Family is where all the efforts are brought to fruition and all of God's work is fulfilled.
God's ideal was purposed to manifest beginning in the family and happiness of family.
The family is good because it is the base for all free activities based on parental love.
An ideal family is God-centered with eternal parental love; eternal conjugal love and eternal fililal love can be found.
We all must have a family base.
It is composed of parents, children and their possessions.
What being is able to be the manifestation of the spiritual, physical history of the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages?
Creation, the children and the parents are required in order to form a family.
This ideal does not lie in any other philosophy.
The beginning as well as the ending is in the family.
Who has been able to solve the problem of obtaining eternal happiness?
This is why it has been sought after more than ever. Unificationism has been recognized because happiness is only attained through a systematized, universalized form taught through the teachings of the Messiah.
If everyone in the world without exception were to bow their heads and admit to the ideology of Unificationism, then unity would automatically be achieved.
When you look carefully at the sisty-six books in the Bible, you will see that it is an expression of the hope for ideal families. Isn't that what the Bible teachings are mostly formed from, the family?
Every story was connected to a person within the context of their family.
Jesus and his mother and father, Job losing his family, Tamar, Sarah and on and on.
If you find a man who says that they do not want an ideal wife, then he also cannot claim to be a man.
It is quite obvious that the desire of women since they are born is to meet ideal husbands. No matter how great a woman is in the world, no matter whether she is a college graduate or holds a doctorate, her greatest desire would be likewise - to meet an ideal man.
Her desire is to meet an ideal man whom she can love and can have beloved sons and daughters. This is the root of happiness. Since we have this doctrine deeply rooted in such a family, no one can be removed from it.
Where will the Kingdom of Heaven be first established?
This is why it has been sought after more than ever. Unificationism has been recognized because happiness is only attained through a systematized, universalized form taught through the teachings of the Messiah.
If everyone in the world without exception were to bow their heads and admit to the ideology of Unificationism, then unity would automatically be achieved.
When you look carefully at the sisty-six books in the Bible, you will see that it is an expression of the hope for ideal families. Isn't that what the Bible teachings are mostly formed from, the family?
Every story was connected to a person within the context of their family.
Jesus and his mother and father, Job losing his family, Tamar, Sarah and on and on.
What do men desire? To be married to an ideal wife.
If you find a man who says that they do not want an ideal wife, then he also cannot claim to be a man.
It is quite obvious that the desire of women since they are born is to meet ideal husbands. No matter how great a woman is in the world, no matter whether she is a college graduate or holds a doctorate, her greatest desire would be likewise - to meet an ideal man.
Her desire is to meet an ideal man whom she can love and can have beloved sons and daughters. This is the root of happiness. Since we have this doctrine deeply rooted in such a family, no one can be removed from it.
Where will the Kingdom of Heaven be first established?
'The Way of the True family' is the best term for our belief.
We advocate cosmos-centered ideology.
I need to provide a detailed explanation in order to clarify the meaning of the word "cosmos". You can view the family as a miniature nation which is grounded within a small social unit.
The family is a miniature nation, world and cosmos.
Therefore, if you abandon the family, you will not be able to do anything. We are great in that we teach people these things about the family which were not known before. The family is the everlasting base. This fact cannot be changed by the father or elder brother, by any system in the world that tries to change this principle.
The most important time in anyone's life is the moment of birth, marriage and death.
We each should be born well. In other words as we say, we should be born through the bond of heart. Marriage, the next important moment in marriage. We marry in order to live a full life.
We advocate cosmos-centered ideology.
I need to provide a detailed explanation in order to clarify the meaning of the word "cosmos". You can view the family as a miniature nation which is grounded within a small social unit.
The family is a miniature nation, world and cosmos.
Therefore, if you abandon the family, you will not be able to do anything. We are great in that we teach people these things about the family which were not known before. The family is the everlasting base. This fact cannot be changed by the father or elder brother, by any system in the world that tries to change this principle.
The most important time in anyone's life is the moment of birth, marriage and death.
We each should be born well. In other words as we say, we should be born through the bond of heart. Marriage, the next important moment in marriage. We marry in order to live a full life.
We marry in order to achieve the four-position relationship of God, parents, Spouse, children.
