Let's Plant Seeds of True Love

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms." Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati If love does not exist, then oneness cannot  be achieved. When two separate entities become united into one, there are no such words on their own that can bring this unity about. Two can become one through material objects, but once the material are gone, so does the unity. Also, if there was a third party which brought this unity of the two things together, unity disappears once the third person separate.   In order for two to be one eternally, there has to be love. It will not work without love. From the viewpoint of God, the universe's essence is love. If you were to look at the world from God's viewpoint, the universe is the essence of love. Through true love, unification automatically will come about.  Once we love at the level higher than Satan's selfish love, then, Satan will also be pulled in. We can look at love in this way: God created Heaven and this earth and gave it to us as the utmost goodness and love. The power of love bridges the gap between upper and lower and transcends space and time.  Many romantic movies use this basic standard of the rich man falling in love with the pauper woman. What is witnessed in the presence of love? Wouldn't it make sense that things that are far apart would come close together when love is around? Why do we all like love?  It is because it can bring things that are really far apart come close and bring them into one in unity. Who or what power will be able to bring the different cultures together?  We have seen humanity try through politics, military or cultural power. None of these certain powers will bring about lasting unity and peace on this earth. So, what will bring about this oneness we all seek? It is simply the great power of true love. Once you see from this pure viewpoint, we see why we like love.  People like love the most because it is the subject that brings everything and makes it theirs. There is no one alive that is so cold that they cannot be melted by the power of true love. When we see how great and powerful Godly pure love is and observe humanity, we see that people do not know the full potential for love to bring about world peace. This is why the Messiah comes to teach us about the true power of the original love of God. If there is a person who has a true loving heart, they can unite extreme enemies who once vowed to kill one another.  They can only do this through the power of true love. Love can unite the most extreme and opposite things. What is a man or a woman? We can see them as poles.  In the original world God created, if a woman was to tell another woman that she was IN love with her because of her soft hands, this would be offensive. Even though in our current society, all situations are acceptable, the idea of two women would be viewed as unideal in God's heaven because they are of the same polarity. Men and women are on the opposite poles of one another.  What brings about unification? The method that can unify all things is the idea of living for the sake of another. For example, if we want to unite North and South Korea, do we do so by the familyship of Kim Il Sung? Could he bring about unity of the two enemy countries? Those of faith do not follow that way. Everywhere love dwells is good and desirable.   If we could come to a position in North Korea to give out love eternally, the love given to the higher degree will cancel out the North's false advertisements which control the people South Koreans could unite with the North Koreans by excelling beyond in every field including education.  This way, the North Koreans would volunteer and unite with the South Koreans even if they were ordered not to do so.   Goodness prospers whenever it overcomes difficulty, and it always prevails. It may seem on the course of battle in this religious life of faith that it is difficult for good to persevere, but this one principle of love ALWAYS brings victory.  Unity happen as long as it heads in the right direction. Those who live by this simple principle will definitely triumph no matter how dire their current situation may seem. Any organization that lives by, teaches and spreads the philosophy that personal gain is not for the individual, but is a gain for the nation and the world, that entity will not perish even if the world does. Since Unification Thought, Divine Principle teaches this, it will not perish.     Unification cannot be achieved when we are indebted.     While one is withheld in the realm of owing debt, there cannot be unification. There is no way for the Kingdom of Heaven while there is still debt to be paid by humanity.  A nation becomes a rich nation once there is a means to pay back the debt to the other countries which includes interest. America a once flourishing, idealistic country, now has an economy of debt. Q. Where shall we head? We should go in search of love.  From a human standpoint, we view the world as great.  We have become a world that is hailed as wonderful in the context of people accumulating wealth, ruling over the world, becoming knowledgeable, but these have no true meaning in the realm of true love. We should become one through true love and unite mind and body with our Heavenly Parent on a horizontal (physical) and vertical(spiritual) level. If there is a man and woman who has reached such a unity of spirit and body, they will aligned to God's vertical love. This is the only just as our flesh is attached to bone, man and woman unite with God's love. Return for Tomorrow's Post: Where Shall We Go? This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Thirteen, Chapter 5, Section 3,4

World Peace: Messiah Needs You

The Messiah returns to bring a higher ideology just as was done 2,000 years ago.  A higher truth than the 10 Commandments came in the form of the words of "Love they brother and sister as thyself".  This was a revelation when it was first heard. 

