God is the God of Love

God's love is the source of life, the source of happiness and the source of peace.

St. Paul asked who could cut off the line of God's love within Christ.  Even Christ would not be Christ or savior without God's love.  Have you ever thought of that fact?

You can come to understand this through spiritual experiences.

God's love is stronger than the sun.  

When the sun rises in the morning the buds of plants turn toward the energy of the sun

Likewise, God's love is the source of life, the source of our original good mind, and the core source of ideal elements.  That is the way it is.

Since God is the substantial essence of love and He is the central being of love, He has no beginning or an end.

The world of heart enables us to experience something special that we can be proud of thousands of years from now for having lived for one hour, and be proud for tens of thousands of years for having lived one day; this is true love.

Love originates from God

Our cells expand and feel even the energy of love.

The world where God's love exists is like this.

How can we describe God's love?

Imagine a warm spring day where white clouds float gently by in the sky.

On this day the air shimmers above the ground, insects, ants scurry about exploring the magnificent world.

Next to the warm flowing stream, catkins blossom and frogs sing new songs of spring welcoming swarms of bees and fluttering butterflies.

You would be enraptured in this atmosphere, a twilight state we experience right before drifting peacefully off to sleep.  Yet you wake in a happy mood rejoicing forever.

God's love has such delectable flavor.

When your ideal partner is given to you by God, you will feel as if you are born in a flower garden where butterflies and bees are busy flying flower to flower.

This makes you happy just imagining such an environment.

Maybe thickheaded men cannot understand this very well.

Love fills the place where God dwells. 

It is a place where the more you give, the more you desire to give even more.  The more you receive, the more desire you have to give ten million times what you have received.

Would this be an environment of heaven or hell?

You would feel such an explosive stimulation because the more you give, a stimulation that makes you feel as if all of your cells exploded.  God's love is like that.

What kind of being is God, who created the heaven and earth?

He is a being of the utmost goodness, the main root of all things and the subject partner of love.  This is why, after He created all things, God wanted to give all the precious things in creation to human beings.

If God had someone whom He could truly, love and entrust all His things to, He will want to hand him all of His most precious possessions.

What kind of taste would God like most?

If God could smell, hear and feel what would He like to smell, hear and feel?

There is only one thing God likes? That is love.

Only love can focus God's five senses and fill Him with joy.

If God was looking for a partner in love what part of creation would He choose?

Would he choose an animal a true?  We can conclude that it would surely be a human being.  This is why we say that among all things of the universe, human beings have the highest value.

Within God's love is parental love, conjugal love, brotherly love and children's love.  

Once it expands it also contains the love of the nation and world.  We say that God's love is parents' love, husband and wife's love, and children's love. This is the most wonderful thing that can be said.

What kind of love does God need?  Would God want absolute love or false love?

It is the same for us.  Just as God needs absolute love, unique love, unchanging love and eternal love, we also need the same.  We should resemble God.  God created because of love.

Because God created for the purpose of love, then God enjoys watching a man and woman loving each other.

Therefore, when God appears before the world of existence, He appears as the essence of love.  Just because God has been giving love to us, He can say, "I gave all of this because I love you, why don't you give back to me?"

Is God this kind of character?  God cannot assert Himself.

God has absolute love, but He is still anxious and troubled that He has not been able to give all the love He wants to give.

To give love completely, is God's purpose in creating people.

Thus, God's heart burns to pour out all of His love to the human world where He has as yet been unable to give His complete love freely.

The more we think of God, the more we feel God because He is such a God.

If God was the kind of god that demanded you give Him something back because He gave, we would not need Him.

 In giving us love, how much would God want to give?

God's love does not work according to a limit that says that a certain amount is enough.  It is a love that wants to give infinitely.  Even after giving everything, God will say, "I want to live in you because of you."

What brings this about?  It is love.

If love is present, God would be happy to live even as a servant.  The father will feel joy even if his beloved son was to climb onto the dining table and take a poop.

Love transcends the law.

There is nothing God does not have.

There is nothing He wants to keep back for Himself.  Even though He has everything, if there is something He wants to present and be proud of as being the most precious of all what would that be?

God needs only love, and nothing except love.  There is nothing He needs but love.

God said, "I am  love."  What does this mean?

It means to like love day and night, even while resting, working, dancing and crying. This is why He said, "I have love in it entirety and indicates that everything is contained therein.

