Bible.