When a young couple feel the rush of their first love, their whole bodies concentrate on this, day and night.
This should not be the high point of their love experience. It is easy for a couple to get lost in the romance, but the intensity of their love should become even greater over time
Have you experienced such a total concentration of love?
How is it possible to get 100 percent concentration of God's love? God wants to come to you and touch every part of you.
When you possess love, then everything sparkles with love once God comes to touch you. So far, no one has been able to place all their five senses into that genuine love, therefore, we are making a new history.
All five senses were created to be intoxicated in love, thus you become a total chunk of love.
God sees such delicious love, He swallows the whole thing without peeling it. Even though God is very hygiene-oriented, whenever He sees love, He would not stop to wipe anything clean; He would just swallow it.
When are the five senses able to unite through love? When you are intoxicated in true love, then with that love you are able to love your husband or wife, your children, neighbors, and nation.
This is the perfection of man which God sought in the beginning of creation.
Where can we find such love today?
The heavenly order of loving God first, then love between man and woman who then love humanity and creation, has been destroyed by the fallen world. They don't like the heavenly principle and resists its restrictions.
People often misuse the freedoms in this country. Therefore, love also has become perverted.
Is it really freedom if one just lives only for themselves?
Freedom can only blossom as true freedom through the discipline of heavenly principle.
Maybe men and women go to the club for the evening.
It will be all right for the husband to dance with one of the girls if his wife is there, since then nothing is hidden. But if a man goes there deceiving his wife while leaving her at home, then doing an unprincipled act with another woman, that is totally wrong.
In love, there must be strict discipline, a strict principle to follow.
After the presidential inauguration there were several inaugural balls. Many men and women were dancing and socializing. How many of them were thinking about the true order of love? In many cases, such events help to split up families.
Celebrating in dance is beautiful. I have nothing against it, but it should come under the Principle. Otherwise, such things can be destructive to homes and society.
It is truly beautiful to witness a husband and wife going out together and rejoicing while they dance and love one another. If a wife introduces another woman to her husband and then they dance this is fine if it is not initiated by the husband.
However, most times, the man will disregard his wife and look for another sexy woman to dance with or be with. This is not principled.
God is the master of Principle and He dwells in love.
Love blossoms through the Principle way. Therefore, when a man and woman marries within the Principled realm, they are building a principled foundation upon which true love can blossom. This love must be public-minded and unselfish.
Why?
Because no one is able to possess love. Love is activated only when there is an object which it can relate. So, without an object, love is impossible. Even God must obey this law.
Love needs an object in all four directions.
The object completes a circuit that can channel love to you. In order to receive love, you have to activate it by giving love. Once you are able to love and serve someone or something, that love will return to you. Selfish love dictates, "You must love me. I am here to receive love."
Satan works in this way. He works through selfish love. That kind of love always drags you down like an anchor. In most cases in America, women marry because they want the man to love and serve them. The women are ready to receive love once they marry.
This thinking is wrong and should change. You should think, "I want to marry so I can have an object to give my fervent love to."
No matter how big and strong a man is, he will be melted by true love.
Your giving love will melt him.
Unfortunately, American women are often good about speaking about their love, but are not good at showing it.
Love is an action and deed.
A good woman acts out her love and speaks praise with her mouth. That's the way it is supposed to be. If there is love, if it is not public-minded, then it is destructive love.
Which do you think should be more important to a couple?
A savings account or their love?
In homes today, there are two savings account, one for the husband and one for the wife. If one was to borrow from the other, they would even write a receipt! If the son asks for money, he would have to pay back with interest.
Is love cheaper than a paper or a piece of money?
When a husband and wife are truly in love, they are one body. When your whole body becomes sacrificial, a bank account is nothing. The husband's money is the wife's money, and the wife's money is his money.
God's love dwells in the public place, in the public-minded person.
The Church promotes the public minded action and love.
When you fundraise, this is with a public mind and is a public deed which you do for the sake of America and mankind. At the end of the day, you do not even save a penny for yourself, but give it as an offering for the restoration of the world.
Through your blood, sweat and tears, you are able to restore that money from the world and the people by offering it back to God and His will.
You want to set this tradition that we live our entire lives for the public purpose. What reward do you get for doing this?
Your reward is receiving God's love which is the public love.
People stand back from this public-minded living because they believe that they will lose everything including their sense of self.
Actually, by sacrificing your carnal desires, you get no better deal than this because you gain everything. Everyone thinks the one who lives such a life for others is a loser, but we are not at all.
Through practicing it, you have become more and more prosperous and closer to the center of love, God. We know there are many well-educated, good-looking people who come from good families. In comparison, we look like lowly merchants who do not have anything.
Yes, by the worldly standard, they appear to be far better than Father, but once they determine to stop their worldly ways and go this true way of life, they try to live up to this standard.
Once you are able to practice this public-minded love, you get a taste of real love. If you need proof, then leave the religious way of life and then compare what you get in the world with the life of a true person of faith.
Then when you look back at all of the experiences you had in witnessing and touching other's life and bringing them to God's true love, then you will really know what an exciting and rewarding life you have been living.