God is the one who like love most.

Because God has such love, when we taste such love, we will not be able to let go of it even when we die.

What does it mean that God is the original being of life, goodness and truth?

These all have the same meaning and are indispensable.  The central core of life, original being of love and original being of truth is God.

God is the father and mother of humankind.  Maybe this is the first time that you have heard that father is both father and mother.

We only perceive God to be a male characteristic, but God has dual characteristics of both feminine and masculine qualities.  Since both men and women are made of God's image this makes sense.

God created human beings as His children to be the object partners of His love.

As He watches them grow, becoming brothers and sisters, husbands and wives and parents, God establishes Himself as the master of love at all stages.

Thus, human beings can be seen as more precious beings than God, who we enabled to be the master of love.

It is the same as you regarding someone you love as millions of times more valuable and precious than yourself.

God is the bone of love. 

You should know this simple fact.

In regard to love, God is the bone, and human love is like the flesh of the body.  The bone and the flesh become one to take shape. This is the principle operating.

Therefore what is love?

It works like a lubricant and a rail where upon everything turns.

Automobiles need oil to move, everything needs lubrication if it is to move.  Movement needs lubrication. Without love there is no lubrication.

Only love can be the lubricant for the highest joy.  It does not disappear because it is rooted in the eternal God.  Action brings progress.

God's love appears in a place that does not change because God's love is unchanging, therefore it is eternal.

If God's love appears to us, it appears on the foundation of an unchanging heart.

Thus, we should eat for the sake of love, sleep for the sake of love and act for the sake of that love for our entire life.

As long as we have an eternal and perfect standard for the sake of love, God's love will appear.

Otherwise, the public principles of this universe would all be in vain.

God is our Father.  Therefore, like an earthly father, day and night He worries that His children may be harmed.

He protects us if trouble comes, and He defends us if some opposing circumstances appear.

He is that kind of awesome parent.

Going in search of the essence of such a parent is the way of goodness and the way of love.  Human beings, as God's children, need to receive God's perfect love.

Until this point was made clear, God has given His love to those people and even tribes and nations that were nearer to His side.

He blessed them by adding things again and again unless they should think that these things were too small and not receive them.

Even this was not enough.

God even gave them the life of His beloved son whom they even rejected and sacrificed.

Even after He gave over His only son to be killed, God again wants to give even more of His love. This is why on the day when we return this love, all of heaven and earth will turn into an ideal Kingdom of Heaven.

The principle of love concedes: the more love you receive, the more love you give in return.

When we give God a hundred units of love, God will return to us a thousand, ten thousand units of love.

If all we have is the the love of God, we can remain in God's bosom, we can squeeze God's nose, we will have no boundaries wherever we go in the world.

We will have a free pass everywhere.

If you were to receive a kiss of love from God, you would feel a joy that triggers an explosion within you.

This is where God desires to be fulfilled.  God does not rejoice in having diamonds or other jewelry.

Where do God and human beings connect?

They connect where their lives, loves and ideals intersect.  That point would be the parent-child relationship.

From this point of view, then God is the subject partner of love, He is the subject partner of life, and the subject partner of the ideal.

In relation to His children, God ignores His authority and dignity.

However sinful or incompetent His children may be, if they are able to embrace Him with a repentful heart, He will not tell them to go away and stop.

Rather, He would embrace them, rub them and love them.  He would experience this to the point his bones melt.

God has the desire to give again and again unceasingly even after He has give for thousands of years. For this reason, we are looking for God.

If God was a cheap merchant who says after He gave, "Hey that will cost you this much and that much amount," we would not need such a God.

When you come into contact with God's love your hair will dance, and so will the cells of your body.

When you are a hundred percent intoxicated in this love, you will want to live forever rather than withdraw.

As the saying goes, "A saint's delight makes him forget the passage of time." There is indeed a way to become enraptured in such a high level of this kind of love beyond human imagination.

It has been said that if humanity had connected to God from the beginning and achieved perfection and carried His direct blood lineage, we would be so enraptured in love and oneness with God.  We would sing and dance wherever we went.  It would be likened to a musical where we are so intoxicated with love that we sing the words that come out of our mouths when we experience so much joy.

Love can fill anywhere, and reach everywhere. 

What happens when loving people embrace?

