True Parent's Heart Wants to Give Everything

The bible gives the account of the beginning of creation.   Let's forget the scientific and biblical debate of the beginning and keep it simple. Have you ever wondered why God built the universe and all of creation?

Like an artist, God first made a plan with man as the model for all of creation.  When you look at the physics internally and externally of man you will see the map of all creation.  God as our Parent created all of the universe for the love of man.  Once we realize this fact, then the account in Genesis
takes on a more heartfelt meaning when you see God as a Parent preparing the world for His children.

And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.  

God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

Genesis 1 24-27

If humans are made in God's image, then like God as human parents we want to give everything to our children - all of our heart and possession for our children's love.

This is the parental heart of a parent.  The greatest of all relationships is that between parent and child.

Parents who have given birth to and raised children all understand the desire to receive blessings and feel happiness through their sons and daughters, whom they love dearly. Also, if they have established a correct standard through which they can experience joy, they will want to bequeath this to their offspring for eternity.

Even fallen parents hope that their children will grow up as fine people who can be followed and revered by all nations and praised eternally.

The parental heart seeks to protect children from harm and is concerned about them day and night. The heart of fallen parents can even be like this.

For example, a mother ignores the diaper smells from her baby while nursing her child at her breast. Thus, if fallen parents have such a heart towards their children, how earnest must God's heart have been, longing to love Adam and Eve based on their original hearts?

You should all think about this. When you nurse and nurture your babies, you sing them lullabies and whisper to them, wishing that their lives will be a success. Any parent has such a heart.

No matter how incompetent or lacking parents may be, if one of their children suffers from a disability, the parents' hearts are devastated to the point of breaking.   To God, when He looks down at humanity, he sees disfigured children crippled by sin.

If this situation is then resolved, the relief and joy are overwhelming in proportion to the original pain. If such is the heart of a fallen parent, what must be the heart of God?

If a son commits a crime and is sent to prison, the parents tearfully forgive and reach out to him, instead of saying, "Serves him right!" This is why parental love is extraordinary. Similarly, if a son is sentenced to execution, his mother will be totally grief-stricken and seek any way, even changing the world's legal systems or risking her life, to save her son.

Such is the unchanging and sacrificial nature of the parental heart towards the children.

Do loving parents keep an account of the times they love their children, saying: "We bought you shoes and clothes a few days ago with our hard earned money, which cost us so many dollars and cents?"

When parents love their children, they want to treat them even better than princes and princesses, and still feel sorry that they cannot give more.

Parents have the heart of wanting to give their children something better. This is why we cherish parental love. You should all know this.

No matter how much parents give they feel that it is not enough; they love and yet feel as if there is some love they have not yet given and want to give more; and even after giving, they still feel unsatisfied with what they were able to give their children.

This essence of parental love is that is what connects us to eternal love. This is the original motivation for the beginning point of love.

When it comes to children, parents always want to give the best of what they have to the children.  This is the true definition of a parental hear and this heart is a reflection of the nature of God.

If this is so, what kind of being is God?  God wants to share of  his most precious attributes to those who truly become His children.

The unconditional nature of rue love is that it does not waver, it is eternal, does not change according to circumstances or convenience.  A good friend will stay by his friend's side when the times are good and when they are bad.  A husband of true love will stay with his wife forsaking all others when she is sick and old and all of her beauty has faded away.  A parent whose child has run away will always look out the window every night in hopes of seeing their child return.

 Constancy is the ballast of all lasting and true relationships.

When people practice true love, they are there for one another no matter what the situation even if it turns sour.  God's love is unchanging and is a place of the heart where we want to return time and again for forgiveness, renewal, reassurance, wisdom and fresh determination.

A bumper sticker reads, “If you don’t feel close to God—guess who moved?” We may be sure that He didn't. The “Unmoved Mover” remains constant, the ultimately loving parent.

One parent practiced the elements of true love in her patience to win the hart of her reluctant teenage daughter.  Her rebellious daughter had a "smart mouth" and was very arrogant which harmed and pain the parents.

