God's love is the source of life, the source of happiness and the source of peace.
St. Paul asked who could cut off the line of God's love within Christ. Even Christ would not be Christ or savior without God's love. Have you ever thought of that fact?
You can come to understand this through spiritual experiences.
God's love is stronger than the sun.
When the sun rises in the morning the buds of plants turn toward the energy of the sun
Likewise, God's love is the source of life, the source of our original good mind, and the core source of ideal elements. That is the way it is.
Since God is the substantial essence of love and He is the central being of love, He has no beginning or an end.
The world of heart enables us to experience something special that we can be proud of thousands of years from now for having lived for one hour, and be proud for tens of thousands of years for having lived one day; this is true love.
Love originates from God
The world where God's love exists is like this.
How can we describe God's love?
Imagine a warm spring day where white clouds float gently by in the sky.
On this day the air shimmers above the ground, insects, ants scurry about exploring the magnificent world.
Next to the warm flowing stream, catkins blossom and frogs sing new songs of spring welcoming swarms of bees and fluttering butterflies.
You would be enraptured in this atmosphere, a twilight state we experience right before drifting peacefully off to sleep. Yet you wake in a happy mood rejoicing forever.
God's love has such delectable flavor.
When your ideal partner is given to you by God, you will feel as if you are born in a flower garden where butterflies and bees are busy flying flower to flower.
This makes you happy just imagining such an environment.
Maybe thickheaded men cannot understand this very well.
Love fills the place where God dwells.
It is a place where the more you give, the more you desire to give even more. The more you receive, the more desire you have to give ten million times what you have received.
Would this be an environment of heaven or hell?
You would feel such an explosive stimulation because the more you give, a stimulation that makes you feel as if all of your cells exploded. God's love is like that.
What kind of being is God, who created the heaven and earth?
He is a being of the utmost goodness, the main root of all things and the subject partner of love. This is why, after He created all things, God wanted to give all the precious things in creation to human beings.
If God had someone whom He could truly, love and entrust all His things to, He will want to hand him all of His most precious possessions.
What kind of taste would God like most?
If God could smell, hear and feel what would He like to smell, hear and feel?
There is only one thing God likes? That is love.
Only love can focus God's five senses and fill Him with joy.
If God was looking for a partner in love what part of creation would He choose?
Would he choose an animal a true? We can conclude that it would surely be a human being. This is why we say that among all things of the universe, human beings have the highest value.
Within God's love is parental love, conjugal love, brotherly love and children's love.
Would he choose an animal a true? We can conclude that it would surely be a human being. This is why we say that among all things of the universe, human beings have the highest value.
Within God's love is parental love, conjugal love, brotherly love and children's love.
Once it expands it also contains the love of the nation and world. We say that God's love is parents' love, husband and wife's love, and children's love. This is the most wonderful thing that can be said.
What kind of love does God need? Would God want absolute love or false love?
What kind of love does God need? Would God want absolute love or false love?
It is the same for us. Just as God needs absolute love, unique love, unchanging love and eternal love, we also need the same. We should resemble God. God created because of love.
Because God created for the purpose of love, then God enjoys watching a man and woman loving each other.
Therefore, when God appears before the world of existence, He appears as the essence of love. Just because God has been giving love to us, He can say, "I gave all of this because I love you, why don't you give back to me?"
Is God this kind of character? God cannot assert Himself.
God has absolute love, but He is still anxious and troubled that He has not been able to give all the love He wants to give.
To give love completely, is God's purpose in creating people.
Because God created for the purpose of love, then God enjoys watching a man and woman loving each other.
Therefore, when God appears before the world of existence, He appears as the essence of love. Just because God has been giving love to us, He can say, "I gave all of this because I love you, why don't you give back to me?"
Is God this kind of character? God cannot assert Himself.
God has absolute love, but He is still anxious and troubled that He has not been able to give all the love He wants to give.
To give love completely, is God's purpose in creating people.
Thus, God's heart burns to pour out all of His love to the human world where He has as yet been unable to give His complete love freely.
The more we think of God, the more we feel God because He is such a God.
If God was the kind of god that demanded you give Him something back because He gave, we would not need Him.
In giving us love, how much would God want to give?
