Through Loving Our Children, Become as God

Why are children so valued to a couple?

It is because children, who are the fruit of their parents' love, stand before them as representatives of the world.

Why do we think of people without children as being lonely?

Because children enable us to deeply experiences the circumstances of the heart of God while He created the entire universe through love.

Our children are born through us based on our motivation.

By having and loving our children we come to realize how God loved and fought for people through this course of restoration.

Children result from a concentration of parental love

Parents sacrifice for their children and return to God through their children.

They come to deeply experience parental love while loving their children.

Then they are led to feel and be aware of God's love, which is a manifestation of something original.  Since those who cannot have children cannot feel this deep parental love nor come to understand God's parental love, their love is always incomplete.

What kind of children can reside in the Kingdom of Heaven?

They are those who have paid off the debt of parental love on their own.

When parents become old and senile, the sons and daughters should endure the difficulties of their care with the same heart their parents had toward them when they were little.

This means cleaning up their urine and bowel movements.  Only then, will they be children of filial piety.

Parents have given their very lives for the sake of their own children.

Therefore, children should sacrifice their lives for the sake of their parents.

Since life comes from love, then sacrificing one's life in front of that love is a logical conclusion.

I say that this is not a contradiction. When children strive not to be indebted to their parents, the parents feel their worth.


If a parent has to discipline their child with a stick using their loving hands, they cry loudly after spanking their child. Would the child fight back and curse them then?

True love carries dual values in harmony.

A great mother will embrace her children while teaching them principles of becoming a person of goodness who will be able to move the world and to endure any difficulties they encounter.

This type of mother penetrates the heavenly principle.

That kind of goodness never perishes.

You give birth to a child, give your milk and think they are cute.  But because of whom do you adore your child?

You should adore your child on the behalf of heaven and earth and on the account of the nation, world and God.

The power of heavenly fortune in accordance with God's love is moving beyond the world to embrace heaven and earth.

A mother should embrace and breastfeed her sons and daughters with the eager heart that she is embracing God's beloved sons and daughters on behalf of heaven and earth.

Parental love is the basis of a child's pride and happiness. 

Children receive life from their parents who have created harmonious oneness in true love.

They want to be raised in such a love.

The most precious responsibility that parents have toward children is not to raise them externally, but to give them life elements of true love that will make their spirituality complete.

No matter how much a father loves his child, his love cannot match the mothers' love.

Why is this?

This is because the mother has devoted herself, even her body, suffered more for the sake of her child. Hence, we can say that she is more loving than anyone else.

In this sense, women have an elevated and precious position in the arena of emotions.

A father cannot know love to that degree that the mother has no matter how much he loves his baby.  For this reason, if anyone goes to heaven, women will go to the heavenly kingdom of heart.  From this standpoint, it is not bad to be born a woman.

You will come to see God is fair!

The way of true children is filial piety

When you come to know your parents, what do you do you need to do for them?

You should have filial piety in return.

Also, by going beyond your parents, you should become patriots in your nation, because your parents have had authority within the nation and the world.

Before you can become a patriot, you must first set the standard by becoming children of filial piety before your parents.

Before you can become a child of filial piety, you should be a member of the family who is proud of true brothers and sisters.

The term "family member" is a title that brings the right to sing the praises of your brothers and sisters.

A child of filial piety is precious because he respects and serves his parents with unchanging love whether he is in childhood, an adult or in old age.  We call such a person a child of filial piety.

How do you become a child of filial piety?

You must align yourself with the direction of your parents' heart.

One who walks this path does not do things separately from his parents.  When his parents go east, he should go east, and when they go west, he should go west.

There so be no question or debate about it.

Even if you are told to go a certain way and are told to turn back ten times, you should again turn back and follow your parents.

In your family, you are asked to offer your filial duty.

This requires that you become a fellow traveler on the path of love your parents walk, centering on your parents.

The parents' path of true love follows along with the heavenly principles.

It is not that just the parents standing by themselves, but there are invisible, vertical heavenly principles that are connected to them and work through them.

Thus, pushing you to be one with your parents is to ask you to follow the way which connects the realms of heart with the tides of history.

This is the reason why you fulfill your duty of filial piety toward your parents.

This path is also connected to the patriot, like the shoot of the bamboo.

What should patriots who faithfully serve their country do? They should walk the path of saints for the world.

If you are unable to fulfill your duty as a filial child, but you manage to become a patriot in your country, your parents will be able to say job well done.

