We are the Fruit of God's Love

God and human beings are related as parent and child, but how did this relationship come to be?

Where did the parent-child relationship between God and human beings begin?  If you were to meditate and ask what is the center of the universe, the answer would be the parent-child relationship.

If you ask God, "What is the center of heaven and earth? What is the root of the universe?" God would answer that it is the relationship between the father, his sons and daughters, the parent-child relationship.

This is more important than any other relationship.

One who doesn't understand the depth of this answer will think this refers to the relationship between a physical father and mother and their children.  We are speaking about the basic relationship with God.

God created human beings because being alone brings no stimulation. 

Joy comes through a relationship.

Even when God is alone, He cannot receive the stimulation of joy without a partner.  Thus, the purpose behind creation.

When we are in the position of God's partner, we receive the highest love.  Then God's internal becomes substantial through His partner.

If God is sorrowful, humankind will inevitably be sorrowful.  This is why humanity's relationship with God cannot be severed.

This is the conclusion.

What is so special about the parent-child relationship?

It is the highest place where father and son can meet at the central point where their love, life and ideals connect.  Then, love, life and ideals are in one place.

There, God is love, and so are we.  God is life and so are we.  God's ideals are our ideals.  The first place where these qualities can be established is in the parent-child relationship.

When God gives us love, how much would He want to give?  God's love does not have a set limit.  He would want to give to humanity infinitely.  Even after giving everything, God will say, "Because of you, I want to live in you."

Which sentiment makes this possible?

It is love.  Even if God had to live as a servant, he would be happy, just as long as that life were lived inside of love.  

Love transcends law.

Throughout fallen history, God never abandoned humanity.  He has been continuously giving his love to us.  He has done so without complaining.  He still gives you everything without reserve.

Why do you not give back to God?

It is the same as a spoiled child.  How can we be like this?

God is made of absolute love. He is still frustrated due to humanity severing a true direct relationship with Him.  He is not able to give all of his love.

He is limited by our choices.

God cannot assert Himself into anyone's lives.  Since God's purpose in creating man was to give perfect love, then even though the human world prohibits Him from doing so until now, He will still pour out His love to us.

When we think that our Father has unconditionally been giving to us, the better we feel.

If God was the type of person that says, "I have given everything, so now you give back," then there would not be a need for that type of God.

God is the Father of human beings, and human beings are God's sons and daughters. 

Since we fell away from the standard of God and followed another, we are at best God's adopted children awaiting the full restoration of our sinful fallen lineage to God's pure lineage through the Messiah.

God invested the core of His bone marrow when He created humanity.

If we pull on God, God cannot help but follow.  God created for the purpose of love.  That is why God likes to see a man and woman love each other.

For this reason, God appears in the world as the essence of love.

A child is the fruit, the manifestation of the parents' love, an extension of their life.

Children are the embodiment of their parents' ideals.

Children are born based on their parents' love, life and ideals.  Therefore the more the parents see them, the more loveable they become.  The more they become the ideal people, the more vibrant life becomes.

Human beings are born through the relationship of love as God's absolute partners. This is where God becomes Father and we become His sons and daughters.  

If there was a position that was higher than that, then humans would desire to occupy that position.  If there is something that is better, because human desire seeks the best, then God would have to give it to us.

Since God has this highest form of love, He is surely the Father of humankind and human beings are His sons and daughters.

Clearly, God created us with value.

If God created us without Him knowing this, then He would be an incomplete God.  But God is the Absolute Being and thus He created us as His absolute partners. 

What kind of being is God, the Creator of heaven and earth? He is a being of utmost goodness, the root of all things, and the Lord of love. 

God wanted to give all the precious things in the whole universe to humankind.  If there is someone that God could believe in and entrust everything to, He would pass on the most precious things to him in their entirety.

Since God is our Father, He wouldn't have created us as mediocre or incompetent partners.  Who would even want a spouse that is like this?

He created us to stand in an equal position to Him.  The all-knowing, all-powerful God  created us to be the same level.

Therefore, our conscience seeks the best.