When we will see such public laws of the universe governed established on earth, then God's will and humanity's will for world peace will be fulfilled. The family is where we can find structure and contents required by these universal laws.
We can see that the world develps resembling the family structure. Even if the world is in total choas, this will always remain true.
Therefore, the ideal world we envision for the future must be established based on the trinty of the family.
Since the four position relationship needs to be completed by every human being, everyone should marry and form a family.
'We must take after God. A society that is based on human beings must take after them centering on God.
When we will see such public laws of the universe governed established on earth, then God's will and humanity's will for world peace will be fulfilled. The family is where we can find structure and contents required by these universal laws.
We can see that the world develps resembling the family structure. Even if the world is in total choas, this will always remain true.
Therefore, the ideal world we envision for the future must be established based on the trinty of the family.
Since the four position relationship needs to be completed by every human being, everyone should marry and form a family.
'We must take after God. A society that is based on human beings must take after them centering on God.
I founded the Unification Church in order to make this come true. The whole world should already have developed to such a state, but it is not the case yet. However, through such principles, the world can ultimately come to resemble human beings centered on God.
The ideal world of peace is where the whole world is molded in the image of an ideal person.This world will transcend national and racial boundaries.\\\
The family is the horizontal foundation that is in the same form of a miniature world.
Then from the family stems the nation and the world. What is the family? It is the objective standard to the absolute center.
What are the individuals? They are the stepping stones which the absolute center resides. When you view the ideal world in this way, an individual cannot be bestowed as the absolute authority to judge this world.
This authority should be bestowed on a true family. This is why you have seen a similiar example of kingdoms being ran by families.
Then knowing this, what would be the first place Satan would attack in humanity?
It would be the place of the family.
This is why families that fail to unite into one break up. The breakdown between father and son, husband and wife, the whole family is the result of disunity. If a person created a family and watched it break up later, he will be scarred with a wound that could not be healed for eternity. There is no amount of consolation that would do this person any good.
We must become parents, husband, wives and siblings that are united within the family which God has yearned for.
Why is the family good?
We yearn for the family because it provides an environment where we can share love with one another freely. This is the reason why people miss their home and their hometown because the parents and sibling live there.
When the father is pleased, the whole family is pleased.
When the child is pleased within the family, then the whole family is pleased.
The family is where the whole universe can experience joy simultaneously.
We start by gaining control of our body and mind and become a perfected individual.
Then the husband and wife need to become one in order to form a perfected family.
The family is where the whole universe can experience joy simultaneously.
We start by gaining control of our body and mind and become a perfected individual.
Then the husband and wife need to become one in order to form a perfected family.
When the mother and father become as one, that family can develop further.
When the children and the parents in a family become one, that family will flourish on a higher level.
What will happen if families unite with their relatives?
Many movies are made about the problems that come with in-laws, extended family are relatives. what would happen if we naturally just were able to get along with them?
Then a new spirit among the people will emerge.
When they seek to go to an even higher level, they will bring unity of the entire nation. They will be remembered as a clan of loyal patriots. A family of God's Kingdom does not come about through force, rather it happens naturally where there is joy.
Even when loving, one should not strive to merely receive love, because ideal love is only established when there is giving and receiving between the two.
A happy family is one where the husband comes home after work and discusses everything that happened to him during the work day with his wife and plans new areas of pioneer with her. A happy family is one that strives continuously to discover new things.
When the parents set such an example in the family, the children will come to contribute as well. They will gladly align themselves to make such a family.
The true family is the place where a husband sacrifices for and loves his wife as he loves his mother. On the same token, the wife sacrifices for and loves her husband as her father.
Also, they should love each other as younger sister and older brother respectively.
Heaven is where ideal families live in a world where husbands and wives love and respect each other as they would God.
such a tradition should be established on earth.
The true family is the place where a husband sacrifices for and loves his wife as he loves his mother. On the same token, the wife sacrifices for and loves her husband as her father.
Also, they should love each other as younger sister and older brother respectively.
Heaven is where ideal families live in a world where husbands and wives love and respect each other as they would God.
such a tradition should be established on earth.
The mother and father cannot become as one without love.
Why do you think you cherish love?
