God is God for a Reason

Once you possess the true love of God, you will be the focus of the world wherever you go. I am intently pushing you out so that you can quickly become the focus of the world.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Through this work of restoring the world back to God's original ideal of heaven on earth, you will come to experience how much God has suffered in restoring mankind.

We must understand how much more difficulty God has experienced on this path than any man in history.

If it was up to you and you had the power of the Almighty God, you would have used your power to crush this evil world a long time ago.

We know we should be patient, no matter how long restoration takes.

Our weapon and tool is education.  So, instead of destroying people, we will raise them up through teaching them God's divine plan in the Principle.


God saw and heard much wickedness over these thousands of years, yet He has been patient. By the same token, you have to be able to endure the criticism of the world. We must win the love of God; only that one thing matters.

God has been the king of patience in history and so we must be princes and princesses of endurance. 

You must have infinite patience and endurance if you want to gain true love.

Just looking in history, we can feel the pain of God as He worked to bring humanity back from their fallen position.  God gave His only son who carried His blood lineage and yet the world killed him.

Still, God was patient in that time.

Father has received overwhelming criticism as he brought the truth of the Completed Testament, but he does not want to remember any of it.  Within thirty minutes, he wants to forget any accusation that comes to him.

God has endured even more heartbreaking situations and disappointments over the thousands of years of human history, but he has forgotten the evil things and remembers the good news only.

Even though walking this path of restoration is treacherous, we should always be thankful to God for the opportunity to participate in His hardship.  We get to learn His endurance He had watching humanity after the fall with hope of recovering His children back.

Just with His power alone, we can understand God and be like Him.

How much has God trusted people?

Throughout the biblical times, God placed His trust in men to fulfill their missions.  Even though many saints have failed God and were untrustworthy, God still trusted.

Without trust, there is no way God could continue the work of restoration.

How could man continue to try if God did not trust him?

Then we should learn from God this attribute.  We must learn how to trust other people even though they may fail us a thousand times.

Hasn't God done the same for you and me who are just as unreliable?  Even though they may still lie to you, trust them, even though they may cause you pain, still trust them.

We should thank God that we can participate in this dispensation with Him in trusting us unconditionally, even though we have been untrustworthy.  When we come across a difficult person, we should be thankful for the opportunity to practice His trust.

God wants so much to love man that He gives everything unconditionally.

When God sees a person who practices this way of life of trusting while living in hard circumstances, He would want to give that person mercy.  Then, you win God's heart and He will shower His mercy and grace onto you.

When you witness to your area, you will be persecuted many times.  There will be a record of your persecutions you faced, but God will comfort you and be right there with you.

Persecution is a necessary ingredient.

After you receive a lot of persecution, you may return to the church center feeling down and depressed.  Instead, you should feel jubilant and honored for what the people have given you in that day.

While you endure hostility, you are becoming a universal person.  You will be able to go to any hot, cold, high and low places and be welcomed there.  In this way you become a central point.

In home church you are persecuted many times.

Your roster will be your record of persecution, but God will comfort you and be right there with you. Persecution is a necessary ingredient. In many cases when your people are rude and curse you, you come back to the center feeling depressed. But instead you should be jubilant over what they have given you that day.


When I leave New York to go abroad, you feel America is empty because the focus of love is temporarily away. I am always trying to be the focus of your love and I always focus my love upon you. This is why I am generous with you and forgive you all the time, giving you another chance and trusting you.



The twelve months comprises of one circle of seasons.

There is always balance there, with six months up and six months down, six months left and six months right. One spot is hot and the other is cold.  Each season reaches a peak before it changes.  You shouldn't desire only spring, or only hot weather.

Of course, most people do not like winter, but you still have to live through that season whether you dislike it.

Judas Iscariot and at least three disciples helped him to betray Jesus; this betrayal is the equivalent to the three months of winter.  In order to welcome spring,  you must pass through winter.  Winter is an essential time because nothing can be prepared fir the spring without it.

When water freezes it expands and through that process the hard shell of a seed bursts and is ready for spring.

God is truly a great scientist. 

When you see isolated pictures of the creation, you don't understand the greatness of the whole picture.  But by seeing the whole picture, you see the wisdom and necessity of a season like winter.

The church is completing its winter and is welcoming spring.

Then, we will bring in the blossoms in the summer and bring the harvest in autumn.  When these seeds are harvested, we enter winter again and get ready to be tested as the cold will beat fiercely on us again.  But the life in the seed will remain intact, waiting for the spring and summer to come along.

