Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The purpose of creation is God's ideal and you should be teaching the people God's ideal by your action.
God always had His true ideal for creation since the beginning, but man fell away from this ideal of God. Now we are living in the age of recreating it.
When we teach the ideal way of living and world, then we can recreate other people.
When the ideal is complete, you can claim your share of the credit before God. As co-creator, you can insist God bring you everywhere He goes and He will have to agree.
This is how we truly claim sonship and daughtership of God. Are you satisfied with just adopted son and daughter after the fall? If you are not content with this relationship status, then you must work harder than the son to qualify as His true daughter.
When you look through the Bible, you can surmise that Jesus really only taught a few points.
You might think it is nice to have the ideal world, but you may dislike the activity which is involved. Would you move quietly or with a loud bang?
When a steam locomotive whizzes through town, everybody cannot help but hear it. Would you move slow or swiftly. When you move fast you cannot help but make noise.
Also, though it becomes danger and someone is bound to say slow down, but others will say there is no other way to get something done in this country, so those people will follow you. Then the youth will be encouraged to move faster than you. This is the way it ought to be.
We really have to move ahead, not thinking so much of peripheral things.
First, we must get the work done.
When God investigates the earth, He would see if you were moving faster than Jesus did 2,000 years ago and doing more. God would be fascinated by such people.
Until now, without such people, God has only been hearing prayers and request from people who never took such action. God is plugging His ears to such selfish prayers.
God has heard many people talking, but not seen them doing true work of restoring the world. When He looks out and observes the world and He see that someone is moving really fast, His eyes will pop open and He will take notice.
Moonies don't spend that much time praying to find out what their next move is, because they already know, therefore, they are constantly on the move.
When God looks at them, He will be inspired to unplug His ears and to listen to such urgent prayers.
When you prove that you really run, God will be on the alert to listen to your sincere prayer.
Although you are moving quickly now, will you be successful or not in the end?
God has heard many sincere prayers, but every one of them failed.
If you were God, would you have such unreserved confidence for a new group to succeed where everyone else has failed?
God has had many hopes in the past and his saints have failed in fully completing their mission of restoring the world.
You must determine to think that you will never disappoint God, and do much to gain His attention.
You can tell God that He can unplug His ears and open His eyes, because you will make it and win victory for His cause.
We have to give God that confidence. Wouldn't those in spirit world want to help you out when they see you working hard in this manner for the public purpose?
You have promised so many things in the past, and are confident right now to finish the job, but soon you revert back to your old thinking and ways, wouldn't you?
Of course everyone has their ups and downs, but the ups should be higher than ever before and your lows should not be as low as before.
When you first joined you were full of enthusiasm and hope, but when someone hurts you doesn't your enthusiasm dwindle a little? By the time they hit you, don't you yell at them no matter how religious you are?
Because we have a sinful, fallen nature, you are bound to respond in a fallen manner.
If you never experience such behavior, then you are a saint and have no need of God or for religious teachings anymore. But, don't you need these teachings to a certain extent?
Even people who were so determined to follow this path that they wrote a pledge in their own blood, fell away when their expectations were not met.
For instance, when it came time to be matched with a spouse in the church, they did not care so much for that person and may hope the person die so they could chose another.
You must learn first to fight against the untrustworthy self which is inside.
Especially young beautiful people who worry about their figure.
A good figure could be your worst enemy. Satan loves this kind of behavior and will keep dwelling in such things. That is really true, but our society is unaware of how this works.
Especially beautiful young people worry about working too hard and spoiling their figure and Satan will keep dwelling on these things. That is really true. That is absolutely true!
Even having a great talent or a degree from a school can be as hooks to reel you away from God.
Within each of us, there are many obstacles which we have to overcome to come closer to God.
One rule helps: forget yourself.
Any concept of our own thinking will only hinder God's will. We have to go along with His ideal. We have to be able to digest any kind of personality we meet.
You will prosper if you can digest any kind of person and situation that can be seen as a barrier.
God supports such a mind; when God pays attention to what you do, then you can only prosper.
Centering on your mind, the fallen body can be digested.
Once you can say that your mind and body are one, you can say you have a God-centered personality and God will stay with you.
When you finally have unity of your good mind directing your body, then you can say that you have a God-centered personality and then God can stay with you. Then other kinds of unity will come easily and will be possible centering around you.
Unless we have unity of our mind and body, there is no hope for anything greater.
Before we can talk about conquering the world, we need to first conquer the war within ourselves.
We can observe, digest and make unity even though some tasks will be incredibly difficult.
These things go hand and hand for prosperous people.
If we don't seriously overcome these situation, dreadful things will happen.
