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#206-God Is the Standard of Righteousness
Cheon Seong Gyeong 2147
The Fall, having constituted a wrongful marriage in the Garden of Eden, is now being reversed by the True Parents through rightful marriages. Clearing up the mess created by the false parents, the True Parents are abolishing hell and blessing billions of ancestors in the spirit world, and restoring the true parent-child relationship centering on true love and bequeathing the original true love, true life, and true lineage. In this way, the ownership of the model of true love of the eight stages, which is God’s ideal of creation, is perfected; that is, we establish the eternal, unchanging, true love tradition by going through true gestation, infancy, fraternity, adolescence (engagement), conjugality, parenthood, grandparenthood, and finally kingship. Upon this foundation, we can perfect the model of true love, the parent-child relationship.
God’s absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal love, life, and lineage are the unchanging model of true love to be inherited by infinite generations of our descendants. True love is central to oneness between parents and children, husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters. Parents become the owners of love through their children, husbands through their wives, and elder siblings through their younger siblings.
Through the Holy Wine Ceremony, and then the Blessing, which were given to us by True Parents we change our lineage and then fulfill God’s original ideal of creation.
Cheon Seong Gyeong 895
There are no boundaries in the mind. When we think about God, even He does not have any boundaries in His mind. Consequently, God can go anywhere. If He wants to go to heaven, He can go there. If God wants to go to hell, He can go there. He can go anywhere. That means there are no borders in the mind of God. (124-184, 1983.2.15)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 3
Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life
Summary:
Today, many people view social interactions as a nuisance, but treating others as an annoyance prevents you from walking a spiritual path. True religious life requires you to act as a representative of God’s love, building horizontal relationships with others using all five of your senses and a heart full of vitality. Because God’s goal is to care for and restore all people across the entire world, you must share that same deep concern for humanity without being greedy or selfish. Ultimately, your value as a human being is decided by how much love you invest in your social life, which includes being willing to pray, cry, and even sacrifice yourself to help take away the sins and evils of others.
Section 10. Social Relationships
10.2. Social relationships
Today, people do not pay enough attention to each other. In horizontal relationships, it is rare that people pay respect to each other centering on the horizontal connection. Regardless of sex or age, everyone has the attitude that dealing with people is annoying. If you view people as a nuisance, then you can never walk the heavenly way. (25-291, 1969.10.5)
I believe that the life of religious people should be one where they become united with God, stand as the representatives of God’s love before creation and this world, and expand and connect the horizontal relationships to the whole environment, based on a standard of love. This should be connected and established in your lives. To do so, you should establish relationships with other people with the heart of God. (82- 275, 1976.2.1)
When people meet, it is just like the balls that collide with each other on a billiard table, isn’t it? This is interesting. Our encounters with people take on a similar action. You get the feeling that when you face each other, you are drawn together as one and then pushed away again. When you kick a soccer ball, don’t you feel good if it goes up and down and changes direction in every way? It is the same with human relationships. (91-81, 1977.1.30)
The question of how much value we have as a human being is determined by the level of investment by all our five senses into our life and love. Therefore, we cannot help asking ourselves whether we have established relationships and led a social life with vitality and a heart of deepest love. You should know that if you do not stand in such a position, you are in a state of suspension or retreat. (32-19, 1970.6.14)
For God’s providence of restoration, the Republic of Korea is not the only place that God needs. He needs all of the people in the world. For this reason, God is deeply concerned about people. So far, this has been the most important goal in God’s providence. Since we are a group of people who are gathered for the sake of achieving this goal, we must stand in the same position as God and have the same degree of concern toward all people. (25-291, 1969.10.5)
You should not be greedy when relating to others. (33-143, 1970.8.11)
In order to become good, you should not think that you have nothing to do with the evils of others. You should suffer for them, and pray throughout the night with tears for them, and live with the determination to offer a sacrifice of atonement for their sins. Such a person will surely become their central figure. (34-130, 1970.8.30)
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Daily Inspiration Discussion Forum
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