Is love like a commander who calls others to come to his side while he just stand there and give directions?
Love is the positive power to influence other people without your having to say anything to them
Any influential movement or new ideology does not motivate people with position, power or knowledge. It may make people interested in the beginning, but there is some other power there that motivates them.
Our motto in the Unification movement is "To have Father's heart, go forth in a servant's shoes, and to shed tears for all mankind, blood for Heaven, and sweat for Earth".
What does that really mean?
This is the place where others sacrifice themselves for the sake of other people and erect the world of God's will. The will is to build the Heavenly Kingdom on Earth as citizens to spread Heaven's blessings to others.
"To sacrifice yourself" can be explained in three key points:
You must work more than anyone else. When you eat and wear clothes, you must use humbler things than others. And when it comes to shelter, you must live in a more humble place than anyone else. When you behave in this way, no one will complain against you.
You will then be able to have a heart-to-heart in oneness with others as they come to you. Other people around you will see that you live in such a low place and will want you to live in a better place, wear better clothes and have better things.
"In our movement, many races and many nationalities are being melted together into strong oneness. If we are successful in this it means that we are going to be successful in making the world like that. The boundary point of our success or victory is the church.
If you have created oneness between your mind and body on the individual level, and husband and wife have unity on the family level, and then we make unity on the church level, and societal, national, and world-wide levels, there will be no human being on the face of the Earth who would object to our movement. If you can play the role of a central figure in our church, you are going to be one in society."
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
After you accomplish this, you can influence the nation. In the movement, the first three stages of individual, family and church are important. You have to make these three stage into one in order to be successful in the mission. If a family consist of two different religions, it will be difficult for them to unite. Either one of them must give in to the other in order to have one faith in the family.
The Unification Church would have more people interested if the members are strongly united into one. A black member should feel they represent all the black race on Earth. A white member must think he represents the whole race of whites and the yellow think they represent the whole yellow race.
You must think that our church is the extended form of Adam's family: Adam and Eve and their three children and their spouses, eight. Noah's family also had eight members. In Noah's family, Shem represented the yellow race, Ham represented the black race, and Japheth represented the white race. It is in accordance with the Principle that the third son was more blessed than the others. But it was not for the sake of the third son alone that God blessed him.
God blessed the third one not for his own sake, but for the sake of the two other sons. Therefore, he was in the position to help his two brothers. Likewise, people of the white race will lose the blessing if they forget their mission of helping underprivileged people or other races. To return to God, you must be reconciled with other races. After being united into one, you can go back to God.
Adam and Eve went against God's will when they fell. In Adam's family, Cain and Abel failed God's will when they were not able to reunite. Also in Noah's family when the brothers were not united they went against God's will. During the course of restoration, members must become one with other races and brothers and sisters in the group.
The best team for a mission will comprise different races united into one. God would gladly accept such a beautiful team of brothers and sisters. He would abide with them and would be able to erect the Kingdom of God through such unity.
If God exists at all, he would want the whole world like this full of families of all races which are united into one. In the United States, there are all races of people and nationalities. With this kind of foundation, all problems can be solved. The problem of God, the relationship between God and Satan, and the problem of brotherhood and the modern way of family life.
This one goal is what all the past saints and martyrs struggled hard to realize. In our age it is possible for unity.
There will be many obstacles and difficulties ahead that must be overcome.
There is a secret to overcoming the situation: first, understand each other; secondly, be patient until the goal is obtained. Husband and wife at the core of the family life are united into one despite encountering many obstacles and difficulties. This symbolizes that it is possible to unite the whole clan, society, nation and world. Your efforts should be on concentrating on making your home unified with a beautiful stronghold of unity in love.
The Communist strategy is like Satan's. The goal is to cause disunity in the nation with fights among black and white people. They use the dialectic method to prove that capitalistic society will collapse.
We prove to them that the world of love is possible, because in the movement, all the races and nationalities are united into one which is expanding to the worldwide scale.
The Communist society uses an ideology where there is always a constant struggle as long as there is a distinction of class of people. The Godly ideology does not differentiate between the classes or races - only the relationship of parents and children and there will not be any discrimination between parents and children.
The ideology that will be able to fight against Communism atheist views is the concept of one huge family under God as our Parent. The Communist will not be able to shatter that philosophy because it is already united into one with divine love as its binding force.
Before you see yourselves as being black, whites and yellows, you see yourselves as brothers and sisters under one Parent.
This ideology will become the norm recreating the Christian society. By expanding the movement, this ideology will influence people in every field of life and before long, people will envy it and be interested in the movement. If they are influenced and practice this type of ideology, this foundation will expand and change the whole world.
Let us come to the conclusion now. Can we be victors on the individual level? Can we establish the norm on the family level? Can we establish it on the church level? Can we establish it and be recognized by the people on the societal level?
If so, you are going to be recognized by the people of the whole world, and by God too.
Starting on the individual level to the level of family, nation and world, those who are resolved to finish the job without wasting a moment, that is the point where they become victors at every turn.
At every moment you must be thinking of the salvation of the whole world.
It is more difficult to have a victory of this kind on the family level than it was on the individual level because the whole family must be united. It is more difficult to have such victories on the church level than on the family level as well as on the societal level is harder than the church level. Yet, you must not be contented and stop at any of these levels. Satan will test you on the individual level first, then on the family level, the church level, and the societal level.
Could you stand on your own on the individual level and take responsibility for the nation of America? What about the family level? It is not as easy as it sounds. In order to succeed on the family level, you would have to double or triple your effort.
In order to remake this society and recreate the nation, you must be first successful on the family level and expand that foundation. Before success on the family level, you must make yourself a success on the individual level.
You must always remember that from moment to moment we are always on the battlefield on this providential frontline. We are always on the battlefield. Every motion, expression and utterance every moment of our lives is the boundary point of our victory. We are a husband and wife ready for the battle in the unit of our family; our church is ready for the battle, our nation is ready for the battle, until we win the whole world.
To have victory in battle, we must first be united into one.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: In Service to Others
This post was rewritten from the speech The Boundary Point of Victory.
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