We are the Fruit of God's Love

God and human beings are related as parent and child, but how did this relationship come to be?

Where did the parent-child relationship between God and human beings begin?  If you were to meditate and ask what is the center of the universe, the answer would be the parent-child relationship.

If you ask God, "What is the center of heaven and earth? What is the root of the universe?" God would answer that it is the relationship between the father, his sons and daughters, the parent-child relationship.

This is more important than any other relationship.

One who doesn't understand the depth of this answer will think this refers to the relationship between a physical father and mother and their children.  We are speaking about the basic relationship with God.

God created human beings because being alone brings no stimulation. 

Joy comes through a relationship.

Even when God is alone, He cannot receive the stimulation of joy without a partner.  Thus, the purpose behind creation.

When we are in the position of God's partner, we receive the highest love.  Then God's internal becomes substantial through His partner.

If God is sorrowful, humankind will inevitably be sorrowful.  This is why humanity's relationship with God cannot be severed.

This is the conclusion.

What is so special about the parent-child relationship?

It is the highest place where father and son can meet at the central point where their love, life and ideals connect.  Then, love, life and ideals are in one place.

There, God is love, and so are we.  God is life and so are we.  God's ideals are our ideals.  The first place where these qualities can be established is in the parent-child relationship.

When God gives us love, how much would He want to give?  God's love does not have a set limit.  He would want to give to humanity infinitely.  Even after giving everything, God will say, "Because of you, I want to live in you."

Which sentiment makes this possible?

It is love.  Even if God had to live as a servant, he would be happy, just as long as that life were lived inside of love.  

Love transcends law.

Throughout fallen history, God never abandoned humanity.  He has been continuously giving his love to us.  He has done so without complaining.  He still gives you everything without reserve.

Why do you not give back to God?

It is the same as a spoiled child.  How can we be like this?

God is made of absolute love. He is still frustrated due to humanity severing a true direct relationship with Him.  He is not able to give all of his love.

He is limited by our choices.

God cannot assert Himself into anyone's lives.  Since God's purpose in creating man was to give perfect love, then even though the human world prohibits Him from doing so until now, He will still pour out His love to us.

When we think that our Father has unconditionally been giving to us, the better we feel.

If God was the type of person that says, "I have given everything, so now you give back," then there would not be a need for that type of God.

God is the Father of human beings, and human beings are God's sons and daughters. 

Since we fell away from the standard of God and followed another, we are at best God's adopted children awaiting the full restoration of our sinful fallen lineage to God's pure lineage through the Messiah.

God invested the core of His bone marrow when He created humanity.

If we pull on God, God cannot help but follow.  God created for the purpose of love.  That is why God likes to see a man and woman love each other.

For this reason, God appears in the world as the essence of love.

A child is the fruit, the manifestation of the parents' love, an extension of their life.

Children are the embodiment of their parents' ideals.

Children are born based on their parents' love, life and ideals.  Therefore the more the parents see them, the more loveable they become.  The more they become the ideal people, the more vibrant life becomes.

Human beings are born through the relationship of love as God's absolute partners. This is where God becomes Father and we become His sons and daughters.  

If there was a position that was higher than that, then humans would desire to occupy that position.  If there is something that is better, because human desire seeks the best, then God would have to give it to us.

Since God has this highest form of love, He is surely the Father of humankind and human beings are His sons and daughters.

Clearly, God created us with value.

If God created us without Him knowing this, then He would be an incomplete God.  But God is the Absolute Being and thus He created us as His absolute partners. 

What kind of being is God, the Creator of heaven and earth? He is a being of utmost goodness, the root of all things, and the Lord of love. 

God wanted to give all the precious things in the whole universe to humankind.  If there is someone that God could believe in and entrust everything to, He would pass on the most precious things to him in their entirety.

Since God is our Father, He wouldn't have created us as mediocre or incompetent partners.  Who would even want a spouse that is like this?

He created us to stand in an equal position to Him.  The all-knowing, all-powerful God  created us to be the same level.

Therefore, our conscience seeks the best.

Since God is the Absolute Being, why did He need to create human beings?  He did not create them for the sake of money, knowledge or power.  He created man so He could feel love.

