Our Value in Unity with God

1. When God, searching for love, created His object partners, whom do you think He wanted them to resemble?

God created them to resemble Himself. To do so, they should reflect His masculine and feminine characteristics. This is where the logic of the dual characteristics originates.

God also drew upon His original internal nature and His original external form and manifested His invisible thought as form, having it unfold substantially in human beings. Hence, the Book of Genesis is correct in stating that God created human beings in His image. (170-169, 1987.11.15)

2. God needs human beings. It is not just that He loves to look at our faces. God loves us not because we have beautiful eyes or good features, or because we resemble Him in outward appearance.

God requires and loves us because we have an eternal value as His object partners of true love, with whom He can experience joy for eternity. Hence, on the day when we manifest this value as God's partners, on the day we bring forth this value and become partners in perfect harmony with God, on that day God will be able to burst into laughter for the first time.

Just as you do not talk to yourself, God does not talk to Himself; He requires someone to talk to. The human ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have become those partners for God. (127-012, 1983.05.01)

3. God treasures human beings above all else because they are the object partners of His love. That is why God's love is the most precious thing for us. No matter how much love God may have within Him, He cannot feel it without having partners to love.

He can experience His love only in a relationship with a partner. It is because we are in the position of these object partners that God cherishes human beings the most. (143-309, 1986.03.21)

4. God has longed for tens of thousands of years to have human beings as His partners. His relationship with them is the foundation of the cosmos. It is a relationship that connects God and human beings both internally and externally.

Thus, it establishes the worldview of vertical love and horizontal love. This worldview holds that vertical love and horizontal love unfold by forming relationships of above and below, and left and right. God can then reside at the very center of these relationships.

The place where God and human beings bind most tightly together is the center where vertical love and horizontal love meet. Unless their vertical love and their horizontal love join as one, neither of these two kinds of love can manifest the standard of love's ideal. (48-224, 1971.09.19)

5. Human desire knows no bounds. We want to possess even God. How we can satisfy that desire is true love. The one unique love that God has hidden away can be ours. Since we have the original nature of desiring to possess God, we would like to become the best in the world.

This is our right as human beings, for we are only seeking to fulfill our original value. God is the King who created the cosmos. Hence, when we become sons and daughters who have God as our Parent, we all will be brothers and sisters under His kingship.

Then God's kingdom will be our kingdom. The responsibility of the sons and daughters, to whom you give birth after receiving the Blessing, is to create parent-daughter unity, parent-son unity, and, when they are blessed, husband-wife unity.

You have to raise your children so that they can do that. All this is to deal with the most fundamental issue of the relationship between man and woman.
(218-133, 1991.07.14)

6. Why do human beings view themselves as the center of the created world? It is because the whole world was created for love. Men and women represent God's love for the rest of creation.

They stand in the central position before the Lord, with the privilege of receiving His love first. For this reason, it is said that human beings are the “lords of creation.” However, it is impossible to say that we are lords of creation without recognizing that in the first place, we are God's partners of love.

The unique value of human beings stems from the privilege of being the primary recipients of God's love, representing the entire of the created world. It is because we stand in the position of God's number one partners that we are given the authority to participate in His love, share it with the universe,e and rule the universe with it. Without love, it would all be nothing. (132-245, 1984.06.20)

The realm where God and human beings are united in love

7. Human beings have been seeking God. Throughout the six thousand years of history, we have been moving toward God, not further away. Regarding this relationship, one partner needs to represent plus and the other partner needs to represent minus.

Plus cannot connect to plus, and minus cannot connect to minus. There has to be a relationship between the two. That is why we use the expression “heaven and earth,” as well as above and below, front and back, and left and right. When we speak of heaven and earth, front and back, or right and left, each of us places ourselves in the middle. Overall, then, everything depends on me.

From this standpoint, it is not for God to seek the highest standard of character or to seek one world; rather, I must do it. I am the one who must pursue it. In this sense, human beings are the center of the universe. That is why human beings need to become one body with God, and that is why both God and human beings aspire to become one.

God has that hope, as He hopes to create a point of oneness with human beings. We call that point the oneness of heaven, earth, and humankind. We human beings have to attain it. (27-049, 1969.11.23)

8. When God created all things in the Garden of Eden, He made them with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Then, with human beings of absolute faith, absolute love,e, and absolute obedience, God wanted to form a realm where God and human beings are one in love. Once God and human beings are in love, together they can build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.

There we can freely exercise all authority as children of the absolute God. It is a world of freedom, where we can travel anywhere. When we can do all this, then and only then can we liberate God. (301-085, 1999.04.16)

9. In the family, parents are joined in a marriage centered on love. The Korean expression, Husband, and wife are one body is not only about the man, nor is it only about the woman. Nor is it about their family. It simply means that the husband and wife are one because of their love for each other.

The same is true for the expression, “Father and son are one body.” Although people use that expression, a father and son cannot become one body. It means that their love for each other is so great that they will never separate. Because of love, they cannot be separated ever, for all eternity.

That is why it is reasonable to conclude that they are “one body.” By the same token, if the first human beings had not fallen, God and they would have become one body.

They would have become one body as Heavenly Father and His children. Then the man and woman, after growing up in the love of their Heavenly Parent, would have become one body as husband and wife.

The family they formed would have realized the ideal of one body because they would have entered the state of one body centering on God's love.
(187-105, 1989.02.05)

10. When I probed into the fundamental truths of the cosmos, I agonized most over the question of how love moves and settles. My questions were answered when I discovered one plain truth: true love travels the shortest distance. When true love descends from heaven to earth, what route do you think it takes?

The shortest route travels straight down the vertical line perpendicular to the earth. Since love takes the fastest and shortest route, there can be only one meeting point between the heavenly world and the plane of the earthly world.

There cannot be two such points; there can be only one. (211-078, 1990.12.29)

11. We aspire to become the outer God, with the inner God abiding within us. Everyone harbors this aspiration to become one with God. The ideal of creation is the realization of the four-position foundation.

The four-position foundation is realized when Adam and Eve become one with God through love. Within it, God is present in all relationships – above and below, left and right, and front and back.

Thereby God's love and human love are perfected. This is the perfection of God and human beings united in love. They become one body. (276-254, 1996.02.24)