Cheon Seong Gyeong 717
We human beings were born because of God. The motive for our birth comes through the Creator. We are made by Him, but for what? This is the question. Did He create us because He wanted to leave diamonds to us because He likes them? Did He create us because he wants to bequeath His power, or to pass on all His knowledge because He likes knowledge? What is our origin, our beginning? This is the question. Even if we were to assert ourselves as having originated from the absolute God and being born out of an internal bond with Him, if we do not clearly understand the process for returning to the original homeland in the future, everything now underway will remain unfinished.
The motive for our birth comes from our mother and father. We were born because the lives of our father and mother intertwined. But the inheritance of the characteristics of both parents was not the result of their lives colliding. Beforehand, the fundamental action and motive that connected these two lives together, was love. When we consider the preciousness of life and love, life is in second place, and love is in first place.(177-305, 1988.5.22)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 5
EARTHLY LIFE AND THE SPIRIT WORLD
Chapter 2
Death and the Spirit World
Section 1. The Inevitable Path of Our Life
1.3. Death is inevitable
One day we will go to the spirit world. There is no doubt about that. People visiting Korea land at Gimpo Airport, but that does not mean they have traveled in Korea. From Gimpo Airport, where do we go? Do we go to South Jeolla Province or South Gyeongsang Province or Pyeong-an Province? From Pyeong-an Province, where do we go? To a county. From there, where next? A township. What is next? A village. From there, we must go to a neighborhood. This is not easy. If people cannot determine their dwelling place, what is the value of success in social life? That is a problem.
If God orders me to come, even tomorrow night, no matter how great I may be today, I have no choice but to go. However loudly I might protest, I would have to go. I will go while protesting loudly, but only after speaking the right words. I must present the way that the nation and the world must go. It will be my death if I fail to do so. (177- 41, 1988.5.15)
1.4. God is the owner of life
Who is the origin of life? Not I. Both the origin and the purpose of life must transcend me. My life did not originate from my parents, society, a people or nation but from the transcendent absolute God. The motive must be firmly connected to the transcendent motive that stands in the absolute position. It should not be linked to historical relational factors, environmental relational factors, or social factors. Only when you link your origin to the transcendent cause, the transcendent purpose, can you extricate yourself, make a leap, and transcend. You must link your life to the transcendent motive; it does not begin with yourself.
It began with the absolute God. When you link yourself to the transcendent motive, even if you die, it will be within a transcendent process because of God’s will. (36-63, 1970.11.15)
People don’t live for millennia or centuries. All of us die within a century or so. Among our numerous ancestors who died at various times throughout the innumerable historical ages, if there had been any whose thoughts were motivated by public-spiritedness meeting with universal approval, they would have bequeathed a legacy lasting a millennium even if they lived less than a century. Instead, they all lived selfishly and perished. They brought everything to ruin.
Such a lifestyle causes problems. What is the biggest problem here? It is the question of how to replace an egocentric system of evaluation and orientation with one that serves a higher purpose. It is about how to shift the emphasis from self-centeredness toward that which can benefit the greater good.
We must, therefore, reverse the way of individualism and self-interest. To do so requires resources and action.
If you were wearing your one and only change of clothing, you would fight tooth and nail to stop anyone trying to take it off you. Let’s say you had changes of clothing for each of the four seasons. If it is spring, and people are dressed in winter wear, then bring them spring clothing and tell them, “That’s winter wear. Take it off!” If others are wearing spring clothing in summer, bring them summer clothing and tell them to change. Those people didn’t see the need. They were unaware of the existence of a replacement of greater value. (200-90, 1990.2.24)
On the earth we have parents, teachers and relatives. We have ways to establish such relationships on the earth, but not in the spirit world.
In the spirit world, everyone practices God-centered public-spiritedness. All positions are differentiated. Thus, those above cannot descend below, and those below cannot easily ascend above. Originally we were supposed to go to the spirit world only after achieving perfection on earth. Once we enter the next world, that’s it. There is no doubt that we will die.
Our life course is too short. Life is too short. Even a life span of eighty years is too short. It is less than eight hours in spirit world time. From the perspective of eternity, it is even less than that. Therefore, the power of true love is great. The speed of true love is so great as to be beyond our understanding. (205-65, 1990.7.7)
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