Beloved Father, we thought that You were responsible for a world where the hidden heavenly Will was not realized, but we have learned that that responsibility lies also with us because of the Human Fall.
We have come to know that as long as your eternal hope remains, eternal hope also remains within us today. And as long as Your Will for eternal faith remains, the Will for eternal faith remains within us as well.
We understand that as long as the practice of your eternal love has not been realized, the responsibility for realizing the embodiment of eternal love also remains with us today.
To inherit the history of indemnity on this day, we need to inherit the hope of four thousand years and manifest it as the hope of six thousand years, we need to inherit the faith of four thousand years and manifest it as the faith of six thousand years, and we have to inherit the love of four thousand years and manifest it as the love of six thousand years.
Since it remains our responsibility to establish the love of six thousand years as eternal love, please forgive our present insufficiencies and inadequacies. Please forgive our present disloyalty and lack of filial piety. Please forgive us for having raised ourselves high.
Now the time has come to bring to fruition the hope of all people and the faith of all people. It is the time when the love of all people must manifest in one incarnation.
But where has that one substantial embodiment appeared? We are unworthy, but please awaken us to realize that we are to adorn ourselves anew as brides. We know that only at a time like this can the history and toil of Jesus Christ, who achieved spiritual perfection, be brought to external fruition substantially through us. Only at a time like this can the ideal of the Second Coming be made into reality, and a tangible history unfold.
Today, we know that the believers living at the time of the Second Advent in these Last Days must take charge, taking the central role in heaven and on earth. You want to entrust your eternal hope to such people, but we are concerned about whether they are the people in whom your hope should be entrusted.
You would like to entrust your eternal faith to them, but we are concerned about whether they are the people in whom your faith should be entrusted. Furthermore, you want to entrust your eternal love to them, but we are concerned about whether they are the people in whom your love should be entrusted.
Since we have been entrusted with all these things on the Lord's behalf, we now have to stand as the people who have become the tribe of eternal hope, the people who belong to Your love, who are in an eternal, unchanging relationship with You.
We have to stand as the people who have become the tribe of eternal faith, and we have to stand as the people who have become the tribe of eternal love. Please allow us to realize that such a responsibility has been allotted to us.
Today, each of us as individuals is to accomplish the purpose of Jesus Christ, who is the victorious central person of the chosen people of Israel. In other words, we have to prepare ourselves as the embodiments of hope, the embodiments of faith, and the embodiments of love that represent the whole.
Now that the Second Advent has occurred, we need to embody and represent everything Jesus did after he came to earth. We must become the embodiments of the hope of Jesus Christ. We should become his successors in faith and his successors in love. Please allow us to understand this clearly.
Now, faced with the course of restoration through which we have to overcome the Fall, we need to say, Father, we will take charge of Your hope, faith, and love, and we should be able to do so, to return that hope, faith and love to You, our Father.
Furthermore, we ought to be able to stand as the center of unchanging love in front of all people. We know that we will be qualified people, able to represent the final glory of the Last Days, only if we can receive love in Your presence.
Therefore, please allow us to become the people about whom you can say, “You are the ones I have hoped for, the people I can trust, and the people I can love.”
Moreover, we earnestly hope that you will lead us to become victorious children who can receive the grace of the judgment, proclaimed before every created entity in heaven and on earth, and establish the condition of unity.
That is why your joy should translate into the joy of this earth, your love should translate into the love of this earth, and your hope and faith should translate into the hope and faith of this earth.
Please permit us to bring to You, our Father, this horizontal joy of upholding the ideal of the Second Coming, and please work through us so that the glory of achieving Your Will through us can focus on the earth and manifest throughout the world.
We should be able to sing the glory of Moses each day and throughout our lifetime. We hope that you will allow us to unite through the love of Moses.
Since we know that the achievement of Your Will, Father, is the only thing about which all 2.4 billion people of the world plus the millions of believers in the spirit world can boast, we beseech You to allow us to establish hope for that achievement, faith in that achievement, and love for that achievement at the center of heaven and earth. Let this be the condition in which we can eternally take pride. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Aju.
(June 6, 1956)
Sun Myung Moon