It is because you are destined to like it if you don't want to.
The greater the love the mother and the father have for one another rather than just the love they have for themselves, the more ideal it would be.
Love's bond binds the mother and father completely into one.
Metal chains rust and break after much time, but the bond of love is eternal.
Food or money will not bond the parents and children. This will happen only through the love between the parents and children that they can bound together.
A family formed on a foundation that cannot be affected by the elements of revolution, no philosophy or ideology would be able to absorb it.
Rather, that family would control and surpass them.
A family with such a standard would be eternally unchanging, even after decades, centuries, and milleniums. They would maintain the form of a entire race and nation.
What would be contained inside a package of love?
Once you have reached the homeland and opened the package of love, an ideal husband or ideal wife would come out.
Moreover, the package of love should contain a pouch that is filled with blessings from which an ideal family would spring forth from it. The highest level of restoration for the world would come out of this pouch. in this state, no one in the world would be above or below anyone. The individual, family, tribe, race nation and world would be all at the highest level.
Therefore, brothers and sisters as well as the family itself would be restored based on the foundation of love. In order to lay such a foundation for unity, a package of love like a treasure chest is required.
The family gives birth to the love for society, nation, and humanity
A circular motion is created once your mind and body are united centered on God and manifests in all sorts of forms and figures. This is why the older sibling must love the younger, by following the example of their parents loving them.
A family that is united into one in love will blossom.
That love will flourish and spread to the love within the society, then the love within the nation.
In this way, it later becomes the love of the whole world.
Unfortunately, the ideal of love within the family spreading to each level has been obscured. There has been an all and out attack on the structure of the family.
How should love be between siblings?
How should siblings love each other? They should love one another as their father and mother loves them. From whom should they learn to love? They should learn from their parents.
Ideal love is realized in the family, however, God could not have true sons and daughters.
There has not been true brothers and sister or husband and wife in society before. If we could not become true children could God become fully our True Father? No, we are only at best His adopted children, because our bloodline belongs to Satan.
It is God's will to fulfill these things. Love dwells only when God's will is fulfilled. People would abandon everything they have in the world just to find their way to the place where such a heavenly love could be found.
What is true love?
It is parental love, conjugal love and filial love put together.
If people are unable to sacrifice their selfish ways for each other, then love will not be able to last a long time in the that environment and will disappear. This easily explains why marriages and families are breaking down due to humanity adapting to more selfish, individualistic way of living.
Naturally, good parents sacrifice themselves for their children. The bond of love they have for their children will never break. The sons and daughters who grew up receiving true love from their parents will be filial children toward them.
When the husband and wife try more and more to live sacrificially for each other, thinking in their hearts, "You have lived for my sake," their family will receive blessings from heaven.
Such families are the dwelling place that God seeks.
Who is the most valuable in the family?
The children are not the most valuable. This sounds shocking. Take yourself for example. Is there anything that is more valuable than your parents? Is authority, knowledge, honor or money more precious to you than them? Wouldn't you give up all of these things if your parents were on their deathbed? Of course.
The parents are of the highest value within the family. None of these objects are more valuable than your parents. The next in value would be your spouse and finally your children.
What is more valuable than the life of those listed above? There is no such thing in creation that is more valuable than the unit of your family. Then why do we value our parents, spouse and children so highly?
When the husband and wife try more and more to live sacrificially for each other, thinking in their hearts, "You have lived for my sake," their family will receive blessings from heaven.
Such families are the dwelling place that God seeks.
Who is the most valuable in the family?
The children are not the most valuable. This sounds shocking. Take yourself for example. Is there anything that is more valuable than your parents? Is authority, knowledge, honor or money more precious to you than them? Wouldn't you give up all of these things if your parents were on their deathbed? Of course.
The parents are of the highest value within the family. None of these objects are more valuable than your parents. The next in value would be your spouse and finally your children.
What is more valuable than the life of those listed above? There is no such thing in creation that is more valuable than the unit of your family. Then why do we value our parents, spouse and children so highly?
It is because we have a love for them that will never be severed. Even within a relationship where there seems to be 'hate' within the family, hate is a form of love that has been misguided in the wrong direction. You can't not hate that which you do not love.
