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.

Sacrifice 4 Love

"Love requires one hundred percent devotion. When God was creating the universe, He invested Himself one hundred percent through His love. That is why true love begins with living for the sake of others." 

God is not the dictator that many people believe Him to be.

He gave everything of Himself for human beings.  He is close to us because He wants to live for us.  Has any dictator or ruler in the past surpass this kind of relationship which God gives to us?  This is why we want to follow God.

The natural law is to live for the sake of others.  To maintain our state of existence in the world, humanity must live in this way.  Only when we live for others will there be a connection between the East and the West and go far beyond the ages and the present.

When we give and give again for the sake of others, we are exhibiting the nature of God who gave of Himself for the creation.  When you put everything you have into something, you create a second self. This is the same as God investing everything He had at the same time of creation.

Only when one invests everything one has, is the only time recreation takes place.  History has been nothing but recreation - bringing humanity back to the original position we once enjoyed before the fall.  This course of restoration is through indemnity - paying back for any wrongs done.

You will never come to ruin when you live for the sake of others.  The idea of eternal life lives on this logic of investing oneself.   From giving small things, you move on to giving bigger things.  Then it circles back and comes back to you.

We will never be satisfied when we give true love - instead, you want to give more and more and you feel ashamed you are not able to give more.

Those who feel ashamed even after giving are truly the owners of true love.

In true love, the more we give, the more we receive in return.  The more we carry out this principle, the more the power that comes back exceeds the power that was given.  In this way, you will never perish, but only prosper.

There is no way to be prosperous without love. 

You can never exhaust true love.  The more you set it in motion, the greater it gets.

The laws of mechanics state that the more something is in constant motion, it becomes exhausted in time.  We have adopted this ideal into our lives, but in the case of true love this does not apply.  The more that true love is set into motion, rather than being used up, the greater it becomes.

The essence of love is such that when you live for the sake of others, your love becomes greater, but when you want people to live for you, your love diminishes little by little. 

"What is true love? It is giving, and then forgetting about it; it is giving and giving and then giving some more."

No matter how much you give, the world of love lasts forever.  Even the word "love' is truly mighty.

There is a Korean saying, "One well-spoken word can clear away a large debt".  This means that one word can indemnify something even great.  Even if you have a debt of a billions dollars, one word of love can more than indemnify the debt.

Only the house of true love has the authority to govern the universe with its infinite magnitude.  Even God the Creator has to bow His head to love.  Love comes from living for the sake of others.

God cannot fulfill love alone.  It can only be attained in relation to another. So, where does love begin?

Love doesn't happen when one person is by themselves, it does not come from oneself.  It grows and develops through having a partner.  

Where is the root, the beginning of true love kept?  Surprisingly the root of love is not kept within the all-knowing and powerful God.  Even though He is the central figure of true love He does not want to keep the root of love within Himself.

He rather have love take root in the person who is His object of love.  Isn't this true within a couple?

A man who is bursting with love for his lady will not want to keep this love within himself, but would want to share it and give it to his beloved.

The more love you give, the more love you have.  It is never ending.  You will have a reserve of love to give out even on a larger scale.  But there is a laundry list of things that have an end: money, knowledge and authority all come to an end at some point.

If it has to do with human circumstances or sentiment in the world, it comes to an end.  On the other hand, eternal true love never comes to an end no matter how much you continue to give.  The quality of love is amazing in that it continues into eternity.

One thing about true love, if you center it on yourself, it is something you cannot fulfill.  It does not begin from oneself, but it begins and is later fulfilled through one's partner in love.  Therefore, love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart or partner.

No one can attain love by themselves.  Even the richest and greatest person on earth cannot achieve love if he is alone.  Isn't this true?  We see this among the Hollywood stars and people who seem to 'have it all'.  If they divorce or are alone, despite their wealth and successful careers, they may seem to have nothing.

This is because love is only formed in a relationship between a subject and object partner.  Even God cannot feel the stimulation of love if He tries to obtain it for His own sake.  This is the reason why God chose to create the human world of creation, for the purpose of love.

The core of the universe is human beings, and the core of human beings is life. 

The root of life is love, and the root of love is God, but this love cannot be realized by someone all alone. As God is the origin of love, the only beings qualified to be partners in that love are human beings. 

Have you thought that we do not use the word "hope" or "love" being fulfilled in the true sense  in relation to someone who is alone?  Even our life does not come from ourselves; life only comes through the bonds of a relationship with another.

What are two things that last for eternity?

Life and love.

Which comes first, life or love?  For God, love did not exist before He did, it came into existence after God existed.  For God, life comes first and love comes second, for humans beings love comes first and life comes second.

What kind of beings did God create us to be?

God created us to be equal to His absolute and unique value to Him and to be an object partner to His love.  Man and woman were created to enter a partnership of love with God, thus endowing them with greater value than that of even the whole universe.

We are born from love, raised with love and then live in love until the day we die in love.  But when we die, we do not disappear.  Since God is eternal, unchanging and the subject of love, then His object partner should have the same quality of eternal life.

The reason God created Adam and Eve was not to just look at them and watch them from afar or just speak to them.  He wanted a relationship where He could attain joy based on love.  God is an Absolute Being and needs another being in which to partake with love.

This partner is none other than human beings.  If we are His object partners, when we appear before God's perfected love as a perfected individual, He can then become the God of happiness and the God who found His ideal of joy.

