Our Course of Life

The purpose of God

God does not have a body, so He wanted to reveal Himself through all the creation as His body, with Adam as His face. This is the ideal of creation.

Originally, God was to be the spiritual focal point, and Adam was to be the physical focal point. These two focal points were to form a ninety-degree angle. This is God’s purpose of creation, and it is the purpose that people desire.

Had Adam and Eve not fallen, they would have occupied the positions of father and mother eternally in the spirit world. But because they fell, they could not do this. Had there been no Fall, everyone could have gone to Heaven simply by attending to their parents as though they were attending God.

This created world is round: the sun, the earth, and the stars are all round. Even our mouths are round. Everything is created that way. Thus, the universe creates relationships by going around and around in circular movements.

Even if one individual thing has a round shape, it does not exist by itself; it exists in a relationship and is connected to the whole.

Then why are we born?

We are born to beat in rhythm with this vast universe. Ocean waves lapping against the shore lap against our hearts as well. Gentle breezes sighing serenely lull our hearts into serenity.

Flowers in bloom release rich fragrances and stir the fragrances in our hearts. If we are born, raised, live, and die in love, then we can be grateful for our birth, life, and death. You all were born because you participated in the place where your father and mother expressed the utmost love for each other. You were participants in that love.

Since you were born through your parents’ love, you consider yourselves born as flags planted by your parents’ love. These flags flutter to express love. We are meant to live for the sake of love throughout our lives.

So you must wave the flag of love for your mother, wave the flag of love when you see your father, and wave the flag of love for your siblings.

The importance of the moment

Your living body cannot be perfected unless your entire existence becomes a foothold for absorbing nutrients. This phenomenon occurs in the natural world.

The crossroads of life do not appear over a long period; they arise at a single moment.

People who ignore the moment cannot obtain anything of value. They cannot become great people or inherit God’s throne and crown. So, to make each moment shine, you need to exercise care with each word you utter, each action you take, and even each thought you have.

Deal with life and resolve problems, believing that the contents of your daily life will remain as phenomena through which you maintain a relationship to the world.

That is the only way the realm of victory is determined. It is currently determined that the victory is determined. It is the same with the historical realm of victory and the cosmic realm of victory.

Those who live with unlimited value capable of making each moment shine brightly can become great people, even saints, and even God’s sons and daughters. In this way, the junction of life and death is crossed in a single moment.

Today our attitude is the concern. Of course, it is necessary to desire first the coming of the kingdom and wish for the Will to be done. Yet, what is more important is how we can become one with God’s Will.

If we refer to a particular hour, it is more significant to ask how we can spend that hour to come into a greater oneness with the Will than it is to simply desire that the kingdom of God be accomplished.

So we first must create the environment, as individuals, families, tribes, and peoples, that will enable us to inherit God’s Will. Only then can we establish a relationship with God’s kingdom.

Then, with God at the center, how can you make a relationship with the Will in this one hour, if you are given an hour, within the sphere of your daily life? This is a significant question.

Looking at the history of the providence of restoration, there were four thousand years from Adam’s family through Noah’s, Abraham's, and Moses’ families up to Jesus’ family. The mistakes that occurred during this course did not happen in the span of, say, a year.

In Adam’s family, the Fall of Adam and Eve was not something planned out and put into action in a year or a decade or even several decades. Their mistakes happened quickly.

When we think of how the breakdown of that one moment has been perpetuated for eons of time, we can understand the fearfulness and dreadfulness of that instant.

Due to the misstep of that one moment, so many people who walked the path of righteousness in the course of history had to undergo untold suffering, and many nations that could not follow the Will fell into the abyss of destruction. All these became a source of a tremendous offering.

When we understand this, we can see how fearful even a single hour that we let just tick by can be. Even the eternal kingdom of heaven does not exist apart from the single moment.

Eternity does not start when we die. It continues from the moment we come to know God’s Will. Here, if there is a leap in the relationship of time or a gap created for even an instant, eternity will be interrupted.

So while walking the path of faith in the course of your lives, do not procrastinate by deferring your providential responsibilities from this year to the next, and then to the year after that; or from your twenties to your thirties, your thirties to your forties; or from your forties and to your fifties.

You must not live this way. People with such a lifestyle will die without having lived even one day in oneness with the Will. They cannot go to the kingdom of heaven.

