Father! From time immemorial, when the saints and sages talked about the Kingdom of Heaven, they did not talk about it from a position of vying with their enemies, expressing all their wrath and anger from a position of being infuriated.
Rather, we have come to realize that they forgot themselves even in front of their enemies' swords, and they, spoke from the position of quietly longing for and worshiping heaven, from the position of being embraced peacefully in the bosom of heaven, and from the position of transcending the environment of their enemies.
Today sin is seething up, and in this reality where the forces of Satan are closing in around us in this place were the historical enemy is stalking us, who is there who is going forth with a happy mind and a happy body not minding the enemy, praising your holiness, and intoxicated with your sublime and precious nature, living and dying for a thousand and ten thousand years?
We must realize that only those who can stand firmly, asking, “Who can take away the authority we have as the chosen people?” are members of the Kingdom of Heaven.
To follow the Will of Jesus who was sad and shed tears alone as a solitary person on the difficult path of the cross, we must know the historical fact that even in lives of continuous famine and starvation, and even when being driven into miserable pits, the patriots of old did not submit even to the afflictions of heaven and earth.
We come to know the truth that Jesus endured everything to build the Kingdom of Heaven, and even when being whipped and killed, his determination was not broken.
We must genuinely learn the truth that only the people who go forth carrying the banner of victory can form a relationship with the Kingdom of Heaven and can possess the Kingdom of Heaven.
No matter how anxious we may be, or how lonely we may be, or how pitiful a situation we may be in, when we think that you, our Father, are even more pitiful than we are, we have come to realize that considering that fact we must become sacrifices and comfort you, our Father, who is more pitiful than we are.
As for attending to your father and in pursuing the duty of filial piety, you are a being who has the heart of a parent and who can communicate to us your position, your situation, and your circumstances.
And when we think that when you ask us to become filial children you are asking us to go the way of death, and when you ask us to become loyal followers you are asking us to go a thorny path which rips and tears at us, we must feel how very lonely your footsteps have been as you, who are in the position of our parent, came to this earth.
Knowing that you are our father and, even though you came with that kind of Will in your heart, you were unable to ask us to realize that Will, we must feel a ripping pain which spreads deep into our hearts. Please let us become people who struggle to become children who can need you alone, Father, and who are true people regardless of what direction of the 360 degrees we go, and who can comfort you by inheriting the single direction of your innermost heart.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
Sun Myung Moon