The correct attitude of faith towards God
Then what is the
reason that God has been working in history for 6.000 years? It was for the
purpose of embracing the whole of history in His bosom. God Has been wishing
that not just earth but even the spirit world will become one with the whole
through His love. He has been longing for that one day. If you want to receive
grace from this God, Then you must pray, “Father! Please call on me.”
God’s love must never
end with you. What you must understand today is that the grace that God gives
is not only for your own sake. At the same time it saves your life, it is also
for the sake of saving the whole of humanity.
Nonetheless, because
the people of today live centering on themselves, though many people want to
find God, there is almost no one who receives this grace. You must free
yourself from this. You must penetrate through it and dismantle it to serve God
as the cosmic God. Before this universal God, you must feel the responsibility that
penetrates deeply into your minds and bodies. The garden of hope that you
believe in and desire is not just your garden of hope. The archangel feel
because he tried to seek and believe in God centering on himself.
The God that the
people of today believe in is both our God and the God of humanity. He is both
our God and the God of the world. He is both the God of the world and the God
of Heaven and earth. At the same time, he is our universal Parents.
However, if you
examine the faith of the people who believe in Jesus today, they are saying, “Please
be my God,” and those who are a bit better than that do no more than say, “Please
be my family God.” Rising a bit higher from this are those who say, “Please be
the God of our denomination.” We should never have these kinds of concepts.
There are many
denominations in the world today that are crying out for God. However, we do
not need the God who is sought within a denomination. Only when people gather
who transcend the denominations and call out to him as their father centering
on the whole of heaven and earth, can humankind attend God on earth.
Therefore, we today
must let the concepts we have be linked to the whole through our families. You
who have embarked upon a new road must abandon your life up to now and make a
new and historical departure toward the concepts of universal life.
At such time, the
attitude that you should have is the heart that can attend the substantial presence
of the universal God. By doing so, you can receive the love of God and build
the relationship of giving and receiving with God. At such a moment, you can
finally consummate the ideology of the universal bride.
After consummating the
ideology of the universal bride, you can go seeking the restored world. But you
can appear as the bride before the substantial manifestation of the universal
God only after restoring the people and brothers and sisters and the children
and the couples. Only when you reach that position can you stand before the
substantial manifestation of the universal God centering on the love of God
that springs out there and become one with that love. The couple who comes
together in this way is the couple who can dominate this earth and live in the
kingdom of heaven. Moreover, only after you have children as this kind of a
couple can you build the family of the Kingdom of Heaven. When you form a
people with these brothers and sisters and children, you can finally bring the
dispensation of restoration to a conclusion and live the life of the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth.
Likewise, the great
movement of restoring the Kingdom of Heaven is exhibited through you of today.
Therefore, you must increase your efforts toward the realization of that will
and never become servile before Satan. Just as Jesus Christ did all that was
possible as the loyal subject and filial son of God, we must also complete our
duties as the loyal subjects and filial sons.
Excerpt from Sun
Myung Moon Sunday speech, December 30, 1956