Where does love come from?

It manifests from your partner. If your partner is ugly and you dislike him or her, you want to withdraw your love. And if the partner is beautiful and good, the dynamics of love are set off that much quicker.

In other words, the workings of love are determined by the qualities of those in partnership, such as their words, beauty, fragrance, and flavor.

God had only one dream He wished to fulfill and that was to realize the ideal of true love.  God could not make this dream happen on His own.  Love, happiness or joy cannot be achieved by one entity alone.  They will never be substantiated without a partnership. 

So, where does love originate?

Even for God, love does not come from self but from our partner.  This principle gives value to our partner such that we should bow and live for that person who is our partner in love.

This is why the law of nature instructs us to, "Live for the sake of others".  This means that we should live for and revere our partner since this precious and valuable element we receive only comes when we practice the philosophy of living for the sake of of our partner and others.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon explains more on this philosophy of living for others:

"It is not without meaning that I am vibrant and active in many fields; I do so because I have a purpose. That purpose is none other than to realize the world of love.

Human beings exist with the aim of realizing and attaining love. Since the purpose of human life lies in the realization of true love, the value of human existence is also decided by this true love. How wonderful this is!"SMM

You might wonder how a perfect God could have any relation with human beings who are imperfect.
This is why He sent the Messiah as a mediator who carried His blood lineage, but this was not part of creation He planned from the beginning of an ideal world of love.

Everyone wishes for an ideal partner who has even thousands of times the value or infinite value more than we possess.

In the same way, God wishes for human beings who are His partner in love, to have infinite value.  A person who is perfected achieves a divine nature and becomes flawless just as Heavenly Father is and thus they attain the same value as the Father.  This is the quality the Messiah possessed after perfection.

Some people mistaken that Adam and Eve were born perfect.  They had a growth period first they had to experience and then they could reach the perfection level by having faith in God's word and following His will.

We know that Adam and Eve were not born perfect for the simple fact that they fell.

A perfected being does not fall.  If it was possible for a being that had reached perfection to fall, then it would undercut the very principles of attaining oneness with God.

What is true love? It is a love that moves you to want to stay with your partner for a thousand years, and that makes you want to love that person forever. 

With such a love, there can be no hell and Satan cannot get at you. 

With a love this great, hell does not exist and Satan cannot reach you.  The principle states that a partner who has reached the level of becoming one through the eternal love of the Creator who is an eternal being, they must also be eternal and live forever.

Religion must begin to understand the relationship between eternal life and love.  Eternal life does not lie within man, woman or even God.  Eternal life is in the LOVE of God.

When you do not have a subject partner in love, you feel lonely, correct?

But as soon as you find a subject partner in love, everything feels full.  Only when something is filled to the top with love, then everything else can be filled up as well.

Then you can truly give out your love infinitely.  The reason why we exchange love with others is in order that we achieve an ideal and thus multiply that ideal through loving others.  The world of love transcends distance and time.

"Love is so fast that even light cannot follow it. Love is the fastest thing in the world. It is also the brightest and the most perfect. Love is the only thing that fills things up completely." 

Who is closer to the center: someone who is willing to sacrifice love to sustain life, or someone who is willing to sacrifice life for the sake of love? 

Who is closer to the truth? 

The person who can sacrifice their life in order to attain love is closer to the center and closer to what is true.  This is the type of life the Messiah lived.  This is because anyone who is willing to sacrifice love to further their life is living self-centered, this is not God or other-centered.  Whereas the one that is willing to sacrifice life for love is practicing the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

Reverend Moon continues his speech about loving others:

"As I wandered through the five oceans and the six continents, I preached earnestly about the path of love. I have sought to shine the light of love on all people, who, living without love, are like a desert. 

If the path people are ultimately to follow will lead them to that other world of love, the most important thing for humanity must be the "love beacon".  Only that beacon of love can lead humanity to the original homeland.

Once you become one with God, circular motion manifests in all kinds of forms and figures. That is why the older sibling must love the younger, following the example of their parents in loving them. In such a family that is united into loving oneness, the love within the family blossoms.

Then that love becomes the love within a society, and then the love within a nation. In this way, it later becomes the love of the whole world."

God was lost in the rapture of love when He created man to live forever.  This is why aging is not the enemy.  We are born from love, live with love and finally we are harvested as the fruits of love when we pass away.

We live our lives receiving love of our parents, our children and after experiencing love as a couple we love our children as their parents.

Therefore the love of God and everything we have sown in the inner world of love is to be brought to fruition over the course of our lives. When we pass on to the next world we reap the fruits of the earthly lives we lived and take them with us. 

On the foundation of love, God maintains life.  

His power, omnipotence and omniscience is based on true love.  Only on this basis of true love can He stand as the ideal subject partner to humanity.  This subject partner who can transcend history and time.

If God held the subject position using only the power of life, then all things of creation would not be able to unite.  Even the microscopic animals and plants or your house cat wish for a master of love to tend them and take care of them.  They like to feel the touch of loving hands.

A subject partner should not demand, "I'm stronger than anyone else, so you have to do as I say!".  The root of life begins in love.  Only when love is involved is life set in motion.  The basis for God's continued existence is not life, but love.

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This text was rewritten and taken from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong

Book Three - True Love
Chapter One - What Is True Love?