Father, we humans are surrounded by misery with the waves of death rolling over us. But you have been carrying out the providence of the history of struggle while being falsely accused, and you have been working so hard during that long period to bring about the day when you could take pity on the earth. We realize that we could not establish our dignity before you and that we are sinners whom you cannot believe even though you want to.
Now please deliver us from this six-thousand-year history which has been like the affliction in Egypt. Thank you for your promise of the day and the age of glory.
Through history we know well that you had many saints and sages walk the path of tears and blood before others, and it was more than a few times that you ordered the direction they had to go, telling them the path would be like that.
Oh, Father of pity! O,h Father of love! We know it is difficult for you to hold on to this earth and take our hands. We are unprepared and disloyal, but as we have come before your majesty adoring your mercy and longing for your love, please bear with us.
Please pity us who are living our lives on this earth where sorrow and lamentations remain.
Please have pity on us who are struggling with the realities of daily life. Even though we should be those who are concerned with the heart of heaven, we cannot help but look at this land with tears and sorrow. And we cannot help but lament over our hearts which cannot help but weep loudly for the sake of heaven.
I pray that, filled with the kind of heart that longed for the restoration of Canaan, you will clear away, Father, the realm of lamentations of this history of six thousand years of tribulations like the course of the affliction in Egypt.
Humankind has hoped believed and followed. We know that the path has been a course of toil, and the footsteps demanded sorrow. Because it was humankind who committed the act of the fall which caused resentment, we must go whether we want to or not.
Ever since humankind, which is struggling in a pit of despair, knew of the promise of heaven, we have been struggling to get out of this pit of death. But we know that we have not been able to get out from under Satan's command even up to today. Furthermore, we know that even more than anyone else, we are among them.
Now the time has come that to live we must call out to you alone, to our living Father, and the time has come that it will not do unless sons and daughters who give their full loyalty appear for the sake of our Father who has established the Will of the providence.
Therefore, please allow us to have at least earnest hearts that proclaim they will struggle to establish that nation, and today and tomorrow please let us reproach our unprepared selves, deplore our incomplete states, and strike our disloyal selves. Beloved Father, we earnestly hope for and desire this.
Oh, Father! We know well that when the 600,000 people of Israel escaped from Pharaoh's palace, their shout of joy rose to heaven, but later when the soldiers of Pharaoh followed them, they lamented and reproached heaven as they went their way. Today when we come before you, Father, are our hearts filled with joy?
We are afraid that contrary to that heart, a heart that reproaches heaven will grow within us.
Even if we have the sorrow of running into some kind of sadness or some kind of crookedness, and even if our enemies dig pits of sin and lie in wait for us, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will not let us lose the fidelity which becomes the elite soldiers of heaven.
On the way, there will be mountain peaks, gravelly fields, and wastelands, and there will be times when enemies plot against us. Therefore, we earnestly hope and pray that you will allow us to become brave soldiers of heaven who can each feel responsibility in our hearts and charge forward and not reconsider the determination we have already made, and today and tomorrow develop the straight road of the battle until the promised land of Canaan is liberated.
We pray all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