God's love does not work according to a limit that says that a certain amount is enough. It is a love that wants to give infinitely. Even after giving everything, God will say, "I want to live in you because of you."
What brings this about? It is love.
If love is present, God would be happy to live even as a servant. The father will feel joy even if his beloved son was to climb onto the dining table and take a poop.
There is nothing God does not have.
There is nothing He wants to keep back for Himself. Even though He has everything, if there is something He wants to present and be proud of as being the most precious of all what would that be?
God needs only love, and nothing except love. There is nothing He needs but love.
The more we think of God, the more we feel God because He is such a God.
If God was the kind of god that demanded you give Him something back because He gave, we would not need Him.
In giving us love, how much would God want to give?
God's love does not work according to a limit that says that a certain amount is enough. It is a love that wants to give infinitely. Even after giving everything, God will say, "I want to live in you because of you."
What brings this about? It is love.
If love is present, God would be happy to live even as a servant. The father will feel joy even if his beloved son was to climb onto the dining table and take a poop.
Love transcends the law.
There is nothing God does not have.
There is nothing He wants to keep back for Himself. Even though He has everything, if there is something He wants to present and be proud of as being the most precious of all what would that be?
God needs only love, and nothing except love. There is nothing He needs but love.
God said, "I am love." What does this mean?
It means to like love day and night, even while resting, working, dancing and crying. This is why He said, "I have love in it entirety and indicates that everything is contained therein.
Because God has such love, when we taste such love, we will not be able to let go of it even when we die.
What does it mean that God is the original being of life, goodness and truth?
These all have the same meaning and are indispensable. The central core of life, original being of love and original being of truth is God.
It means to like love day and night, even while resting, working, dancing and crying. This is why He said, "I have love in it entirety and indicates that everything is contained therein.
God is the one who like love most.
Because God has such love, when we taste such love, we will not be able to let go of it even when we die.
What does it mean that God is the original being of life, goodness and truth?
These all have the same meaning and are indispensable. The central core of life, original being of love and original being of truth is God.
God is the father and mother of humankind. Maybe this is the first time that you have heard that father is both father and mother.
We only perceive God to be a male characteristic, but God has dual characteristics of both feminine and masculine qualities. Since both men and women are made of God's image this makes sense.
God created human beings as His children to be the object partners of His love.
As He watches them grow, becoming brothers and sisters, husbands and wives and parents, God establishes Himself as the master of love at all stages.
Thus, human beings can be seen as more precious beings than God, who we enabled to be the master of love.
It is the same as you regarding someone you love as millions of times more valuable and precious than yourself.
We only perceive God to be a male characteristic, but God has dual characteristics of both feminine and masculine qualities. Since both men and women are made of God's image this makes sense.
God created human beings as His children to be the object partners of His love.
As He watches them grow, becoming brothers and sisters, husbands and wives and parents, God establishes Himself as the master of love at all stages.
Thus, human beings can be seen as more precious beings than God, who we enabled to be the master of love.
It is the same as you regarding someone you love as millions of times more valuable and precious than yourself.
God is the bone of love.
You should know this simple fact.
In regard to love, God is the bone, and human love is like the flesh of the body. The bone and the flesh become one to take shape. This is the principle operating.
Therefore what is love?
It works like a lubricant and a rail where upon everything turns.
Automobiles need oil to move, everything needs lubrication if it is to move. Movement needs lubrication. Without love there is no lubrication.
Only love can be the lubricant for the highest joy. It does not disappear because it is rooted in the eternal God. Action brings progress.
God's love appears in a place that does not change because God's love is unchanging, therefore it is eternal.
If God's love appears to us, it appears on the foundation of an unchanging heart.
Thus, we should eat for the sake of love, sleep for the sake of love and act for the sake of that love for our entire life.
As long as we have an eternal and perfect standard for the sake of love, God's love will appear.
Otherwise, the public principles of this universe would all be in vain.
God is our Father. Therefore, like an earthly father, day and night He worries that His children may be harmed.
He protects us if trouble comes, and He defends us if some opposing circumstances appear.
He is that kind of awesome parent.
Going in search of the essence of such a parent is the way of goodness and the way of love. Human beings, as God's children, need to receive God's perfect love.
Until this point was made clear, God has given His love to those people and even tribes and nations that were nearer to His side.
