Men, Women Misuse Love Root of Evil

When we look at the situation in the world and all of the problems, we realize that they all stem from men and women problems!  When men and women can mutually come together, all problems can be solved easily.

How is it that this could be the answer to all problems?

If we look backwards from a nation, a nation is made up of a society.  Well, you can't have a society without families.  Families begin with a man and woman coming together to produce children. 

The lack of unity within one family creates problems which are spread into society and throughout the world.  Man and woman cannot live emotionally well without each other.

For one to live well they need to gain knowledge to learn how to live and they need emotion which triggers happiness.

Which quality is more important - emotion or intellect?  After God finished each day of creation, He would finish by saying it was good.  This is because His emotions were stimulated and He experienced joy in seeing the completion of His ideal.  Any artist who has a plan for what they will create experiences joy to finally behold the final product and share it with the world.

"All the problems of the World will end when men and women come to together in harmony. Problems cannot be resolved on the world level or through social programs. It is the family problem that needs to be resolved. If that is accomplished all "world problems" and "social problems" will be resolved." SMM

We see that revolutions arise to improve a society's situation, but in the case of the realm of Heart, there cannot be a revolution.  True love is unchanging. 

What makes a family happy?  When every member is united in heart.  The family's emotional state is important for a happy society.


Mind And Body Problems

You cannot establish World Peace by force. World Peace starts in the family. In your own family you can see many problems. Beginning with the Grand Parents, the Parents and all relatives we can recognize that all have individual problems. All these problems relate back to the lack of mind and body unity centered on God.

What will bring about World Peace?  Can war solve all the world's problems?  Dictators of Communist countries believe forcing their citizens to obey their laws brings unity of a nation.  

World Peace will never be established by force. 

Where is the beginning point of World Peace: in your own family, where you see many problems.  The individual problems of a family stem from the grandparents and can be recognized through observing the parents and all relatives.

Which problem is found in every family member?  Everything relates to the mind and body problem. The problem of the struggle between the Godly mind and the satanic body.  This is true for the husband's side and the wife's side of the family totaling 16 people with this inherited problem of the fall. 

Even if one individual person was to eradicate sin, such as Jesus, it cannot bring World Peace.

World of Peace

Why did God not create a world full of love without sin?  One must first understand the deeper context of the Fall of Man in order to see why God cannot not stop sin. 

All problems in the world begin with you, I and me!  I must resolve my individual problem first before I begin a family.

People who say, "I'll do whatever I want as long as it does not hurt anybody, it's okay".  This is not freedom.  There is no freedom unless the Mind and the Body are united.  If a person thinks they are free by being loose, just freely having sex with several partners a week, living only for themselves, or obeying every pleasure the bodies wish, freedom laughs at such a person.  This person thinks rules belong to the others.

 "A building can only be built on plain level ground. When your mind is always fighting your body, you are up and down and go through peaks and valleys. This takes much of your energy and you can not build a proper life for yourself. Because you are constantly fighting a war there is no motivation to do anything else."

After women shouted for equal rights and freedoms, they always say that they are higher than men.  Women who continue this way cannot progress.
 

Abide By Natural Law

If women are on top of men, it is against the Principle.  Women have switched positions and dominate the husband and the family.  Society must correct this trend, it cannot be ignored.  We must abide by the natural law before we can prosper.

What would the world be like if it was made up of only men and no women?  Many men would not want to walk the street at night out of fear.  What if it was made of only women?  The gossiping and rumors would be out of control! A world without either men and women would be a world of chaos.

Love Order

The world comes into order because, everyone goes home at night because of love of a man or woman.  If there are a million men in love with a million women, there is no problem no matter how many men and and women in love are out on the street.

The reason for marriage is to set up a prototype for God.  God needs a perfect individual then a perfect family in which He can directly relate.  There can only be one such family, if there are two prototypes for a family, this means one of them is false.

"God must have a man and woman prototype. Man represents Heaven and woman represents Earth. Earth and Heaven can come together into unity when man and woman who both have united mind and body come together. That will create True Peace."

 The same is true for man.  First, every individual should obtain mind and body unity.  It is not good for a woman to go to her husband to find unity of mind and body.