Even if you have abandoned your parents and left home, if you become a patriot to your nation, your mother and father, even though they may have died and gone to spirit world, will praise you saying you have done extremely well.

What is a child of filial piety?

He is a person who takes responsibility for the parents' sorrow by seeking out the difficult places and fulfills his responsibility.  Thereby, he brings joy to his parents.

If the parents have done ten loads of work and the child has made effort to do fifteen loads, the parents will feel joy that corresponds to five loads.

The one who makes effort by serving the parents and thinking how to fulfill such an amount is a child of filial piety.  that knows no limits because they love their children eternally.  Then what are genuine children like?

Genuine children are the ones who reciprocate the love of their parents eternally with a loving heart which overflows with love.  This is the way of a child of filial piety.

If God needs something from His children, what would that be?

Is it for them to make a lot of money and become millionaires?  Is it to be president while holding the most power in the country?

What God wanted from Adam and Eve was for them to grow up and be children of filial piety, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters.

Have you ever thought that you should be a filial child in the family, to become a patriot in the nation, to become a saint in the world, or a divine son or daughter before heaven and earth in accordance with God's own thinking?

When you look from the viewpoint of history, all of the saints have taught about becoming such children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters.

When children grow up in the tradition of love, do you think they could be indifferent if their parents wanted a divorce?

Absolutely not.

The children would insist, "I am your child, I am the one with whom you are combined.  You have to make whatever negotiation necessary, and you have to be great parents for me.  I need you."

We must make young people and parents awaken to the fact that because of their children, parents have no right to divorce.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, True Love Chapter Two, Section 6

Family Was Created as Good Place

Family was created to be a good place.  Do you feel this is true about your own family situation?  If not, it is due to the problems of the first human family that did not follow the will of God.  

Originally, God a good purpose for the world to begin based on the love shared between the family members of Adam and Eve. 

Why is it good?  It is a good place because my mother and father are there.  It is a good place because my siblings are there.  It is good because my relatives are there.

Thus, human beings feel nostalgia when they think of the original hometown where they grew up.
Isn't it true that they have more great feelings about their hometown then they do for their own nation?

It is a place everyone longs for even if they lived in a humble community.

What place do you long for even though you are living in a large city?  It is your hometown.



The Family is Our Eternal Original Hometown


What kind of place is your hometown?

It is where your heart is lifted up in four directions and three dimensions.

This heart is a place where you are tied up by love.

Upward, your mother and father tie you up; left and right, the bond between husband and wife is tying you up; downward, your sons and daughters and relatives are tying you up tight with three dimensional love.  This is the original hometown.

No matter what position they enjoy in the world, no one cannot help but to long for their original hometown.  Why?

Everyone longs for their hometown, because they see it as the original point of happiness based on love as the best.

Then where is God's original hometown?  It is earth.

If God is the God of love, He surely would have prepared a starting point for living on this earth. Where is it?

Where is the starting point where God's family can be created?  It is none other than the place where a son dwells who understands God as his real father.

The original hometown exists where the son can monopolize God's love.

It is also a place where such a daughter dwells.  It is a place where such a true son and daughter marry and form a complete family.

Who should be in this original hometown?  Those you miss should reside there.

Your parents, brothers and sisters should be there.  Those who you long to meet should be there.  When you miss someone and want to live with them, would you be satisfied to see them for just a moment?

Would you just visit for a short time?

When you meet and live with them, you should never tire even if you live with them for eternity.  You should find such a place.  This becomes the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth which today's religion pursues.

The reason why we long for such an original hometown, today, is that is where parents, brothers and sisters, and relatives, who are closer to us than anyone else.

They always guide us, welcome us as they did in the past whenever we visit them.

They sympathize with us, console us and receive us with joy when we are having difficulties.

If you do not receive this kind of welcome, even if you longed for your hometown, your desperate, longing heart would vanish.  You would go back to those feelings of deep regret.

Your original hometown has to have people who will welcome you.

The Family Is the Final Standard for the Cosmos-centered Ideology

Everything can be dived from one into many parts, which then eventually merge into a larger whole.  In other words, one divides into many and then unites again into one.

From here it divides again and becomes something even larger.

Families exist within this larger created object.  These families all have the same form as the other.

This is the place where the husband and wife relationship is established and the couple unites.  The tribe is a place that unites families.

Race is a place that unites clans.  Races combine to form one nation.  Here, families play the central role.

Once the family expands, this becomes the horizontal world.  This is why a society cannot manage without the family.