However wonderful a country you may live in, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven if you are unable to live even one day according to a victorious standard; you cannot enter heaven if you do not live even one year victoriously.

So, while it is important for believers to dream of eternity in their lives, it is even more important for them to eradicate evil and become the standard-bearers of goodness in the real world. This is what is most significant.

From this perspective, Adam’s mistake of one moment resulted in eons of anguish. In Adam’s family, Cain and Abel were supposed to have dissolved the anguish of their parents, demolished the wall between the brothers, and created the starting point for a family of oneness.

However, the death of Abel, who had been set up to fulfill the providence of restoration, also occurred shortly. Consider the course of Noah, who toiled one hundred and twenty biblical years to build the ark.

It was in just one brief moment that God issued the command, “Go into the ark, for the day has come to fulfill My desire.” Those who followed this order received the blessing of the eternal God; those who did not were submerged in a realm of eternal judgment.

It was the same with Abraham. God’s promise that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands on the seashore was bestowed in just a single moment.

Abraham’s sacrificial offering did not require decades, but rather a mere day’s work. The time it took him to cut the offering and place it on the altar was not more than an hour; yet that single hour historically bore the seeds of all life and death, curse and blessing.

People of faith today need not fear the coming of a day of judgment in the Last Days. Instead, worry about how to connect the time that is given to you in your daily life to the Will of God, and how to form an intersection between your life and the Will.

Infancy and three orderly stages

If God created Adam and Eve, how did He do it? If He created them from the soil, what kind of soil was it? Where did He begin? Which part of the body did He create first? We cannot think that God created them as adults.

He created them as babies. Without the notion that God went through the same process as a mother, who conceives a child in her womb, gives birth to it, and then nourishes it, we cannot logically explain the formation of all existence through the three orderly stages of growth.

So Adam and Eve must have had a period when they were infants. Later, they went through a growth stage. This is the heavenly principle. Then there must have been a completion stage.

What was Adam and Eve’s infancy like? We must proceed from the concept that the invisible God nurtured and raised a baby who was able to go through a process extending from the world without form to the world with form.

Our life course

Since the society, nation, and world in which we live are far from ideal, all manner of suffering occurs, and good and evil are at cross purposes.

If we were to look at a hundred people, we would find them all struggling against their surroundings and pushing against their environment to carry on their daily lives.

Our experience in our daily lives tells us that no one can be confident that daily tasks planned in the morning will be accomplished during that day. The wider the environment in which we work, the greater the drive and determination needed to bring a victorious conclusion to each day of our lives.

If these are lacking, the day cannot be a day of victory. Such days turn into months and months into years. We lack the environment to live for even one month according to our plan.

To bring about victory for a month, we need the drive and determination necessary to break through all the complicated situations and circumstances we meet during that month. Otherwise, we cannot carry out our plan for the month victoriously.

Getting through a year successfully requires us to be equipped with a fighting spirit or driving force that can thrust aside all the challenges of every one of its three hundred sixty-five days.

Otherwise, we cannot celebrate that year victoriously. If we live a year like that and continue in this vein, eventually it will add up to ten, and then twenty, and then thirty years, and that eventually becomes our life course.

People living on Earth today cannot escape the constraints of time. That has been true throughout history. Individuals, families, tribes, people, nations, and the world all move within the realm of time.

Wherever there are people, there are always purposes to accomplish. We need to live our lives with those purposes at the center for ten, twenty, thirty, seventy years and, indeed, our entire lives.

The greater our goal, the stronger our internal commitment needs to be. Otherwise, we will not accomplish those purposes.

Unless we maintain an internal determination that surpasses the goal through the process called time, the goal will be unattainable.

The original homeland

You may not know the reality of the spirit world; however, I enjoy the special benefit from God of having a clear insight into that unknown world. When I went down to the fundamental level of that world, I found it was based on simple principles.

It is a world that can be entered only by those who live for the sake of others, which is God’s principle for heaven and earth. The world structured along these lines is the ideal heavenly kingdom.

That place is the original homeland that humankind must seek. Today, although we are exiles from our original homeland and live in a fallen environment, we are destined to return there. Throughout history, God has worked to create a path enabling us to return because we could not do so by our own efforts.

This is why God raised many religions. They are training grounds through which He has been directing all people along that path, whatever their race, cultural background, customs, and traditions.

Religions are the training grounds for preparing people to become eligible to return to the original homeland.