Which Woman Here Is Perfect?

Who has ever met a perfect woman.  Everyone has met a woman who believed she was perfect, correct?  Even though no woman has become perfect based on God's ideal, people claim 'my' children, 'my' husband without being the standard of a True Mother or wife.

Satan came and destroyed the standard of families and made the whole world hell.  Now, we are living in the time where everything will be restored.  It is God's time.

The whole established world is our enemy. Immorality, homosexuality and incest is destroying America. Love and Emotion have become degraded because of free sex. Emotions have been completely wiped out. That is why there is wide spread alcohol and drug abuse. If you use drugs, you are like a car that is being crushed. People do not even know that satan is behind all of their activity and believe they are practicing freedom..

AIDS can be good if it discourages free sex.  There is wide spread individualism in this nation. Individualism means that I do not need my grand parents, parents, clan, nation and world. After a while suicide will be the only way out.

The Second Coming restores the first parents mistake by becoming True Parents.  True Paremts reveals satan's work throughout history.  Those who oppose satan in these last days must be on God's side.  Satan works through communism and must follow the Messiah.  The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth begins when the  Messiah sets this standard for man.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Cooperation of True Husband and Wife


This text was rewritten and derived from the textbook: New Families and the Completed Testament based upon the Divine Principle authored by Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

How to Love With God's Heart

 “Above all else, guard your heart,” says the proverb, “for it is the wellspring of life” (Proverbs 4.23).

"In any case, the heart, like a garden, needs protection and cultivation if it is to flourish and break through the forces that warp and distort its impulses."

What does it mean to "keep the heart"?  It means to keep your heart pure and polished.  How?  through cutting through the ego, pride, misperceptions and distortions that cover our hearts. 

How can we purify our hearts and delve into the intrinsically good and pure heart that mirrors the heart of the Creator, our heavenly Father?

The Heart of God

Dr. Martin Luther King said, “At the heart of reality, there is a Heart.”

Behind the human heart, of course, is the divine heavenly Heart.

God’s Heart is the wellspring of His love, the core of His being. This heart impels Him to live for the sake of His children and creation.  What may not be known about God's awesome might and majesty is a fierce concern, intense sensitivity, and incomparable tenderness.  God is the king of love.
 

“Can God enjoy His life without love?” asks Reverend Moon. “No. However omniscient or omnipotent He may be, by Himself alone, He cannot enjoy happiness . . . You say you are happy because you have your parents, your husband or wife, your sweetheart. You say to someone, ‘I am happy because I have you with me . . .’ If that is true with human beings, the same applies to God.”

Jesus addressed his Lord and Creator as “Abba”—Papa (Mark 14.36).
 

More than the most devoted of earthly parents, the Heavenly Father is so passionately concerned with every single one of His children, that no one’s gladness or distress escapes His notice.

“Not one [sparrow] is forgotten before God,” we are assured, and surely each person is “worth more than many sparrows” (Luke 12.6-7).

God's heart works in relation to a partner and it does not stand to be apart or enjoy isolation.  Who can stand as God's true object partner in relation to His heart?

Philosopher Abraham Heschel speaks of a Lord passionately and personally involved with His people. The Bible has the Creator as affected by humanity as a man is by his wife (Hosea and Jeremiah 3.20).

 

God’s heart shapes His ideal, what religious traditions have called the Kingdom of Heaven, the World to Come, the Golden Age.  It is the place where “The dwelling of God is with men,” (Revelation 21.3) as He intended. Intimacy with one’s children, grandchildren and great grandchildren—does any parent desire anything more? In the same way, God’s heart wants eternal closeness with each of His children.

This parental heart means no one is outside its reach. God's grace falls like rain on the worthy and unworthy alike. There are no limits to this love; no sacrifice is too great. He “so loved the world” that He would offer everything He has, even His most beloved Son (John 3.16) that “not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” and be saved (2 Peter 3.9). “Turn to me and be saved,” He cries through the prophet Isaiah, “all you ends of the earth!” (45.22-23).