Therefore, if families cannot be restored, the world cannot be restored.  

Next, we must realize the cosmos-centered ideal through these families.

This seems far-fetched to think of the cosmos, but in the original world, once humanity had completely united with God, we would have had the knowledge to explore the whole of the universe.

As we are fallen, we are limited to the earthly plane with limited knowledge of the universe.

The word 'cosmos' combines heaven and earth.  Heaven and earth are likened to a person's mind and body.  Thus, the mind and body must become one.

Just as a subject partner needs an object, a man needs a woman.  This union of man and woman leads to a family.  God's foundation of love will not be attained without working through this family.

Cosmos-centered ideology is a philosophy that unites the mind and body and forms a family as the main body of love, and connects that idea to the spirit world and physical world.

In Korean 'cosmos' is translated into the character ju of cheonju which means house.  This is why we use the term cosmos-centered.  Cosmos combines the spirit world and the physical world.

What relationship does it have with us?

We all need a family.  If you are unable to become one in your family, you will have nothing to do with the cosmos-centered ideology.  The family is the final standard for completing this ideology.

Those who are unable to sing songs of peace and sing songs of praise for happiness while here, will be miserable people either on earth or once they pass into spirit world.

Where do you think the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth begins?

It is realized from our relationships within the family.

Then what kind of ideology do we have? This is a family-centered ideology. The word cosmos-ism in Korean contains the word heaven and the word house.  So this word means heaven's house.

This is where the word cosmos becomes clear.

If you examine closely, all of the sixty-six books of the Bible are filled with words that desire an ideal family.

Furthermore, what do all men desire?  It is to have an ideal wife.  Also, all women desire to have an ideal husband. 

No matter if she is very famous, proud and rich or a woman who has a doctorate, her desire is to meet an ideal man she can love and with whom she can have beloved sons and daughters.

This is the root of happiness.

The beginning is the family and the conclusion is the family.

So, what exactly is this cosmos-centered ideology?

It is the ideology of our house, our nation and of your individual self which makes up part of the cosmos.

If humanity had not fallen, we would live centered on the Adam-centered ideology based on a perfected Adam who laid down the true family tradition as the first parent.  This was God's original ideal for Adam to reach perfection, not for him to fall laying a tradition for sin.

Therefore it is the true parent-centered ideology.  

This ideology is the way of a true father and true mother.  There is no other ideology that is higher than this.

We should link the matters of the heart with heavenly ideology through the way of true parents within the boundary of the original ideal family.

As long as families that have been able to live this way of life of a true family remains, we will not perish.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook,  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, true Family Chapter 3

Victory for True Love

Love. How do you define love?  Doesn't everyone have their own idea of what true love is?  Even all the movies and story books have their own version of what is a fairy tale romance.

Is love like a commander who calls others to come to his side while he just stand there and give directions?

Love is the positive power to influence other people without your having to say anything to them

Any influential movement or new ideology does not motivate people with position, power or knowledge.  It may make people interested in the beginning, but there is some other power there that motivates them.

Our motto in the Unification movement is "To have Father's heart, go forth in a servant's shoes, and to shed tears for all mankind, blood for Heaven, and sweat for Earth".

What does that really mean?

This is the place where others sacrifice themselves for the sake of other people and erect the world of God's will.  The will is to build the Heavenly Kingdom on Earth as citizens to spread Heaven's blessings to others.

"To sacrifice yourself" can be explained in three key points:

You must work more than anyone else.  When you eat and wear clothes, you must use humbler things than others.  And when it comes to shelter, you must live in a more humble place than anyone else.  When you behave in this way, no one will complain against you.

You will then be able to have a heart-to-heart in oneness with others as they come to you.  Other people around you will see that you live in such a low place and will want you to live in a better place, wear better clothes and have better things.

"In our movement, many races and many nationalities are being melted together into strong oneness. If we are successful in this it means that we are going to be successful in making the world like that. The boundary point of our success or victory is the church.


If you have created oneness between your mind and body on the individual level, and husband and wife have unity on the family level, and then we make unity on the church level, and societal, national, and world-wide levels, there will be no human being on the face of the Earth who would object to our movement. If you can play the role of a central figure in our church, you are going to be one in society."

Rev. Sun Myung Moon



After you accomplish this, you can influence the nation.  In the movement, the first three stages of individual, family and church are important.  You have to make these three stage into one in order to be successful in the mission.  If a family consist of two different religions, it will be difficult for them to unite.  Either one of them must give in to the other in order to have one faith in the family.