Since God is the Absolute Being, why did He need to create human beings?  He did not create them for the sake of money, knowledge or power.  He created man so He could feel love.

If the connection between God and human beings are made, then absolutely nothing can sever the relationship of loving oneness between God and humankind.

In the creation of human beings, He invested every bit of Himself to fashion us into the most precious ideal perfect form.

Many believe God to be a being that demands to be worshiped, but God's reason for creating human beings is out of love.

God created Adam and Eve only wanting to exist for their sake.

An ideal being does not live for his own sake; an ideal being lives for the sake of others.

An ideal being lives for the sake of its object partner.  This principle is the basic core of the universe.

No matter how all-knowing, all-powerful, and absolute God may be, God cannot be happy all alone.

The words "happiness" and "it's good" do not have meaning if you are alone.  You can say life is good when you have give and take between a partner in a relationship.  Is there anyone who can truly say that they are happy when he is alone?

No matter how all-knowing and almighty God may be, He is not happy when He is alone. 

Let's say a singer was stuck on an island by himself.

Would he be happy if he had no one to listen to his song?  He will only be joyful when that give and take exists with a partner.  Likewise, God needs an object partner in order to experience joy.

God, by completely investing Himself, created His object of love because He needed an object of love. You cannot love by yourself. 

God created human beings as such objects of love because He, also cannot love without such objects of love.

The Bible says that God created us through the Word, but He was not lax with His work.  He created them by investing Himself 120 percent through excruciating hardship and difficulty.

When established Church members think about God's creation of heaven and the earth they focus on His omniscience and power.  Thereby, they believe simply that He created everything by His words within six physical days instead of time periods.

The creation did not, however, come about through any type of magic.

He created us through investing His entire being with a sincere heart.

This is why we love Him.  Just as we fully love something for which we have invested our utmost efforts and blood and flesh in.

We place what we have invested in the object of our sincerest hope because it is the core of our entire being.

God does not tell us to give everything for His sake, rather than Him instructing us to cleave to Him, He invests Himself.

He placed the starting point of of the ideal of world peace upon the principle of existing for the sake of others.

This is why God invested Himself for our sake.  From this viewpoint, we understand that God exists for mankind's sake.

What does God mean when He says, "I am love"?  He is teaching us to cherish love by night and day, during any activities even while dancing and crying.  In this manner, He could say, "I have love in its entirety."

Having love in its entirety means that everything was invested into it.

The one who cherishes love the most is God.

God possesses all of that love, yet once we get a taste of it, we are unable to let go of it even in death.

As an omniscient, omnipresent being, there is nothing God wants to withhold for Himself.  He already has everything, He lacks nothing.

What He values most and takes pride in, it is love.

Apart from love, God does not need anything.

How will we be able to bring completion to the ideal world God had in mind?  Surprisingly, it does not start with God, but with human beings.

Human beings were destined to stand at the center of creation.  For this reason, unless humanity who are God's object can become perfect, there is no way for God to become fully perfect.

This is because humankind and God are one.

What element makes us unite with God and His will?

Is it any of God's qualities: His omnipotence, omnipresence, power?  No. 

Then what should it be?  God is alive and dwells in the spirit world, transcendent of time and space.

What is the center of God's life.  God lives with love as His central focal point.  

God's focus from the very beginning was love and throughout His present course.  He will do so for eternity, live for love.  This is because when he has a true object of His love, God feels joy.

God has a storehouse of love which keeps replenishing itself even after He gives and gives from it.

Even if we were to steal a lot of love from this storehouse and give it out day and night, God would not punish us.  He would say that it was okay and that it was good.

He would even encourage us to take as much as we wanted and keep doing it forever.  There is always love left no matter how much we take.  That is why He is God.

God will say, "That is why I am the Subject. As the Subject Partner must have more than He can give to the object partner, otherwise I would not be God.  That is what I am like!"

If you want to steal love from God and distribute it like a power plant of love, He will supply as much as you need.

When God runs out of love, you will want to get more so you can connect to His pipeline of love.  God will say, "If you want, go ahead!"  This is how great God's love is.