Indeed, this is a defining characteristic of God’s Heart—no one is outside it. Even those who disobey Him, reject Him or even seek to destroy everything He holds dear are not excluded. His wrath and judgment are ultimately for the purpose of reconciliation, of being together with His children.

Thus there is Jesus’ saying to “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,” in imitation of the Creator's characteristics (Matthew 5.44). As Reverend Moon has said, no matter what state human beings are in, “God cannot but love man. You can be so confident as to say, without you, God cannot be happy.”

The impulse to seek joy through loving is too strong for any permanent rejection or estrangement between the Father and any of His children.

God's Heart has three aspects; One is joy, the spirit in which He created the universe.  This is reflected in the infinite varieties of the beauties that make up the creation.  During the creation process, the divine imagination was animated with gladness.


“It was good,” He said of His creation (Genesis 1.10). He was especially joyful in anticipation of sharing His life with responsive children and having them delight in the creation He had made. When human parents happily prepare a nursery and then tearfully welcome a new child into the world, they taste something of God’s heart of joy at the creation.

The Heart of God is the ultimate counterpart to the human heart, and deeper and wider than our own and overflowing with the purest, most profound love. Only His heart so fully, in the words of Blaise Pascal, “fills the soul and heart which He possesses" ... it alone has the capacity to completely stimulate every part of us.

 

Those privileged to have tasted of its fullness have described its intoxicating rapture.

 

“Once the heart of God dwells within you, no matter how lonely you may be you will be filled and the universe will be filled,” states Reverend Moon. “Such a person is infinitely joyful, lacking nothing.”

 

“Ah, my Lord God,” wrote Thomas à Kempis, in, “most faithful lover, when Thou comes into my heart, all that is within me rejoices!”

This is the ultimate happiness and the essence of Heaven. It has been called paradise, nirvana, bliss. Whatever it is called, it is ineffably good and satisfying— an oasis in the desert to the thirsting human heart.

Aspects of God’s Heart
 

This is why the distance from Him that has been the human condition throughout the ages leaves such an ache and restlessness.

As the psalmist expressed it: “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night” (42.1-3). Conversely, when Adam sinned, God searched for him in the Garden, calling, “Where are you?”(Genesis 3.9).  This can be views as God's pure Heart could no longer see Adam's impure heart after the fall occurred.

The fall left Heavenly Father and the earthly children in need of fulfillment having lost their "love partner" of one another.  God's heart has experienced much displeasure.  Who can look at God's situation as wonderful throughout history when one peers through the eyes of God looking upon His lost children disconnected from His heart? "The agonies of the world that burden all but the most callous of souls are."

 

Joy over the Creation Hope and Commitment to Restore the Lost Ideal Impulse to Love Sorrow Over Human Suffering

This is an important aspect of the divine heart: sorrow.

God is likened to a human parent that has to endure witnessing their children suffering through a reckless act or worse, as victims of a crime.  God's heart breaks whenever he sees the torment and misery of the world;the senselessness of war, the wretchedness of hunger and poverty, the harshness of disease, the agonies of families torn apart and the devastation of spiritual emptiness.

 “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it,” said St. Paul of the body of believers (1 Corinthians 12.26); how could the Head of the body not suffer? He agonizes with His loved ones as any of His children do with theirs.

“In all their distress, he too was distressed” (Isaiah 63.9), say the Hebrew scriptures of His relationship with His people; He “could bear Israel’s misery no longer” (Judges 10.16). He was even agonized as a mother in labor: “Now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant” (Isaiah 42.14).  Muhammad likewise felt God’s misery, saying in a Hadith, “I see what you do not see and I hear what you do not hear; heaven has groaned, and heaven has a right to groan.”

Not only does God feel the pain of every person, but this is ever amplified by His understanding of what could be, like a dreamer who is far from his ideal, His unrealized vision for the beautiful world He intended. A parent grieves even more painfully over a child’s mistakes and suffering than the child does, because the elder also knows more fully all the potential and hopes and dreams that have been lost.

God had envisioned a Heaven on Earth and higher ideal than the current situation of the world.