I have a pretty sharp mind. Do you think I have not thought of this point? By living with public-minded love you gain everything, including the love of God. I will be practicing this the rest of my life. When money comes to me, I don't think about putting it into my children's bank account. I want to spend it for the public purpose. I even want to borrow as much money as possible in my lifetime to spend for the public purpose. If you know my attitude, then when I tell you to raise funds, no one will complain. Instead, everyone will respond, "You can depend on us."
This true way of life is just and righteous for the past, present and the future. When you live in this principled way, even though your circumstances seems meager, you feel good.
You are not able to explain it, but your conscience is clear and you are able to sleep well at night without any worries.
The difference is, this is a public-minded place.
We pursue public-minded love because that is where God comes to dwell.
If we want to attract God to us, we have to live in a public-minded lifestyle
Once a former Harvard professor came to hear Father at East Garden. He told father that he was the first professor to join such a movement and asked what he should do for God's dispensation.
Father answered him, "I'll tell you. You can go out into the world, get persecuted, cursed and and give out your life for the dying world." Without reservation Father sends out members in this manner to suffer.
This is the Principle way of life.
Such a professor with a glorious track record may have been looking for praise and a complement instead. This is the heavenly declaration: to go out and receive persecution, be condemned and live for the sake of the world.
This principle is the same for the President and prestigious professor. Father would give the same answer if the President of the United States asked the same question.
The tombs of those who had died for the sake for God and mankind would never be dry. Generations of people to come will lay flowers and shed tears there in their honor.
God loves not just America, but the whole world.
He is experiencing many problems that only people of faith can solve. A faithful person can go to God and tell Him that they will take on the worst problem and solve it for Him.
Right now, God's greatest headache is communism.
The other problem is the decline in the true Christian spirit. We are to go out in the world and revive this once thriving Christianity.
Another great headache for God is the moral decline around the world, in particular the young people.
So, we must go out to the world and assure God that you will take away His headache by restoring the young people.
Americans have become individualistic and have become selfish. You should become a good example by serving the world, suffering for the sake of others. Because you have dedicated your life for this cause foregoing the secular way of materialism, you are told that you are brainwashed.
How should you reply?
You can reply, "We are the new breed of people who hate injustice."
No one wants to suffer, that is human nature.
But you are asked to go down into suffering. Do you think the Messiah has an easy task to fulfill of world restoration? We would soon to believe that the Messiah returns and at the snap of the finger restore the world to a peaceful and beautiful existence.
The reality is, it is far more difficult for him, than for the person who gets his instruction.
Many people think that the Principle is wonderful, but they want to go about it in the American way. This idea is rejected. By following the principle order in an American way, then we become part of the declining America and then God would say goodbye. There would be nothing left to work with.
The third principle we must practice is sacrifice. Why is this so when no one naturally sacrifices oneself for the whole after the fall?
The love of God dwells with you when you sacrifice.
Sacrifice with love; give yourself to others with love; then you shall win everything there is.
When we look at Jesus' situation from just a human viewpoint, he looked miserable and defeated.
Jesus was pounded to a cross, ridiculed by soldiers, yet, the same Jesus was able to eventually conquer the world because he sacrificed with love.
Even though there are more people who have a more miserable death than Jesus, their death was not able to bring anyone to salvation before God. This is because they died for their own individual cause, or for their own crime.
Plus, Jesus had grown to a perfected being without sin, and through his death, he died for the sake of the world, with love. That is what true sacrifice is. That love has the power to conquer the world. When you are conquered by this love, you don't mind that conquest. When you become a prisoner of true love, you sing and dance.
These are the three principles that are points that a noble religious teaching always emphasizes.
One: You should follow the heavenly Principle.
Two: You should be public-minded.
Three: You should be sacrificed.
This is because that is where God comes to dwell. That is the only way you attract the infinite love of God.
Through the fall we severed our connection to God.
As fallen human beings, it was not natural for the pure, perfect God to embrace and love the children of sin. Through our suffering and repentful spirit, God is willing to forgive and love us as his adopted children.
You are bound by your own will. There is no need for someone to look over your shoulders and check to see if you are doing it or not.
My life was so hard many times that I wanted to quit, but I couldn't. No one else forced me to go on, but I kept going because I had tasted the love of God. When you experience the deeper love of God, you can't for one moment go away from it. In a way, I miss the vicious persecution and life in the communist prison because there I tasted the love of God the most.
Within God's love, nothing is impossible.
Because of this love, God was able to endure and be patient through the thousands of years since the fall. He was able to be patient after many saints and people were martyred, persecuted and suffered to bring about this world of peace.
You would want to experience this total overwhelming love don't you?
If you are able to practice the sacrificial way of life, then you become the central person in your home.
First, become Principle-minded.
That means that you respect your parents because they are your parents. This is the Principle. Be sacrificial for the sake of the whole household. Then the family will naturally want you in that position.
Whoever can truly put this to practice for the nation, they shall become the leader and master of the nation. The same Principle applies to America and to the world.
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