Parental love is absolutely necessary for the children.
For a husband and wife to stay united, conjugal love is necessary.
The sibling love between brothers and sisters, and filial piety toward parents, are also absolutely necessary in a family.
Who do you cherish and like the most in your family?
It's your parents, right? Why do you like them the most?
It is the one relationship in your life that sustains love from the moment of birth o throughout your life. The one you love next best would be your spouse. If the love shared in the relationship between a husband and wife is not a conditioned love, but is unconditional, then that love becomes the best thing in a family. Nowadays, spouses agree to love each other until the other crosses a certain boundary. This is a conditioned love that is based on the individual's preferences.
Unconditional love brings happiness and harmony even if this love is not directly connected to the eternal love of God. Then finally the filial love the children have for their parents. If children can sacrifice their selfish ways for and love their parents in a bright and positive manner, they can bloom as the hope of the future. This type of filial love will be a pure and sincere contribution to their own happiness.
A family that is in complete possession of the true parental love, true conjugal love and has true filial love would be the most ideal family in the world.
Who do you think is the center of the family?
The person who is the oldest member of the family. That would be the great grandfather if he is still living. He would be the center of the family.
If the other members choose to ignore him and think of him as not as immportant because he will soon pass, it is the same as ignoring the vertical (spiritual realm) world.
Even if the eldest in the family was to become senile and dependent on other, he should still be the center of that family. This means he should be the first served at the every meal. This is becausee the son represents the horizonatl position.
Where does unhappiness come from?
It is when the love nest is lost. In a happy family, the children live with and attend their parents who safeguard the household. The parents safeguard the house.
The parents represent God. They are two strangers who represent two separate families who unite as husband and wife, bound together in love. They abide by the heavenly principle and carry on the family line. A family must have parents, spouse and children. Only then can that family provide the grounds for happiness.
God's yearning for the ideal He purposed for humankind is in order to find His own happiness. God cannot fulfill His ideal world without human beings. Only when humankind and God form a relationship in unity, can He have a place of emotional harmony.
We feel joy when we are emotionally content in our own homes. God wants to be able to feel the same from such a position with the world. Even if someone was to obtain all the wealth, fame and possessions in the world, this alone does not bring happiness.
Do we not see this trend today? There are mega stars in deep depression, suicidal and unhappy even though they seem to externally have everything. These things may be the condition to find happiness, but they cannot be happiness itself.
What determines whether you feel happy or not?
In order to feel happy, you need to have a loving parent, a spouse, and children. No one one earth can deny this truth. If anyone has only fulfilled one of these conditions, he would still feel a hole, incomplete and feel sad. He would not be able to help feeling discontent proportionate to what is missing.
What do youthink God had in mind for the first human ancestors?
Could such a loving God have imagined a world of chaos for His children? A world filled with sadness and unhappiness?
God's ideal was for man and woman to come together in union to form an ideal family that would eventually become an ideal world.
The man or woman is not the center of an ideal family. A family is just an unit that is connected to each other by the bond of a parent to a child and a husband and wife's love. These relationships would then be centered on God's love.
Therefore, we can conclude that God's will is to perfect a family that is centering on His love.
We feel joy when we are emotionally content in our own homes. God wants to be able to feel the same from such a position with the world. Even if someone was to obtain all the wealth, fame and possessions in the world, this alone does not bring happiness.
Do we not see this trend today? There are mega stars in deep depression, suicidal and unhappy even though they seem to externally have everything. These things may be the condition to find happiness, but they cannot be happiness itself.
What determines whether you feel happy or not?
In order to feel happy, you need to have a loving parent, a spouse, and children. No one one earth can deny this truth. If anyone has only fulfilled one of these conditions, he would still feel a hole, incomplete and feel sad. He would not be able to help feeling discontent proportionate to what is missing.
What do youthink God had in mind for the first human ancestors?
Could such a loving God have imagined a world of chaos for His children? A world filled with sadness and unhappiness?
God's ideal was for man and woman to come together in union to form an ideal family that would eventually become an ideal world.
The man or woman is not the center of an ideal family. A family is just an unit that is connected to each other by the bond of a parent to a child and a husband and wife's love. These relationships would then be centered on God's love.