He blessed them by adding things again and again unless they should think that these things were too small and not receive them.
Even this was not enough.
God even gave them the life of His beloved son whom they even rejected and sacrificed.
Even after He gave over His only son to be killed, God again wants to give even more of His love. This is why on the day when we return this love, all of heaven and earth will turn into an ideal Kingdom of Heaven.
The principle of love concedes: the more love you receive, the more love you give in return.
When we give God a hundred units of love, God will return to us a thousand, ten thousand units of love.
If all we have is the the love of God, we can remain in God's bosom, we can squeeze God's nose, we will have no boundaries wherever we go in the world.
Thus, we should eat for the sake of love, sleep for the sake of love and act for the sake of that love for our entire life.
As long as we have an eternal and perfect standard for the sake of love, God's love will appear.
Otherwise, the public principles of this universe would all be in vain.
God is our Father. Therefore, like an earthly father, day and night He worries that His children may be harmed.
He protects us if trouble comes, and He defends us if some opposing circumstances appear.
He is that kind of awesome parent.
Going in search of the essence of such a parent is the way of goodness and the way of love. Human beings, as God's children, need to receive God's perfect love.
Until this point was made clear, God has given His love to those people and even tribes and nations that were nearer to His side.
He blessed them by adding things again and again unless they should think that these things were too small and not receive them.
Even this was not enough.
God even gave them the life of His beloved son whom they even rejected and sacrificed.
Even after He gave over His only son to be killed, God again wants to give even more of His love. This is why on the day when we return this love, all of heaven and earth will turn into an ideal Kingdom of Heaven.
The principle of love concedes: the more love you receive, the more love you give in return.
When we give God a hundred units of love, God will return to us a thousand, ten thousand units of love.
If all we have is the the love of God, we can remain in God's bosom, we can squeeze God's nose, we will have no boundaries wherever we go in the world.
We will have a free pass everywhere.
If you were to receive a kiss of love from God, you would feel a joy that triggers an explosion within you.
This is where God desires to be fulfilled. God does not rejoice in having diamonds or other jewelry.
Where do God and human beings connect?
They connect where their lives, loves and ideals intersect. That point would be the parent-child relationship.
From this point of view, then God is the subject partner of love, He is the subject partner of life, and the subject partner of the ideal.
In relation to His children, God ignores His authority and dignity.
However sinful or incompetent His children may be, if they are able to embrace Him with a repentful heart, He will not tell them to go away and stop.
Rather, He would embrace them, rub them and love them. He would experience this to the point his bones melt.
God has the desire to give again and again unceasingly even after He has give for thousands of years. For this reason, we are looking for God.
If God was a cheap merchant who says after He gave, "Hey that will cost you this much and that much amount," we would not need such a God.
If you were to receive a kiss of love from God, you would feel a joy that triggers an explosion within you.
This is where God desires to be fulfilled. God does not rejoice in having diamonds or other jewelry.
Where do God and human beings connect?
They connect where their lives, loves and ideals intersect. That point would be the parent-child relationship.
From this point of view, then God is the subject partner of love, He is the subject partner of life, and the subject partner of the ideal.
In relation to His children, God ignores His authority and dignity.
However sinful or incompetent His children may be, if they are able to embrace Him with a repentful heart, He will not tell them to go away and stop.
Rather, He would embrace them, rub them and love them. He would experience this to the point his bones melt.
God has the desire to give again and again unceasingly even after He has give for thousands of years. For this reason, we are looking for God.
If God was a cheap merchant who says after He gave, "Hey that will cost you this much and that much amount," we would not need such a God.
When you come into contact with God's love your hair will dance, and so will the cells of your body.
When you are a hundred percent intoxicated in this love, you will want to live forever rather than withdraw.
As the saying goes, "A saint's delight makes him forget the passage of time." There is indeed a way to become enraptured in such a high level of this kind of love beyond human imagination.
It has been said that if humanity had connected to God from the beginning and achieved perfection and carried His direct blood lineage, we would be so enraptured in love and oneness with God. We would sing and dance wherever we went. It would be likened to a musical where we are so intoxicated with love that we sing the words that come out of our mouths when we experience so much joy.
When you are a hundred percent intoxicated in this love, you will want to live forever rather than withdraw.