This is how new life will come.

You are persecuted and ill-treated but the life within you has been activated, hasn't it?

After a long winter, aren't you ready to come out in spring?  Americans think that their nation will always prosper, but this is not so.  We are building up the power to survive winter as the others enjoy spring, summer and autumn.

The Unification Church is full of hope for world peace.

We must be hardened and tested in order to become a great movement.

This way, we will be strong and able to prosper anywhere in the world.  In order to stay healthy, you must be able to live in and enjoy all of the seasons.

You should also be able to serve all four different categories of people:  spring, summer autumn and winter.

You need all four kinds of people, just as you need all four seasons.

This is why Jesus selected twelve disciples which were all very different.  Jesus was able to focus his love among each person and they were able to become one united group.  You as well should be able to focus on and serve 12 different people in harmony.

In one day, we can experience four seasons: morning is like spring, daytime is like summer, evening is like autumn and night time is like winter.  In order to make a full circle, you should move both up and down.

You cannot just go one way.

We should have the ability to know both up and down position.  God does both.  Satan only knows how to go up, but he ultimately falls all the way down.

When you go through suffering, do not think that this is the end or that you will be destroyed.  As much have you have fallen down, you can come up again that much higher.  This is the method God teaches us.

Working together with those in spirit world, we will focus on the eternal love of God.  In this movement, we possess the true love of God, therefore, we have a tremendous capacity.  We are able to focus ourselves no matter where we are because of this love.

Those who see us in this movement as doing wrong will change their focus when they see we are headed in the right direction.

If you totally serve and sacrifice for others, you will become a central figure wherever you go. 

By living this way, when you reach the spirit world, you will be elevated as the central figure in heaven.  Your eyes should search for the place where people are in misery.

Your thinking should point toward a way to liberate people out of hell. Your ears should change the sad sounds of hell into good.  Then your mouth should speak only glad words of salvation.

Look at everything in the world through God's parental eyes.  If you are able to do that, you will become a victorious person who is approved by as God's true son or daughter.

This task is more urgent than anything else.  You should get to the point that while doing this work, that you forget about time, the calendar or whether it is night or day.

Therefore, be proud of being persecuted.

When you have to do this work through a harsh wind and cold, wet rain, be proud of it.  When you have to do it with your shoes broken, be proud of it.  When you meet someone along the way who curses you, be proud of it.

Since you are like God and like Father, your worst worry is that people will ignore you.

If you can say that you will go this hard way without fail, pledge by raising your hands, please.  Thank you, and God bless you.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Does God Need True Love?

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Heaven and Us.

Persecution Brings Blessing, Endure

If a person is willing to give you everything he owns. then we can say he obeys and follows you. Religion has been teaching people to have this quality: to follow and obey. 

Every major religion had a small beginning, but enlarged to their current large foundation.

God planned to bring the Messiah on the foundation of religion and deal with people on the national level, not on the individual level.

This was the foundation He laid for Jesus in the Old Testament times with people of faith.

If the Jews had united with Jesus, they would have had a foundation strong enough to bring the Roman Empire down during the lifetime of Jesus.  There would have not been a need for 400 years of Christian persecution.

If the Jews were willing to offer themselves as a offering living for Jesus, then it would not have been difficult for the empire to fall through Jesus' strong foundation upon his believers.

Religious leaders must know that they are only managers until the Messiah, the true master comes.

This is where most religious leaders go wrong.  They believe that they are the central figures, the boss.

This is the same pattern that Satan followed in the act of the fall.

Everything in creation belonged to God, but someone else tried to make it his own.  We are enjoying the time in history when everything must return back to God or God's representative.

What happens if a leader says that his group belongs to him ?

No matter who it is, it is repeating the same mistake Satan made when he claimed God's creation as his own in front of Adam and Eve.  He was a servant who was to teach Adam and Eve, but instead he saw that they were going to be the true owners of creation along with God.  Satan desired to remain in the position he had in the angelic world and in front of Adam and Eve as they were maturing.

The true way of the religious way of life of "obey and follow" is difficult.  You may have worked hard all of your life, but if God wants to take it away for the purpose of the world, you have to give it gladly even though it may be hard to do.

Then, when God gives you the blessing, you will give them out again.

When man is obedient and follows, no persecution is necessary. 