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This post was rewritten and derived from The Original Being of God Chapter One, Cheon Seong Gyeong Section 4

Invest Your All

This is how God is: God invests everything into a being, and then that being experiences love. Then that explosive love will be returned back to the original Being who made all that investment. God created everything according to this principle.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon

During the process of creation, God gave His everything to man.  On the same accord, a man should want to give everything to a woman. In return, the woman will want to give everything back to the man, and then the man will give everything back to God.  

This is how everything is created.

When a husband and wife give and take in this lively way, then the two will come into complete unity and never separate.  This is the center of God's love.  That is the most ideal place the nucleus.  When a couple are truly in love and live in love, then God is living there, too.

This is the secret to being a true spouse the way God intended: Pour your love into your spouse and live for your spouse doing things for his/her sake day in and day out.  When he gets overly saturated in this love he may ask why you invest so much love into him and want to get away.

But if you continue to love him in this way despite his protests, he will turn around and return your love.  Love grows in this way.  This is the Principle of Creation.

What would be the true definition of a saint?

A saint is the one who goes ahead of other people in realizing, practicing and teaching this principle.  They have laid a foundation and expanded this realm of living for the sake of others.  This is all part of the law of creation.  

We must follow this course and we must love. We must emulate God's image and put all of our love into our families, into other people and into the nation.  

There is only one way for us to go: I, as an individual, must love my spouse and then bring all of society into oneness and later meet God. Then I will fall in love with God and jump into that love and live happily day by day.

When I really live for the sake of other people, the society, and the nation, love always comes back to me.  If we live in this way, this principle will go around and around and expand throughout the universe.

Anyone who is looking for love goes against the process of the law of creation.  You cannot find love.  You first invest yourself and pour your love into others.  Have you loved your spouse?  Love comes back to you as much as you have invested into the other.  When that happens, love starts coming back.

When Ownership Begins

This tradition of living for others and investing love first is being laid on earth for the first time.  The Messiah lives for this sake to leave this kind of tradition behind and lives consistently with the will of God.  He invests everything and spares nothing; he searches for ways to give out even more.  This is where true ownership begins.  After living in this manner, all things follow such a person.

Couples everyday tell each other that they love each other.

But that husband and wife may think they love each other, but once they disagree and the other gets offended, they start quarreling.  This is obviously not the true way and is not an example of love.

Love is when you want to put your whole life into the relationship until there is nothing left to put in.  Through this investment of self, love starts coming back.

The more we love, the more love and ownership will come to us. 

If spouses invested themselves for one another, is it possible for them to quarrel?

When this kind of life is practiced, we are guaranteed to be on the right path.  Even if we do not know where we are going, we are surely headed in the right direction.

How do you decide who is going to be the center of such a large family with many brothers, sisters, in-laws, uncles and aunts?  Just because one is the eldest, does this make them the center of that family?  What if they were truly mean to others and never practiced true love? 

The person who invests day in and day out the most into that family by giving everything he's got for the sake of the other family members without expecting anything in return is the center of the family.  This is how you predict who is going to be the center of the household and the true owner of everything.  

We naturally know that we are supposed to love the world, but this sentiment is too vague.  We must truly put our life into what we are doing just as God did for us.  This way, all things belong to us.  If you want to own everything with love then give, give all you have. This is our credo.

Don't say, "Where is love?".  Don't say, "My husband must love me", or "I expect love from my wife". If you do, peace and love can never be realized within your family. 

There is no love until we put our love in. 

Put in everything you have, then your investment will return as love towards you. How wonderful that is!

This is an amazing truth that can transform today's loveless society.  We should love in this way from the individual level all the way to the national level and we will see change.  Those searching for love, should put in everything they have and then they will see their investment returned as love.

If you want to be a true mother or father, you have to honestly ask yourself, how much have you loved your children in the righteous, heavenly way.

When a child is absolutely loved by their parents, they will never want to leave even if they are being scolded.

When you give out your love and everything comes back to you and wants to be owned by you, then you can truly live happily.  This is the ideal way of life.

God loves us, but we have to love God too. 