At the height of crisis, the police called the mother to tell her they had picked up her daughter for reckless driving.  The mother was so upset that she couldn't talk to the daughter for a whole night.

Then, after the mother stepped back, she knew that she had still belief in her daughter's goodness.  She wanted to demonstrate this faith to her daughter.  She wrapped up a little gift and handed it to her daughter with this note:

“This rock is a thousand years old. That’s how long it will take before I give up on you.”

The teenager broke down in tears at this evidence of her mother’s devotion, and the two became closer after that.

You and I should be grateful that God's heart is immensely larger than the human parent's love.  He never gives up on people who have wronged Him - even when they had already given up on themselves.

 People, like the teenage girl, feel worthless, hopeless, despairing, and beyond redemption when they are travelling down the wrong path.  Fortunately, God's love is like a rock.  He is always there, always has hope in us and waits for His child to return.

As Jesus expressed so poignantly, “Ask, and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door shall be opened unto you.”

We can visualize that God is a True Parent that is always home and ready to open the door and answer it when His child needs Him.  He always holds steadfast that His children will visit wanting Him to embrace them in a love that never wavers.  God is a True and Ultimate Parent.

Reverend Moon has said:

“What made Jesus sacred was that he trusted and loved people, wanted to live with them and save them more than anything else—even though they betrayed him. He blessed his enemies. There are sixty-six volumes in the Holy Scripture, but when you condense its significant meaning, the teaching of Jesus is . . . unchangeability.”


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This text was rewritten and is based on the teachings of the Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon who wrote the Divine Principle.

Cheating is Cheaters Fault No Exception

How could someone make such a stupid statement?  First off, whether you believe in God or whether you do not believe and refuse to follow His strict laws, He has placed rules from the beginning that lead to blessings and if we refuse to follow those decisions lead to curses.  This is an absolute law which can not be even violated by God.

One of the laws is that his children are to stay pure until they mature.  Which means, before they are to marry they should mature their spirits before thinking about the opposite sex.  God isn't a 'try it out' God.  He supposed that man and woman would remain faithful to Him and grow with Him through His word before He would marry them to another. 

Seems extreme, but you see it in the bible when it speaks about humanity should remain as brides and bridegroom until the coming of the Lord.  So even though we are single, we should act as if Jesus or the feminine Holy Spirit is our counterparts until the marriage blessing. 

In other words, every man should stay faithful to God until they are blessed until marriage and thus offer their body parts, the most holy place, to their spouses. 

Even those who have no belief in God will cry uncontrollably when their spouse shares the most sacred part to another woman.  Also, parents will have opposition to their children experiencing sex or having children before they are out of high school.  This is because they sense God's law without having a belief in him.

Of course, there are the exception of wife swapping and parents who encourage sex in their teens, I have known acquaintances that do such.  Are they truly happy?  Hell, no.  Not in the end, destruction and high emotions, there is suffering and sadness on this path. 

Back to the idea that single people are to have the thought they have God as a counterpart through the ideal of Jesus or the feminine Holy Spirit.  That means, even if we are single, when we overly desire or have sex before we are in the marriage of God, we betray God.  We 'cheat on him'  So in short, everything done with the desires of being with someone else outside of our spouse's relation, is a betrayal to God and secondly our spouse.  Period. 

Hard pill to swallow.  Once millions recognize this and truly live by this standard you will see a miraculous overnight revival in America of no more babies out of wedlock, fidelity in marriage and a lot more healthy people unbroken caused by a string of broken relationships.

Well, if one looks at it from the position of the cheater or from the position of the one who helped the cheater cheat, this universal law seems unidealistic.  I am looking from the position of God's point-of-view.  If God could be a judge in court presiding over a case of a wife and husband and the wife had never listened to the husband when he needed her and did not fulfill her portion of responsibility as a wife, then the husband kisses and makes out with his coworker offering his attentions to her who is at fault? 

  Most people would be on the side of the one who was being neglected in the marriage.  What if this same scenario and we find out instead of cheating the husband beats the wife to get her to be nice or do as he wants.  What's the difference?  I thought it was the one who was ignoring the spouse fault and the other can do as they please to "get back" at that spouse.  Isn't that in essence what cheating is?  Yes, this would be true by today's standard and by the standard of reality television shows.

