Oh, Father! Our grief-filled history has wound itself around us and is moving us along. We know that we who are facing this living environment filled with grief have the awesome mission of dealing with the grief-filled history and of relieving the heart of heaven which is filled with grief.
We who are shouldering this kind of mission must embrace the heart of heaven and earth, and even if we die ten million times feeling your suffering and experiencing your sorrow, we must become sons and daughters who seek to die in a position that is able to console our Father.
At the time Jesus came to the earth, many religious bodies and believers were longing for the Messiah, but they thought the Messiah would come with the ideal appearance that they were hoping for. But the messiah who came was not a messiah of joy; he was a messiah of the encapsulated sorrow of humankind and was a messiah of suffering corresponding to the suffering of human history. We know that at that time there was not a single person who thought that the messiah who came as the representative of the Kingdom of Heaven would appear in that way. We know that history occurs as it has been shown.
We are learning the principle that things are restored by indemnity, that realities that appeared in history are repeated exactly in the last days. We know that it is the responsibility of the saints of the last days to return the oy of a horizontal nature to you, Father, having dealt with horizontally and developed horizontally centered on our selves the sorrowful emotions of the Garden of Eden, the sorrowful emotions of the course of history, and the sorrowful emotions of the vertical flow of history.
Oh, Father! Now we want to offer our loyalty for the sake of the world. We want to establish the welfare of heaven for the sake of all humankind.
Please let us realize that to do that, we must become leading figures who inherit the suffering and sorrow that permeate heaven.
Please let us understand that only those who absorb all suffering and sorrow can appear as heirs of heavenly joy, and please let us endure whether there is sorrow or suffering, and we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become historical sacrifices who go forth saying, "I will die for the sake of the life of the whole."
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