Since all things belong to God, if we love Him, wouldn't all things also belong to us? The only way to own anything in the universe is only through loving God.  This is when we become the true owner of things.

Your Own Mind Knows

Humanity should go this way.  How will we know that we have invested everything?  Your own mind will tell you before anything else whether you have given 100 percent or not.  Here on earth, people can cover their actions and intentions behind every deed, but in the spirit world you cannot pretend.  

Everything is in the open and will be revealed.  The ideal way to live is to daily live for the sake of others.  There is no other way to reach the ideal.  The amazing reality is that God even tries to love even Satan.

Do we have such a standard of living?

"Everyday I am so excited that I hate it when one day ends; I can't wait until the next day dawns. That kind of excitement is the ideal way. Unless and until we put everything we have into what we are doing, we cannot realize true joy. Just put in more and more every day without thinking what will be returned, then you will always have more and more -- never less. I have always followed this formula.

At the last moment you may feel you have done enough. Then insist on putting in one more bit of effort. That one step makes all the difference.

When love owns you, you can't oppose it.  You have to belong to somebody. 

How can you object to belonging to someone who truly loves you? Do you think I'm a happy person? Why do you think so? Because I know that in the future, even Satan, even the communists, will not be able to oppose me. How can they oppose me when I love them?"

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

What is the will of God? It is to fulfill the ideal of creation, which is to form a four-position foundation of the husband/wife/children centered on God and live for the sake of others. Then all the love ownership comes back to God.

The person who has done this will have lived the will of God. Such a couple will be an ideal family and live happily ever after. This is the nucleus through which the whole world can be connected. The world is an extension of such a family.
  

What is the ideal life?

The ideal life is putting everything you have into the ideal.  If we live this way, we can go anywhere and be welcomed and no country will oppose this way of life.  This is the will of God.  If we each live this ideal way of life, wouldn't the world turn into the ideal world?

The secular world has an opposing philosophy: I want to be loved.  

I will take whatever I can get.  This type of philosophy does not allow a world of unity and peace. God's formula is to live for other's sake.  If we live in this way, the world automatically comes into unity.
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We can say the world will automatically come into unity because God lives that way.  When we live in this way, our unity becomes broader and broader.  There is no other way for a unified world, no other secret besides this.

Now, we see the ideal world is at hand.

Do you think that the ideal world will come if you just sit back and wait for it to come thinking, "I'd like to sit in that kind of world and go to heaven when I die?".  This type of thinking is the same thinking of a thief.  A thief doesn't work and takes everything he has.

Because of the foundation of the Messiah you are able to participate in Gods heavenly world on earth.

Faith without works is dead.  Just sitting and believing that God will work is not enough.  He gave us 5% of 100% to fulfill our portion of responsibility.  It is our choice to do His will or not.  If we do not do enough before God, our conscience will not permit us to stand before God.

We should not be in the position to be ashamed of ourselves before God.  We should live always conscious of the fact that I should not live a life that I would be ashamed of.

The real situation is that every human needs salvation.

We are saved by dignity, not by shame. This way of life, we may not be able to eat what we like, say what we like, do the things we like so there is a possibility that we will not be ashamed of our actions.

How can we be complacent as our brothers and sisters at this very moment are losing their lives at the hands of Satan?  His ultimate goal is to destroy humanity and pull them as far away from God as possible.

You should not be just members or followers of the truth just borrowing the true way of thinking or life.  You must make it as your own and be proud of the concept and actually live this true way of life and become true descendants.  These are not just words, it is actions.

Do you understand clearly? Now we know how we will achieve salvation; how we can be saved with
dignity, without shame. 

We are all individual messiahs of love.   Plant love and you will never perish.

You may suffer in giving out your love, but you will never perish in this way of life and will never be ashamed.  By practicing true love, true love will come back to you with ownership.  This is a reality.  

Do you understand? Those who say, "Father, I understand deeply now and I will live the way of love," raise your hands as a pledge to do your best to fulfill this.".


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This post was taken and rewritten from a speech given by the Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon based on the Divine Principle teachings which are centered on the history of the Bible.