Do they just hold each other's hands and say, "I love you"?  Maybe they hug so strongly that their eyes pop out and water comes from both their mouth and their nose.

When they embrace, they don't just stand still, but turn around.

The universe will turn only because they are one in love like this.

God is the father of human beings, and human beings are God's sons and daughters.  We were created through God investing the core of His bone, the core of His flesh and the core of His bone marrow in their entirety.

Therefore, when we pull God, God cannot helped but to come along.  When God pulls human beings, they cannot help be pulled along.

Why do people like and follow God throughout the ages?

It is because God is the one who gives and gives again everything for thousands of years and yet He still feels ashamed that He has not given enough.  He says, "Now I can only give you this much, but wait a bit longer, and I will give you something that is many hundreds of times, thousands of times better."

This is because He is someone whose heart is not content with what He gave today, but He promises to give better things in the future.

Why do all humans seek eternal life, to live forever?

We seek an eternal partnership of love because we have the value of being God's object partner.  Because we will inevitably live eternally before the God of absolute love.

When you are able to stand in this place, God becomes you and you become God.

When we are connected to such a realm of God's love, what kind of feeling will we have. We will feel as if we were looking at the most beautiful intricate flower and smell all the fragrances in the garden.

At such a time, all the cells in our body will jump and dance in joy.

A man and woman must connect their horizontal love to God's vertical love.  They must join at a ninety-degree angle.

Any love that does not fit this will end up as a wandering love and be destroyed.

When you enter the love where these two are aligned, you will be able to rule the whole universe through this love centered on God.

When you are able to have a relationship with the whole universe, you will not need any knowledge, power, money or even life.

Life also lives within love.

God likes the love between Adam and Eve.  God wants to meet His sons and daughters and love them.  This is the final destination desired where human beings attend God as their Father and receive love as His sons and daughters.

For God, Adam is the core of Himself, and the core of the ideal love of the future.  So, Adam is God's external form or body when he is able to reach perfection.  On the other hand, Eve is God's wife and body.

Adam is a spiritual partner who relates to God's body and Eve is a physical partner.  When Adam and Eve become one as husband and wife and love each other they will share their love with God.  This marriage will be exceptionally holy.

God does not need knowledge, because He created knowledge.  Contrary to many non-believers, God does not need power, He is omnipotent, and omniscient.

He does not need money - so what does God need?

The only thing that God needs is love.

Can God create and receive love all by Himself when He is alone?

You may think that the almighty God can just receive love as He pleases but it is not like that.

Even though God is all  powerful, He needs a partner the most with whom He can give and take in love.  You have to understand this.

God's love is a wonderful flavor that combines everything.

It has a power as such that when you like it and grasp it, you can hold it without limit, and unfold it without limit.  Hence with love, you can fill everything and reach everything.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love of Husband and Wife, Flower of Universe

This post was rewritten and derived from the Book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, "True Loe" Chapter Two, section 1

Love is the Source of Peace and Happiness

The more love we have, the happier we become. Love is such that once it is in our hand; we never want to let it go.

Our human will does not govern the source of life.

Only true love can influence our motivation, our course or the end of our life.

We were born in love, therefore, we should live and die for love at the end of our lives.

What do you think the color of love would be?

Would it be a murky black color at night, white in the daytime and yellow in the evening?

The central color of love is where we will find the power to achieve peace, unity and equality for all.  However, if you happen to carelessly venture into love's most holy place, the sexual organs, then you will be judged.

When you find someone to love, your face becomes radiant. 

Only love has the power to bring such light.

Guns and threats can not bring about such beauty, only love.  What kind of love is this?

That love is true love, the love that is the owner of the universe, the center of the universe, and the original fountain of the universe.

Love is the main point of happiness.  It is the invisible order and the peace that serves the common good.  It is the common asset of all humanity and the symbol of God's will and power.

Love holds supreme value which cannot be measured.

Once you have true love, even God will follow you.

When you possess true love, the world will follow you, everyone will follow you.  Once you stand in love's place, all of creation will follow you.

True love has the power that makes you and another feel good even if you stay together forever.  

You will still feel good even though you stay together, live together, talk together, eat together and listen together.

We cannot deny that love is liked and welcomed by all people.

Everyone wants to be born, live and die surrounded by true love.  Such a person has a fulfilling life and is a happy person.