As the saying goes, "A saint's delight makes him forget the passage of time." There is indeed a way to become enraptured in such a high level of this kind of love beyond human imagination.
It has been said that if humanity had connected to God from the beginning and achieved perfection and carried His direct blood lineage, we would be so enraptured in love and oneness with God. We would sing and dance wherever we went. It would be likened to a musical where we are so intoxicated with love that we sing the words that come out of our mouths when we experience so much joy.
Love can fill anywhere, and reach everywhere.
What happens when loving people embrace?
Do they just hold each other's hands and say, "I love you"? Maybe they hug so strongly that their eyes pop out and water comes from both their mouth and their nose.
When they embrace, they don't just stand still, but turn around.
The universe will turn only because they are one in love like this.
God is the father of human beings, and human beings are God's sons and daughters. We were created through God investing the core of His bone, the core of His flesh and the core of His bone marrow in their entirety.
Therefore, when we pull God, God cannot helped but to come along. When God pulls human beings, they cannot help be pulled along.
Why do people like and follow God throughout the ages?
It is because God is the one who gives and gives again everything for thousands of years and yet He still feels ashamed that He has not given enough. He says, "Now I can only give you this much, but wait a bit longer, and I will give you something that is many hundreds of times, thousands of times better."
This is because He is someone whose heart is not content with what He gave today, but He promises to give better things in the future.
Why do all humans seek eternal life, to live forever?
We seek an eternal partnership of love because we have the value of being God's object partner. Because we will inevitably live eternally before the God of absolute love.
When you are able to stand in this place, God becomes you and you become God.
When we are connected to such a realm of God's love, what kind of feeling will we have. We will feel as if we were looking at the most beautiful intricate flower and smell all the fragrances in the garden.
At such a time, all the cells in our body will jump and dance in joy.
A man and woman must connect their horizontal love to God's vertical love. They must join at a ninety-degree angle.
Any love that does not fit this will end up as a wandering love and be destroyed.
When you enter the love where these two are aligned, you will be able to rule the whole universe through this love centered on God.
When you are able to have a relationship with the whole universe, you will not need any knowledge, power, money or even life.
Life also lives within love.
God likes the love between Adam and Eve. God wants to meet His sons and daughters and love them. This is the final destination desired where human beings attend God as their Father and receive love as His sons and daughters.
For God, Adam is the core of Himself, and the core of the ideal love of the future. So, Adam is God's external form or body when he is able to reach perfection. On the other hand, Eve is God's wife and body.
Adam is a spiritual partner who relates to God's body and Eve is a physical partner. When Adam and Eve become one as husband and wife and love each other they will share their love with God. This marriage will be exceptionally holy.
God does not need knowledge, because He created knowledge. Contrary to many non-believers, God does not need power, He is omnipotent, and omniscient.
He does not need money - so what does God need?
Can God create and receive love all by Himself when He is alone?
You may think that the almighty God can just receive love as He pleases but it is not like that.
Even though God is all powerful, He needs a partner the most with whom He can give and take in love. You have to understand this.
For God, Adam is the core of Himself, and the core of the ideal love of the future. So, Adam is God's external form or body when he is able to reach perfection. On the other hand, Eve is God's wife and body.
Adam is a spiritual partner who relates to God's body and Eve is a physical partner. When Adam and Eve become one as husband and wife and love each other they will share their love with God. This marriage will be exceptionally holy.
God does not need knowledge, because He created knowledge. Contrary to many non-believers, God does not need power, He is omnipotent, and omniscient.
He does not need money - so what does God need?
The only thing that God needs is love.
Can God create and receive love all by Himself when He is alone?
You may think that the almighty God can just receive love as He pleases but it is not like that.
Even though God is all powerful, He needs a partner the most with whom He can give and take in love. You have to understand this.
God's love is a wonderful flavor that combines everything.
It has a power as such that when you like it and grasp it, you can hold it without limit, and unfold it without limit. Hence with love, you can fill everything and reach everything.
It has a power as such that when you like it and grasp it, you can hold it without limit, and unfold it without limit. Hence with love, you can fill everything and reach everything.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love of Husband and Wife, Flower of Universe
This post was rewritten and derived from the Book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, "True Loe" Chapter Two, section 1
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