But usually, for restoration, God has to let good people be persecuted.  When they overcome, He will be able to share the blessing with them.  This is the less desired way.  God lets Satan strike His side first, then God recovers all the blessings that Satan stole.


If a minister is appointed to a church but he does not do his job, he is fired. The minister's authority comes back to the person who appointed him, who can then give it to someone else. 


If on the other hand, man is obedient, then God will get everything back.  If man is disobedient, then Satan will be allowed to persecute people and then God can bring the blessing back after the person overcomes in victory.  If Christian countries, for instance, had been obedient to God then the ideal solution could have come easily.

But, Christians disobeyed God and fought each other and segregated into different denominations.  God wants those nations to transfer everything they own to the Messiah at his Second Coming.

Even with religious training, it is very difficult for man to be obedient to God's will.  Therefore, it is inevitable that he will be surrounded by struggle and persecution.

Adam, the first parent, was not obedient to God.  The chosen people of Israel did not follow Jesus, so God let them strike Jesus, but then He took back their blessing.  Israel recently received liberation in 1960.  The same will happen at the Second Coming.  This pattern recurs throughout history, from the individual to the world level.

If the one on the world level is not obedient toward God, there is a big struggle on the world level.  This struggle was evident in the 20th century.    On each level from the individual level to the world level, man and all things will form a bridge to the goal.

The world of communism also follow this pattern, but they follow it in the opposite direction.  The communist world claims to work for unification of the world, but they try to do so through gunpoint

The free world liberates man.

Within the free world, Christianity has become confused.  In the free world, contradiction prevails in America.  Korea depends on America to fulfill its mission so that Korea can also do its job.

We have to stop the communist movement, which is bent on destruction of the free world.

If we were to ask who is the leader of all the free world.  No one would be able to give you an answer.  This same question is given by those of the communist world, there is not a central point to unite all of the free world under one.

The movement that sacrifices these levels for ultimately to return the world to God, will become the leader under the banner of the whole world.

A new religion has occurred that has been the underdog, but we must assume our responsibility.

Because the members are persecuted, God has brought all blessings back to His side.  God has a heavy bag of blessings that He is ready to give out.  The movement will set the example and show us the solution.

All of us are a pipeline for God's blessing to flow to the world.

You have a basic understanding of history and mankind.

You have been given a precise explanation of history and where we are at this time. and now you know what you have to do every day. You must realize your position today.

All of us are a pipeline for God's blessing to flow to the world. You couldn't do that ten years ago; only this year could this be said. Is this a fairy tale, or is it logical and precise?

You have to become an atomic bomb of love wherever you go.  

By following this absolute, true way, you will become victors of love.

Satan tries to kill those who work for the dispensation because he knows that his reign will end.    One should feel that they can not stop because they are doing their mission for the world.    Satan will anticipate your next move, just so he can block it.

Today, the major battles are won in the free world.

If every family that practices a certain faith, and carry the tradition, will realize what is the true way of life and they will gradually begin to change.  When the media exposes the deception of communism, all of the other countries, America can be strong, then the communist will inevitably decline from that point on.

Then, the other countries will understand what is the true way of life and they will gradually begin to change.

We are living in a time where artist have a large influence on the world.

It is a good thing that this movement has been persecuted, because it will keep us on the path.  Your desire to witness and save your lost brothers and sisters is stronger than the taunts of your persecutors.

You should determine to work harder than you have been persecuted.  Now, that the foundation has been laid strong opposition is over.  We should basically work hard to love and educate those who persecute us.  Offer everything we have and surpass the standard of the persecution.

We are living at a time of crossroads where we are headed in this heavenly direction.  There should be no more persecution.  It is now like the time after winter passes and the cold still lingers in the air when spring arrives.

When doing your mission, you should determine to work harder than you have been persecuted.  Now that the foundation has been laid.

You may be persecuted initially, but once people see that you have a goal that reaches beyond yourself, they will respond favorably.

We have been persecuted because God wanted to bring all blessings back to His side again.  Now, God is giving the blessing to us on every level.

Fortunately, we are living in the age of information traveling all around the world without delay.  If the information of the Completed Testament could be broadcast internationally, people will be amazed at the knowledge.

Like the Bible states that in the Last Days, God would reveal everything, from now on everything will be clear and visible.

Like the Messiah, you should be like a rock, straight and firm, nothing like a new sapling that sways in the strong winds.  Stand strong.  You should each go out on your mission with a brave heart and with confidence, and know that you do not go it alone.  God will be right behind you.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Persecution and Blessing