Considering the diverse cultural backgrounds of people across the globe, God is leading humanity toward a united world of religion that can progress upward onto higher ground.

If religions were to guide people to such a homeland, what would they teach? They must teach people to live for the sake of others. The more highly developed a religion is, the more it emphasizes this principle.

These religions teach their adherents to be gentle and meek, to stand in a position to elevate others, live for their sake, and serve them sacrificially. All this serves to instill in us the discipline we need to abide by the laws of the kingdom of heaven.

What is our life path?

It is the path of possessing God’s love. Possessing God’s love is life’s highest and final destination. Men must go this path, and women must go as well. Everyone must go this way.

Our life path is to seek the God of infinite love. The loftiest path for our lives is the path that seeks God’s love by crossing over the peaks of death tens and even hundreds of times, and continues in that search even after death.

What is the endpoint of our desires?

It is to possess God’s love. Even if we say we know God, unless this brings us a more precious love than we have known before, we cannot say that God is our God. We need to come to experience God’s love.

If we only had God’s love, it would be all right even if He were not present. Once we have God’s love, what is His becomes ours, and ours becomes His, and the internal and the external become as one for the first time. A nation based on such love would be an ideal homeland, with no such thing as higher and lower classes.

When we are surrounded by that place of love, we feel there is nothing under the sun that does not appear good and that does not exist for our sake. Because God’s love is like that, the heavenly world, which is humankind’s destination – the kingdom of heaven – is a place filled with love.

The wrong standard of birth

People in today's world may boast that they are high and important or tell you about their academic degrees, but what they do not realize is that they were misbegotten at birth. They do not know that they were born with the love, life, and lineage of Satan, God’s enemy.

This is a serious problem. Due to the Fall, people have been born from Satan’s love, which was passed down to them through their parents. Satan’s blood was flowing in the life of our mothers and the life of our fathers, and that blood now flows in each person. Each person is a fruit of this lineage.

For this reason, each of you belongs to the lineage of Satan. In other words, you could say that Satan’s blood is running through your veins. So while Satan is bearing his corrupt fruit automatically, God is striving to redeem those very men and women by transforming them into the pure and perfected people of His original vision. Your beginning was in Satan’s love.

You were born from his lineage. The beginning was wrong. Since the beginning was wrong, you must return to the original point. So we are going to go back. To where exactly do we go back?

We need to go back to the origin. Since we originated from false parents, we must return and start anew from true parents. How serious is this? It is imperative to inherit God’s love, life, and lineage afresh.

This is why, when you receive the Blessing, you undergo a ceremony to change your lineage. You must believe in this more than your life.

Just because it is a Unification Church ceremony, you must not consider it to be some ordinary ritual. Think of it as a wonder drug, an antidote, to restore the dead to life.

Our ancestors made a mistake. Because of this, countless people throughout human history have suffered. Knowing this, we cannot go down that same path again. Never again!

We paid a ghastly price throughout history for having perpetuated illicit love in the fallen spirit and earthly worlds, with far-reaching consequences for individuals, families, societies, nations, and the world.

The standard of our life course

When I say “life,” I mean eternal life. I am referring to the spirit world and to the life we live for eternity. Each individual was created to be an object partner of God’s love. You are an object partner of the absolute God, who is the subject partner. You are His love partner.

God cherishes the notion of true love more than He values Himself. God is the absolute and eternal center of life. His ideal is eternal, and the center of that ideal is true love.

The object partner of that love is you. An attribute of love is that it brings subject and object partners into oneness. Such love can unite a nation. In this partnership, one partner can accompany the other in any situation and follow unconditionally.

God’s partner can inherit His entire fortune and even His entire heart. I went through a miserable course to discover this, and I now stand on that sublime and lofty foundation, which cannot be exchanged for anything. This is an amazing grace.

For that reason, I can stand in the same place as God and share the eternal position of true love. The spirit world is in a different dimension from this limited earthly world.

We cannot move freely within our mundane confines here on earth, but the spirit world is in a higher dimension. There we can do anything; we can leap across time.

If we desire anything with a heart of love, we can have it anywhere, at any time. We were created originally as eternal beings.

If we become eternal beings of true love, when we go to the spirit world, we will be free. The first standard of life is to overcome evil with goodness; the second is to reach the original starting point; and the third is to attain eternal life.