To Love.  People tried to stone the Messiah where ever he brought the breaking news.  Now the Messiah returns to bring breaking news that burns the earth once more with God's Word like fire.  Just as the New Testament was a higher ideology than the Old Testament, the Messiah brings the Completed Testament with a higher ideology than the New Testament.

Sounds blasphemous.  Hundreds of Israelites thought the Messiah's words and actions were outrageous during his time as well.  He spoke about loving him more than mother and father and husband.  He said to drink of his blood.  He told people about no one could enter heaven without going through him.  What took 2,000 years to accept is now common knowledge after millions of Christians sacrificed their life for the truth to spread throughout the world.

It was not God's plan that the Messiah would not accepted in the end.  Jesus was to be lifted up to king, and conquer Rome in his time 2,000 years ago.  As we peer into history, Rome was conquered by Jesus' followers only after 400 years of persecution.

 Why would God send Jesus to his own people to kill him, why not send him to a place full of barbarians who would kill him.  Why spend thousands of years to prepare the Israelites to receive Jesus if they were going to reject him and kill him anyway as God's first and only choice?

Individuals and families make up the nation.  In order for Jesus to be kings of kings while he was on the earth, he needed people.  You can't rule a nation without a people that will follow you.  Everywhere Jesus turned, he was met with opposition, even in his own family.  Even in the end, his very own disciples scattered instead of uplifting Jesus to the position of King on earth.  He was only able to obtain king in the spiritual realm, not on the physical earth.

His own disciples did not fully understand Jesus' mission.  This was not completely their fault.  Jesus was supposed to be supported by the high religious leadership of his time, people who God prepared to understand Jesus' higher standard of teaching.  Unfortunately, during his time, they could only see him as a lowly man and heretic.

The Messiah returns to bring the higher ideology which will completely break the bond of satan.  Just as Jesus, the Returned Messiah needs support of God's people.  He needs the Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of every faith to support and spread the new truth of God that Jesus could not give to the people because they did not understand his true mission in his time.

The Messiah returns to completely break our physical chains that satan has used to command us.  The messiah was able to give spiritual salvation and returns to give physical salvation.  The Flesh and blood of the Messiah was attacked by satan in order to bring about salvation spiritually.  What does that mean?

You will be able to be saved from physical attacks of satan, diseases, early death, anxiety and numerous ways satan attacks our bodies.  Even if this is hard to grasp, no one can deny that the Son of God's own body was lost to through the attacks of satan.  Even though Jesus' gave up his body in exchange for God's children, his physical body was still attacked by satan.

God Needs His Soldiers

As the Messiah returns, he needs those who will be able to follow and carry out his message to the people.  Just as Jesus said when asked what should the people do, he told us to pick up our cross and follow him.  During his time he had a select few who could follow him. 

Ultimately in the end, he lost even his own disciples who could not follow his last command to stay awake while he prayed.  This had a significance on how Jesus was not able to completely finish his mission.  By his disciples not being able to stay awake and support him while he prayed, from a providential point-of-view, it showed that they were still claimed by satan.

As the Messiah returns,this time, based on Jesus' foundation of victory, the Messiah will finally be able to stand against satan with 144, 000 who march with him in faith.  These are the initial clergymen and people of faith which like a cloud, the Messiah will be able to stand upon on his return.  He will lead the way for God's children to learn God's words that will separate His children once and for all from Satan's grip on this earth. 

This is called Armageddon.  Is this going to be physical or spiritual?  Just like in Jesus' time, the people chose to abandon the Messiah, and we see that the Israelites were left without a nation for 2,000 years, we today have a choice to follow the Messiah or worse - World War III.  

Since God plans to absolutely eradicate satan from earth, if people this time choose to leave the Messiah and continue to follow satan, he will even sacrifice those people to start over.  He did this in Noah's time with water, this time with fire.  That fire can be either through His perfect living word which is like fire, or through nuclear fire.  It is up to you and me to open our eyes widely to the time we are living.  We are no longer living in the time of darkness where the truth is hidden, we are living where God does not speak in symbols but plainly.  All things are being revealed to us past and future.

It is up to us to believe and practice the new truth that Jesus so desperately wanted to share with his people but they could not understand.  Once the truth is accepted just as we accept Jesus' words, then a whole new world where God reigns and Satan no longer has a person on earth with which to work through will be a reality.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: How Was Jesus Physically Born Pure?

Today's post was taken from the Divine Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  The original text is in Korean and has been translated in conversational form without changing the meaning or spirit of the words.