Besides His pain arising from compassion, God’s heart aches for the broken communion with His loved ones. He feels the pangs of joys lost, unable to fully share the lives and the loves of His myriad sons and daughters. This frustrated hope is what Asians call “han,” the basis of what theologian Andrew Sung Park calls God’s “wounded heart”.

Yes, God's heart has been broken at the disobedience and suffering of His children.
 

Scriptures reveal the pain of the Parent who has given all yet cannot connect with His children enough.  His love is largely unrequited. “The more I called Israel, the further they went from me...” (Hosea 11.2). This Hebrew verse captures the poignant lament of a heartbroken Father.

"How often I have longed to gather your children together,” He confesses to a rebellious world, “as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing” (Matthew 23.37).

The parent is willing to give without end for the sake of her child, but joy is incomplete when love is not returned. Indeed, He is described as “grieved” over the wickedness and faithlessness of His children (Genesis 6.5-6).

A Christian from California recounts I’ve never really been very good at sharing my faith with people. Then one day I was walking down the street in Berkeley, California, and I saw this big poster of a missing child. 

That poster seemed to speak to me. I realized that God is missing all kinds of children. Day after day, He watches His children killing each other, robbing each other, crumbling down in loneliness and then going to hell. When I thought how I’d run around searching if my own child was missing, I realized I had to testify to my faith with more fervor to help God find His missing children.
 

God is the fountain of hope. This is the third primary aspect of God’s Heart—there is hope that God's ideal which was lost in the beginning can be restored.

This hope gives power to overcome the sorrow, disappointment, and grief.  This force sustains His awesome perseverance, which has been laboring painstakingly and patiently through His representative for the day of the great homecoming.

He fervently seeks among the multitudes of every child who does not know Him. The Bible offers metaphors for the almighty Lord of the universe.

One is the image of a poor woman desperately searching for a lost coin (Luke 15.8-10), as if the omnipotent One forgets all dignity in His urgent efforts to save His children. Another is that of a shepherd, leaving all of his flock to track down the missing one and rejoicing when it is found (Luke 15.4-7).

If a parent's child was taken captive, that parent would sacrifice and offer anything and any amount of ransom if it meant the liberation of their children held in bondage.  God does the same with more intensity using His whole heart and effort toward liberating man from the chains of ignorance and the force of selfishness.

God cannot rest until even those who have committed the most heinous of crimes repent and begin to cultivate their own hearts of original goodness which emulates God's great heart.

Maybe the best poignant image of the tender Creator is the one painted by Jesus in his story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15.11-32).  The patriarch's aching heart is revealed for his wayward son's return when he stays waiting at the window hoping for the day he returned.  The father forgets everything when he first sights his son walk back to the land and runs forward to greet him. He is beside himself with joy to have his son back, no matter what pain the young man caused. One could say the father is a willing slave to parental love.
 

Since man is made in God's image, God's heart is essentially the same. 

God has fashioned Himself to be vulnerable to His children and to be captive the the same love that captivates them.

“He is the Lord omnipotent, the Lord of all beings, the controller of all,” the Hindu scripture reads, “yet he permits himself to be controlled by those who love him” (Srimad Bhagavatam)—and by love itself.

Because of His unfailing faith in His people and His vision, God can endure the agony of seeing His faithful ones scorned and persecuted and to keep on working until every part of the original plan is realized.  This means, God will not cease His work of restoring His children and world until everyone is back into His bosom.

“He will not falter or be discouraged,” the prophet Isaiah declared, “till he establishes justice on earth” (42.4).

With the heart of the Father yet in the shoes of a servant, God perseveres to save His children, driven by His heart of hope.  The father who pays for his son’s careless damage to another person’s car, the mother who goes to the principal to ask for one more chance for her daughter, the father who stands with his boy in court and offers his own respectability as a hope for leniency, the mother who apologizes to a child her daughter has shared the sorrow of God over the misbehavior of His children.

All share the same hope: if they pay enough, pray enough, love enough, and try hard enough, eventually their children will respond to their sacrifice and love and will become responsible people in their own right. This is the hope of every parent. God, the Parent of all, is the same.

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Textbook: Educating For True Love Chapter, Foundation of Character Foundation based on the teachings of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon as more of an understanding of the Heart of God.