When we look from a higher point-of-view even beyond religion and just by the rule of God, would God say that the husband was in the right?  Absolutely not.

First of all in order to cheat, one not only violates the contract of their relationship, but they also have violated their contract with God.
Before any of us decides to settle down we are no doubt born as individuals who grow as individuals until maturity.  God had told us it was during this time that we should make our spirit strong and grow in love with God into maturity.  But we as humanity do not mature our spirits at all before we link ourselves to another.  All relationships after Adam and Eve have been between two spiritually immature people entering into oneship and multiplying their immature spirit and problems to their children, family and into society.  So, yes, you and I and every human was born with sin.

God expects that before we enter in marriage every human is to wait for their bride, which means we have the Lord as our husband or Holy Spirit as the wife until we marry.

This means even single people should not enter into relationships that could perpetuate the fall over again.


Cheating Repeats the Fall 

If one falls with another being to whom they are not married, they have violated their connection to God and have to amend the situation to be forgiven and return to their rightful position.  No matter what another person does, there is nothing on this earth that should be blamed for the fact that a person broke their covenant with God.

Some say that Abel's arrogance of making fun of Cain's offering caused rage in Cain.  Even if Cain had the right to kill his brother, it does not change the fact that his brother is gone from the earth before he could accomplish God's Will.

This is why it is crucial that an individual  mature their spirit before they think about another individual  to the level that no matter what, to the point of death, they want to please God and take their purity in front of God and protect it. This is the only way that two people who have this kind of standard can keep a Godly marriage solid.

There no doubt should be any blame taken from the other person, for why people stray, but they are not to blame for a person betraying God.  Nothing is excusable for this.  Try explaining to God like Job did about his own indiscretions throughout life and see how far you get with, "but she nagged me, she didn't love me enough".  Might work with human society but God does not play when it comes to His word. 

Thank God that He gives each of us chances to start anew after paying for our mistakes we can return to zero.


Cheating Waves a Bigger Sign

If you delighted in the movie "When Harry Met Sally" you may remember the scene when Harry tells his best friend at the ball game about his wife on the same day he finds out she is moving out and first time he realizes it is to live with another man.  His friend says that cheating is not the problem it is a symptom that something is wrong in the marriage.  Harry says, "Well, that symptom is f*&king my wife!"

If a man betrays the trust of a marriage and it is his fault, why do women want to beat the heck out of the other woman?  Because she is the fruit of what is wrong in their marriage in the first place.  A woman's problems with her husbands can drive him to do something wrong, including drugs, abuse and sex with another woman, but these are just the outward appearance of hidden problems within their marriage and they can 'beat' or blame this symptom as a kind of relief.

God desires absolute, unique and eternal love. Do we all have five senses? (Yes.) Why do they exist? Only the power of love is able to mobilize these five senses to the core. When these five senses are mobilized into one point, it is called the love core. Then between plus and minus at the core they make a spark which is the action of love-making. It is like lightening and thunder. When your five senses are focused on this love core, do you want to have ten focal points or one central point?

We want one.

Absolutely one. Through marriage, the plus and minus love pillars come together and create a spark which will light the entire world. That particular lightning and thunder of the action of love-making will light the entire world.

We have two eyes, but when we look at one object we focus on one point. Even our eyes are formed in such a way. Then as husband and wife we can never look at someone else in an unprincipled way. In order to be able to enter the Kingdom of God as blessed couples, we should carry our plus and minus light pillars and create this spark, lightning and thunder throughout eternity.

Without doing so we will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God. As husband and wife we know how many poles or pillars we have within our heart. One central pole for our spouse or other poles? If we have so many poles centered on so many people in the position of husband and wife, we should be considered trash cans. This represents the worst kind of hell.


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This post is based upon the teachings of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon who wrote the Divine Principle which every post is based upon.  The original was written in the 1950s in Korean and translated in the 1960s in English.  Each post is rewritten from the point of view of seven consistent years of study and application mostly using the original English translation word for word.