Getting a wink from a loved one can make you feel that heaven and earth were turning upside down.  If you get a smile from the one you love, then you feel all of heaven and earth and the cosmos live within your heart.

People in love become completely possessed by it.  Each word they utter will be based on the love which claims them.

Therefore, love has the power to break down all barriers which humanity builds.

If you think it is small, it is small; if you think it is big, it is big; if you think you can see it, you can see it; if you think you cannot see it, you cannot see it.  Love has a perceptive quality.

The power of love is greater and mightier than the power of an atomic bomb.

An atomic bomb only has the power to leave destruction in its path, but love has even more power to save people and give them new life.

We all dream of a world of peace, where nation is no longer against nation and the people treat each as brothers and sisters of a common family under God.

The only power that can bring this about is not through war or force, but through true love.

Each nation observes their own traditions, have their own cultural backgrounds and customs.  The only way to transcend the multitudes of barriers we face on every level from the individual to the family level is through true love.

As we continue on this path of restoration and love is perfected, you will see that the political, economic and cultural problems, basically all human disputes, will be fully resolved.

Every problem that humankind face today can be fundamentally resolved through the perfection of true love.  Humanity has gone in the opposite direction of this path with give and take of false love.

True love has an unchanging quality and is the same whether it is night or day.  It is not possessed by just one person.

True love belongs to everybody.

Imagine a world where true love is shared freely.  True love has the power to connect to the family, nation, world and the universe.

We must seek this true love.

God became a sorrowful and regretful God for creating humanity that went in the opposite direction of His will.

But, if we were to perfect our love centered on God, He would become a responsive God.  He would experience no regrets once He was immersed in it.

God will rejoice over anything that happens in the world if He is surrounded by true love.

If people could live in a world of true love, they would all live happily, without regret.

If we were able to reach this level of love, there would be no war, resentment or suffering in the world.

All of creation will shower blessings upon the ones that devote their lives centered on love.

Flowers will flourish and bloom in their gardens, birds will sing and want to live in the trees of their back yard.  This is because people who live centered on God's love know the value of all things of creation and truly love and embrace them.

Love is so big that even God yearns for it and is engulfed in love.  Therefore, what God wishes for more than anything is for love, because love is even greater than He is.

Did you know such a fact?  Even God bows down to true love.

Love is in unity with God and occupies the center of ideal circumstances and situations. So, as long as God exists, there is love to be experienced.  

You can find money, knowledge and power in the midst of love. 

Love's power is eternal.

Those who experience true love while living on earth, do not have to learn anything in the spirit world.

What is true love?

On the intersection of the vertical and horizontal line, true love forms a ninety-degree angle.  It must fit wherever it goes.  Love should fit in Eastern homes and in Western homes alike.

True love can fit in anywhere and everywhere regardless of whether there are difference in race, cultural or religious backgrounds.

The universe breathes in and out.  Political power can never control the expansion of the universe.  Neither can all the money in the world or knowledge.  Only through the giving of love.

When you are able to look at the world through eyes filled with true love, when you see a bird flying in the air, you will think that he is chirping because he is missing his beloved.

With eyes of love, poetry and prose come naturally to mind.

Our lives harmonize with nature and reproduce the symphony of love.  That is why a breath of love, a caress of love, a song of love and a whisper of love are all pleasing.

The most evil of forces dissolves in the presence of true love. 

Even if you just pass by or only look at true love, that is enough.

Love is the element that forms the essential part of you.  Before you are given life, love is at work.  It is the source of life itself.  A life that is lived for love is a productive and fruitful one.

On the other hand, a life that does not know love leads to exhaustion and destruction.  You have probably witnessed this phenom in your lifetime.

God, humankind and even the universe have a desire to live for the sake of love.

This is the original way of life.  True love is absolute, unchanging and eternal.  It can not be revolutionized, or developed.  Love's original form is eternal, unchanging and absolute.

The love attained in a natural setting and in the most natural atmosphere is real love.

Once someone opens his or her eyes to love, that person's mind and body will want to form better and multi-dimensional relationships within the universe.  They come to understand the order of nature from the leaves falling in autumn wind.

They will smile and want to become a flower blossom in order to appreciate the beauty of a flower in a spring garden.

The fastest action in the world is the action of love. 

If two people who lived on opposite ends of the earth were to fall in love with each other, their love would pull them together, therefore overcoming the distance between them.

Love has such power.