If the connection between God and human beings are made, then absolutely nothing can sever the relationship of loving oneness between God and humankind.

In the creation of human beings, He invested every bit of Himself to fashion us into the most precious ideal perfect form.

Many believe God to be a being that demands to be worshiped, but God's reason for creating human beings is out of love.

God created Adam and Eve only wanting to exist for their sake.

An ideal being does not live for his own sake; an ideal being lives for the sake of others.

An ideal being lives for the sake of its object partner.  This principle is the basic core of the universe.

No matter how all-knowing, all-powerful, and absolute God may be, God cannot be happy all alone.

The words "happiness" and "it's good" do not have meaning if you are alone.  You can say life is good when you have give and take between a partner in a relationship.  Is there anyone who can truly say that they are happy when he is alone?

No matter how all-knowing and almighty God may be, He is not happy when He is alone. 

Let's say a singer was stuck on an island by himself.

Would he be happy if he had no one to listen to his song?  He will only be joyful when that give and take exists with a partner.  Likewise, God needs an object partner in order to experience joy.

God, by completely investing Himself, created His object of love because He needed an object of love. You cannot love by yourself. 

God created human beings as such objects of love because He, also cannot love without such objects of love.

The Bible says that God created us through the Word, but He was not lax with His work.  He created them by investing Himself 120 percent through excruciating hardship and difficulty.

When established Church members think about God's creation of heaven and the earth they focus on His omniscience and power.  Thereby, they believe simply that He created everything by His words within six physical days instead of time periods.

The creation did not, however, come about through any type of magic.

He created us through investing His entire being with a sincere heart.

This is why we love Him.  Just as we fully love something for which we have invested our utmost efforts and blood and flesh in.

We place what we have invested in the object of our sincerest hope because it is the core of our entire being.

God does not tell us to give everything for His sake, rather than Him instructing us to cleave to Him, He invests Himself.

He placed the starting point of of the ideal of world peace upon the principle of existing for the sake of others.

This is why God invested Himself for our sake.  From this viewpoint, we understand that God exists for mankind's sake.

What does God mean when He says, "I am love"?  He is teaching us to cherish love by night and day, during any activities even while dancing and crying.  In this manner, He could say, "I have love in its entirety."

Having love in its entirety means that everything was invested into it.

The one who cherishes love the most is God.

God possesses all of that love, yet once we get a taste of it, we are unable to let go of it even in death.

As an omniscient, omnipresent being, there is nothing God wants to withhold for Himself.  He already has everything, He lacks nothing.

What He values most and takes pride in, it is love.

Apart from love, God does not need anything.

How will we be able to bring completion to the ideal world God had in mind?  Surprisingly, it does not start with God, but with human beings.

Human beings were destined to stand at the center of creation.  For this reason, unless humanity who are God's object can become perfect, there is no way for God to become fully perfect.

This is because humankind and God are one.

What element makes us unite with God and His will?

Is it any of God's qualities: His omnipotence, omnipresence, power?  No. 

Then what should it be?  God is alive and dwells in the spirit world, transcendent of time and space.

What is the center of God's life.  God lives with love as His central focal point.  

God's focus from the very beginning was love and throughout His present course.  He will do so for eternity, live for love.  This is because when he has a true object of His love, God feels joy.

God has a storehouse of love which keeps replenishing itself even after He gives and gives from it.

Even if we were to steal a lot of love from this storehouse and give it out day and night, God would not punish us.  He would say that it was okay and that it was good.

He would even encourage us to take as much as we wanted and keep doing it forever.  There is always love left no matter how much we take.  That is why He is God.

God will say, "That is why I am the Subject. As the Subject Partner must have more than He can give to the object partner, otherwise I would not be God.  That is what I am like!"

If you want to steal love from God and distribute it like a power plant of love, He will supply as much as you need.

When God runs out of love, you will want to get more so you can connect to His pipeline of love.  God will say, "If you want, go ahead!"  This is how great God's love is.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Your Parents are Your False Parents

This post was rewritten and derived from The Original Being of God Chapter One, Cheon Seong Gyeong Section 4