A racial war can erupt and a whole race can be wiped out. But if a strong group can offer a solution to humanity's problems, then God would have to support that group.
The master of all things will be the first person to observe the situation, digest it and make unity.
Before unity can come, we must first observe and digest the matter. We have to see both sides and understand this.
There are two ways to obtain unity: first, you have a clear understanding and clearly teach someone, you are observing and digesting them. Second, if your thinking is clear, you can serve him and later be accepted by him.
When you are finally recognized as being better than others, people will start to follow you. This is the main reason Jesus taught to serve and sacrifice for others. By doing this, you do not go down, but you become the subject instead of the object.
In obedience, service and sacrifice, you will become subject of all things and be on the rise all the time.
But this teaching of service and sacrifice isn't enough to bring world peace.
Before, we could only serve and sacrifice, but if you teach someone the truth and yet they do not follow, you can show them through action.
Better yet, if he doesn't accept the truth then you are able to serve and sacrifice. This is the Principle.
You want to prosper, but there is no other way to rise other than uniting into one.
So, how do you attain unity?
Through observing and digesting.
Sometimes bitterness is felt before something is digested and then indigestion follows. Then you try again. Before you can develop, you have to have unity, so we should be desperate to find unity in this work.
Adam and Eve fell when they did not observe and digest the situation.
We are each in a similar situation today as we are on the verge of being restored to God's ideal position from our fallen selves.
Just because someone opposes you, do you have to oppose him? You must digest any problems this person presents. When you can overcome that type of person, this is when the complete foundation of your true personality is being laid.
When you witness and knock on the door, you may be persecuted, but that time comes after you knock and they open the door so don't worry about knocking.
The people might welcome you into their home and invite you to dinner, or they may have had spiritual messages from spirit world about your coming. If you are afraid to knock on the door, then knock with your feet.
Even the best people in any area experience all of these emotions, too, not just people who have difficulty in their mission.
When you train yourself in fund raising you can think of your fist as a flower. When you train yourself this way then when you have real flowers you will do very well when you sell flowers as a fundraising campaign..
This is how we develop.
When we are presented with an ideal that is great and too high, it is more difficult to digest.
You will have to open you mouth wide to digest and you may die. But at least it is better than dying and never having swallowed a difficult situation.
The world of men is unknown to the women and they cannot hope to understand it, so as brides, they should just obey. On the same matter, if black and whites can digest each other, America will really prosper.
By making unity in this difficult situation you develop; love comes with unity and prosperity will follow
People wonder why uniting is necessary. Why can't each race unite separately and report to God? God is not this way. God will only give his approval when whites can say that they love blacks and Asians.
If there is a group that can make this kind of unity, He will dwell with this group. This church would be eternal in His sight.
If you don't become one then you will perish.
God wants to bring everything into unity, while Satan wants you to think only of yourself. A person who cannot observe and digest other people, they cannot go beyond the starting point, but will stay in one place and decline from there.
We should know clearly that our number one mission is to unify; before we can do this, we must observe and digest. This law applies on every level of family, society, nation and world.
You should become this type of character and become subject of the whole world, being appreciated by God and respected by all mankind. This is done through your foundation of witnessing 360 homes in your area.
Would you do this kind of work with intensity or slowly and gradually over the years? This is a simple principle that applies at every level and by applying it you will do your mission.
When the brain gives a direction to the foot or hand, the rest of the body focuses there.
If the hands are the first to digest the situation then the rest of the body will focus on them. The first one to achieve that unity will be the subject of everyone else.
This person will meet God and God's love sooner than others. Because we are the pioneers to meet God first we go this difficult path.
If it is raining when you have to do your mission, it should not matter. You must observe the rainy situation and digest it. How much encouragement and consolation can you find in this kind of thinking!
You become subject of all mankind who can work in this kind of weather, then working in rainy weather becomes very nice.
If you don't have enough clothes to wear throughout the week, then you digest this situation and feel the same as if you had nice things.
When you have less food, instead of complaining you can handle the situation.
When you can practice this all the time, you will bring unity in a wide area. Then you will receive a reward from God. What a sight it would be to see white people cry as they see black people off on their trip, missing them.
Also, it would be beautiful to see black people missing white brothers and sisters.
God's attention could not draw anywhere else but this dramatic scene. All of His attention, would focus there, hoping it would last.
Depending on how much we can observe and digest difficult situations, we can attain much unity.
When the day comes on earth when we experience happiness and God can rest for the first time, mankind will experience true happiness.
Are we able to do this? Let us pray.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: God is God for a Reason
This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Way of Prosperity and Defeat
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