Where is the boundary of Satan? We must be able to reanimate the people of this nation. In this way, we please God who is longing for his children who are lost. Our point of victory must be there.
This is similar to a rope in tug-a-war with you pulling the rope on this end and whoever is on the other side will be dragged toward the winning side. On one end, there are the presidents of major companies and famous political figures and behind them are thousands of people connected to them. You can wind the winch and those on the other side will be pulled toward you.
If you can win and pull a college dean or university president to your side, behind them will be even more top-level people pulled along. You must think as the Bible states that you are fisher of men that have cast anchors and hooks to grab hold of men and pull them toward heaven.
The most important thing in this struggle is to stay strong and never waver. This is where the boundary point of victory lies. It is right here in front of us. There are many who are so weak that they can be easily persuaded and compromise their value by the opposition.
When you are active, you seem to be strong, but at times you are defeated.
We all have hooks that the opposition knows about and pulls them in order to pull you in the wrong direction. Our innermost self compares our situation to those of our friends. If we are running forward on a mission and see one of our old friends and see that they are dressed nicely and have great success in a worldly way, we will in that moment lose courage to go forward as we look at our humble dress and lifestyle.
When you work hard at your mission witnessing in the streets or fundraising and doing many activities many people will say that it is no different from being a beggar. But Heaven knows. Before this work, you didn't dream about doing such things.
Wait until ten years later, and we will be far excelling those people. If we endure for ten more years, we will soar up and be conspicuous in the human scene, while other people will decline and be corrupted.
The fruit of the labor will be evident in the future.
In other words, even though it looks like working hard for God's providence may seem like you are defeated, but you will win the game. Along the way you may be screamed at, called many vile names and even be spit in the face, but you must endure. You must have the resolve in those moments that you will have success in 10 years and if not 10 years you will see success in 20 years. You can scream this out in your mind when you face such difficulty.
"I took every rebuff as a challenge and because of the opposition coming from those people I had more courage to fight against them and win over them. I would sometimes feel like retreating, but because of the enemy, because of the opposition, I could never retire. More than anything else, the vow I took before God is always with me. When I took my oath before God, He was confident I could do the job. I took the vow when I was at the zenith of my zeal and enthusiasm."
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Even though you know that God is there helping you out, you must be confident to think that without God's help you are going to carry out the mission. When you encounter hunger, think of a situation where you could be more hungry and then you can endure the hunger and continue on the path. When faced with these situations, you can look at those who are in a more poor condition than your own.
In face of any difficulties, you must be able to say, "Come what may, I can have my courage doubled and tripled in face of more difficulties. "
When your dignity is offended you must imagine a time when you were more offended and degraded. If you can realize a purpose in five years time where it took others 10 years, then you are determined to endure the double efforts. If you want to shorten the time period first imagined, then you must triple, and quadruple the effort to compensate for that time. You should be ready to do twice as many obstacles and encounter twice as tough situations if you are going to shorten the time.
Youth is a dynamic power.
If your friends, relatives, neighbors, and nation oppose you and are against you, you can cut them all off and do the divine job and fight.Set the goal that you can be triumphant to the point where God cannot not follow the difficult path. At every moment of our lives, the question where do you put that goal?
For instance, if you have to do your work at a certain time, but you determined to get up two hours early and you arrive an hour early, some would feel that while waiting they will doze off. If those people are situated where they have to fight through a fierce battle without sleep, it would mean defeat for them. This is the point that will determine your success or failure.
Victory means that you have more power over other people.
Every moment of our lives, where there's any event, you will determine for yourself whether you are going to be victorious or defeated.
Whenever there's a new event in your nation, you must be resolved to participate in it and win over other people, to be patient, and to be confident. You must throw away the old way of thinking: "Well, God is there, and if I pray hard, He will help me. "
God does not work in this way and it will not happen. You must make the effort to do your utmost best. When you work hard toward the goal, for the part that you cannot carry out, you can pray before God and then He will help you.
This is the way to pray before God when there is a difficult task. Resolve to accomplish the goal even if you might not be able to get adequate sleep. If you were to start getting sick, you can say that this was happening because you wished it, then the disease would be fearful of such a person and back away.
When you endure many sleepless nights, your brain may become brighter and brighter. Have the insight to pierce through the future and determine with your utmost as this is what most people do not do.
From this viewpoint, can you really be resolved to take responsibility for this nation? You must beat against the nation, until the nation resounds and echoes to the call. Stir up the nation so that you rouse the Christians. We are not talking about shooting your enemies with pistols.
Shoot the hearts of the people with love.
The question is, where is the boundary point of our victory?
If you are as confident as that, and if a man of that confidence and a woman of that confidence were to be marry, they would find perfect balance in their marriage. When you are blessed in holy matrimony you shouldn't think that your happiness as a family will be everything.
It is the woman's way of life to feel happy deep in her heart after actually making her husband happy first.
Your job is to make your spouse happier than you, without his or her being conscious of it.
After thinking of the husband's happiness first, then the wife can express her happiness. There was a married couple where the woman expressed her happiness everywhere and would even scream she was so happy. After awhile the husband grew to dislike her.
It is natural for a married woman to want to be well dressed and have the best jewelry because she is married, but before doing that, you should want your spouse to glitter and shine. This is the way a couple helps one another in a partnership.
Divine Principle ideology profess that when you are made a couple, you are one, and with the magnetic power of love created between the two, they can attract other families and end their disunity. This is the way to win more and more families to God's side.
The ideal couple will have such influence more not when they are living the luxurious life, wearing glittery clothing, eating the best foods or driving the best cars. The ideal couple that lives in poor conditions that experiences misery and many difficulties yet they still shine, other families will know that you have an ideal family life.
Your exemplary family should be like a lighthouse for those in the corrupted world where families are disunited. Your family must become the norm for corrupted families. Your family should become the norm for the secular family.
You must never complain about your spouse, saying, "Oh, she's an Oriental girl, she's shorter, she's not beautiful, she's not smart," because God chose her. However ugly he or she may be, whatever defects he or she may have, in God's eyes he or she has a certain place.
When one lives this type of life working hard for the mission moving from place to place, they will see that there are not too many places that are tidy and clean. By living in such ugly and dirty places, it is to one's advantage and practical to have an ugly spouse rather than a glamorous, tidy girl who might not like the place.
If there is disunity in the family, everything will be shattered into pieces and there is no way to influence other people. There is a saying "How can one rule the nation if they cannot keep their own household in order?".
Next comes the church as a whole. The Unification Church is a unified family with couples of various types and nationalities. If one thinks that it is easy to unite all the various couples, they are deceiving themselves.
You deal with different faces and different backgrounds. There is Oriental, Occidental, black, white and yellow where there are vast differences not only in culture but ideals. So, what is the secret to handle this group? Money, power? Is this an everlasting way to unity? Then what?
It is the power of True Love.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Victory for True Love
This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Boundary Point of Victory
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