The Unification Church would have more people interested if the members are strongly united into one.  A black member should feel they represent all the black race on Earth.  A white member must think he represents the whole race of whites and the yellow think they represent the whole yellow race.

You must think that our church is the extended form of Adam's family: Adam and Eve and their three children and their spouses, eight. Noah's family also had eight members. In Noah's family, Shem represented the yellow race, Ham represented the black race, and Japheth represented the white race. It is in accordance with the Principle that the third son was more blessed than the others. But it was not for the sake of the third son alone that God blessed him.

God blessed the third one not for his own sake, but for the sake of the two other sons.  Therefore, he was in the position to help his two brothers.  Likewise, people of the white race will lose the blessing if they forget their mission of helping underprivileged people or other races.  To return to God, you must be reconciled with other races.  After being united into one, you can go back to God.

Adam and Eve went against God's will when they fell.  In Adam's family, Cain and Abel failed God's will when they were not able to reunite.  Also in Noah's family when the brothers were not united they went against God's will.  During the course of restoration, members must become one with other races and brothers and sisters in the group.

The best team for a mission will comprise different races united into one.  God would gladly accept such a beautiful team of brothers and sisters.  He would abide with them and would be able to erect the Kingdom of God through such unity.

If God exists at all, he would want the whole world like this full of families of all races which are united into one.  In the United States, there are all races of people and nationalities.  With this kind of foundation, all problems can be solved.  The problem of God, the relationship between God and Satan, and the problem of brotherhood and the modern way of family life.

This one goal is what all the past saints and martyrs struggled hard to realize.  In our age it is possible for unity.  

There will be many obstacles and difficulties ahead that must be overcome.

There is a secret to overcoming the situation: first, understand each other; secondly, be patient until the goal is obtained.  Husband and wife at the core of the family life are united into one despite encountering many obstacles and difficulties.  This symbolizes that it is possible to unite the whole clan, society, nation and world.  Your efforts should be on concentrating on making your home unified with a beautiful stronghold of unity in love.

The Communist strategy is like Satan's.  The goal is to cause disunity in the nation with fights among black and white people.  They use the dialectic method to prove that capitalistic society will collapse.

We prove to them that the world of love is possible, because in the movement, all the races and nationalities are united into one which is expanding to the worldwide scale.

The Communist society uses an ideology where there is always a constant struggle as long as there is a distinction of class of people.  The Godly ideology does not differentiate between the classes or races - only the relationship of parents and children and there will not be any discrimination between parents and children.

The ideology that will be able to fight against Communism atheist views is the concept of one huge family under God as our Parent.  The Communist will not be able to shatter that philosophy because it is already united into one with divine love as its binding force.

Before you see yourselves as being black, whites and yellows, you see yourselves as brothers and sisters under one Parent.

This ideology will become the norm recreating the Christian society.  By expanding the movement, this ideology will influence people in every field of life and before long, people will envy it and be interested in the movement. If they are influenced and practice this type of ideology, this foundation will expand and change the whole world.

Let us come to the conclusion now. Can we be victors on the individual level? Can we establish the norm on the family level? Can we establish it on the church level? Can we establish it and be recognized by the people on the societal level?

If so, you are going to be recognized by the people of the whole world, and by God too.

Starting on the individual level to the level of family, nation and world, those who are resolved to finish the job without wasting a moment, that is the point where they become victors at every turn.

At every moment you must be thinking of the salvation of the whole world. 

It is more difficult to have a victory of this kind on the family level than it was on the individual level because the whole family must be united.  It is more difficult to have such victories on the church level than on the family level as well as on the societal level is harder than the church level.  Yet, you must not be contented and stop at any of these levels.  Satan will test you on the individual level first, then on the family level, the church level, and the societal level.

Could you stand on your own on the individual level and take responsibility for the nation of America?  What about the family level?  It is not as easy as it sounds.  In order to succeed on the family level, you would have to double or triple your effort.

In order to remake this society and recreate the nation, you must be first successful on the family level and expand that foundation.  Before success on the family level, you must make yourself a success on the individual level.

You must always remember that from moment to moment we are always on the battlefield on this providential frontline. We are always on the battlefield. Every motion, expression and utterance every moment of our lives is the boundary point of our victory. We are a husband and wife ready for the battle in the unit of our family; our church is ready for the battle, our nation is ready for the battle, until we win the whole world.

To have victory in battle, we must first be united into one.



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This post was rewritten from the speech The Boundary Point of Victory.