A person who receives love and receives grace from God looks beautiful.  When we are able to reach the state to feel God's love, we can thus relate and transcend everything in the universe.

When we are centered on the emotions of God's original love, we can have everything.

Our organs and our bodies were created for the one purpose, love.

The eyes were formed to seek for love, the nose to smell love, and the ears to listen to the sounds of love.

Of all the words we hear in the English language, there are words we never tire of and always like to hear and that are the words, "I love you."

That kind of love is true love that the entire universe welcomes. Love is the only topic which all beings enjoy.

True love doesn't lead us to only love those things that are good and beautiful.  We can define true love as that which can love the very lowest thing more than something high.

Love has such a power and quality that even God is bound by its authority.  This means that even the almighty God becomes weak before true love.

Even God wouldn't be able to prevent himself from smiling when He sniffs the scent of love emanating from humankind.  God likes to hear love stories.

What is the most holy element in the world?

It is true love.

True love starts from God. 

What God desires is the path of true love.

You must understand that if you do not follow the path of true love that you cannot have a close relationship with God.

God wants to see, hear, eat and touch through love.  That is where happiness will begin in the world, when people can live fully based on love.

We all want to reach perfection and realize the ideals of our dream, but we can never achieve these things without love.  Everything in the universe exists on the basis of love.

Everything in the creation began life through the original love of God.  

In this world, when you give something away, it is gone.  But in the case of love, the more you give, the more you receive in return.

This is why when we find true love, we delight in it.  No matter how much your give, it will be returned to you.  Then you can always be happy and joyful.

We all like money, but once you buy something, that money is gone for good.  However much you might like power, once you use it, it runs out.  But, the more you give love the more unlimited a supply you will have.

So, what exactly is true love?

It is something that even grandmothers and grandfathers can never relinquish, even in death.

Once you get a taste of true love, you delight in it so much that you can never live without it after that.  This is the same for all people: men and women, young and old, those from the East or the West.

Would a grandfather who receives love from his grand child exclaim that he doesn't like that kind of love.  That he was not used to that smell of love from where he is from.  Would he say that he rather smell something other than the scent of love?

Fresh baked bread or rice stimulates every cell in your body.  The cells respond that it tastes very good.

Love is like the essence of everything.  When you can treat anything and anyone with that kind of love, a path will open up along which you can freely go anywhere without restrictions.

True love lasts forever.  

Love is unchanging: in the spring, summer, autumn and winter; true love when you are in your teens, adulthood and old age; and true love even when you go to eternal spirit world.

Who owns love?

Not man or woman, but God Himself.  True love is the only way for God and human beings to become one, because love is absolutely essential to both God and human beings.

Wherever there is the harmony of love, circular motion takes place.

When humans and God unite centered on love, God can come down, and human beings can go up, and they will meet midway.

Thus God becomes the center of the sphere and then there is a spherical motion occurring with this give and take.

This is where the central point is.  This point is where harmony in love is established and is the place where life first stirs.  This is the starting point for equality and sharing together.

That is because the power of love is there.

The power that acts on and embraces everything in the universe is love. 

Love's quality can never be felt by yourself.

This can be said of happiness as well.  Even the concept of peace cannot be applied to just one nation if the rest of the world is at war or suffering.

You can only feel true happiness, when you can love based on a relationship with another on an equal footing.  It is the same for freedom.  You don't experience freedom on your own.  True freedom is acquired within love, together with love.

Even if a dictator was to give out true love and wield absolute authority over everyone, even with a whip, it would not hold the people back, Instead, it would bring richer joy and happiness.

This is because it is something that is given to others for their benefit, through which someone sacrifices himself to save others.

Love is the pillar that stands at the center where the mind and body automatically unite.

The individual, family nation, world and universe are all situated at the central point at that one pillar.

Since this central point does not move, this is why true love is the eternal place of settlement.

Jesus told the people that he was the way, the truth and the life and no one could come to the Father but by him.  However, he left one thing out, the most important aspect of all, love.

He should have said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life and the love.  Those words should be inserted into the Bible.

When Christians hear such a speech, they will say that it is blasphemous.  But if you ask God or if you just simply think about it, you know that Jesus, God's true son, was love.

From this, we can see that God really likes love, but he likes true love the best of all.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love is Boundless Giving

This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book, "True Love" Three Chapter one, Section one