Therefore, we can conclude that God's will is to perfect a family that is centering on His love.
This is an ideal family: a place where parents, children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters desire to unite into oneness based on true love.
From such a place the eternal global equalization begins and consequently, the God's Kingdom on earth.
This is followed by God's Kingdom in heaven coming about automatically.
As God is the original substance of true love, when one connects to true love everyone becomes part of one body.
Parents are gods living in God's stead on earth, husband and wife are mutual counterpart gods and sons and daughters are little gods.
Is there any domination or manipulations on any part within that kind of relationship?
A family is composed of three generations which is centered on true love in this manner and is the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Without achieving such a foundation, the kingdom cannot be established.
From such a place the eternal global equalization begins and consequently, the God's Kingdom on earth.
This is followed by God's Kingdom in heaven coming about automatically.
As God is the original substance of true love, when one connects to true love everyone becomes part of one body.
Parents are gods living in God's stead on earth, husband and wife are mutual counterpart gods and sons and daughters are little gods.
Is there any domination or manipulations on any part within that kind of relationship?
A family is composed of three generations which is centered on true love in this manner and is the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Without achieving such a foundation, the kingdom cannot be established.
The family is the center of the universe.
Family perfection is the basis for the perfection of the universe.
If there is true love within the family and a love for the universe, you can freely go anywhere.
In this case, God stands in the combined central position of love as the Parent of the whole universe.
Man's love, woman's love, son's love, daughter's love, parents' love and God's love are all included in the original ideal family foundation.
Those who love their parents, spouse and children in such an harmonized circumstance leads a heavenly life.
If there is true love within the family and a love for the universe, you can freely go anywhere.
In this case, God stands in the combined central position of love as the Parent of the whole universe.
Man's love, woman's love, son's love, daughter's love, parents' love and God's love are all included in the original ideal family foundation.
Those who love their parents, spouse and children in such an harmonized circumstance leads a heavenly life.
There is a saying to the effect, "All is well if there is harmony within the family." If peace reigns in a family everything will go well.
A family that has reached perfection in love, is a family that experience peace which forms the basis of God's Kingdom.
The driving force of a family is true love.
Loving God more than yourself and loving your spouse more than life itself is such an example of the the power of pure and beautiful love.
God did not create a force that is greater than the power of true love in the universe.
Such a family is the basis of God's Kingdom.
How else will heaven on earth begin if the individuals within a family are disunited? Each family's driving force is true love.
A human being should be part of a parent-child relationship as well as a husband and wife and sibling relationship.
These three relationships should meet at one point.
There can only be one central point.
That means the central point of upper and lower, left and right and front and rear should be one and the same.
If any of these have a different center, then the balance of the three relationships would be broken.
For example, it is hard for even three people to come together if their each stick their their philosophies without finding a common ground.
In the end, there are seven points: above, below, left, right, front, rear and finally the central point is formed.
The significance of fulfilling the number seven is the seven points have become as one in perfected true love, centering on God, thus achieving a perfect sphere forming a family that manifests harmony and peace.
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A family that has reached perfection in love, is a family that experience peace which forms the basis of God's Kingdom.
The driving force of a family is true love.
Loving God more than yourself and loving your spouse more than life itself is such an example of the the power of pure and beautiful love.
God did not create a force that is greater than the power of true love in the universe.
True love is God's love.
Such a family is the basis of God's Kingdom.
How else will heaven on earth begin if the individuals within a family are disunited? Each family's driving force is true love.
A human being should be part of a parent-child relationship as well as a husband and wife and sibling relationship.
These three relationships should meet at one point.
There can only be one central point.
That means the central point of upper and lower, left and right and front and rear should be one and the same.
If any of these have a different center, then the balance of the three relationships would be broken.
For example, it is hard for even three people to come together if their each stick their their philosophies without finding a common ground.
In the end, there are seven points: above, below, left, right, front, rear and finally the central point is formed.
The significance of fulfilling the number seven is the seven points have become as one in perfected true love, centering on God, thus achieving a perfect sphere forming a family that manifests harmony and peace.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Thanksgiving: Gift of True Christian Spirit
This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Ten, Chapter Two, Section 1
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