Father! This morning a lonely group has gathered before you. We must consider on our own the kind of situation we are in. We need to realize clearly through whom we have come here at this time and to form what kind of relationship we have come to this place.
However evil the world may be, and however filthy the world may be, we must examine completely on our own the position we are in, and we must determine our relationship with you, Father, and in the course of our lives establish a relationship with you which cannot be forgotten. We must know that if there is such a person, the relationship that person forms is greater and more precious than anything else in the world.
Our longing for our Father is soaring up out of our hearts adoring hearts longing for heaven of their own accord; these are the driving forces that can go against the flow of history. Please allow us to know that these shields of victory can trample the waves of death and stand over them. We must become those people of true love who know how to feel how precious the 262 people are who can live as substantial testimonies praising you with their minds and bodies.
Now we must analyze ourselves in detail, and think about for whom our faces exist.
We must think about what our eyes are seeing what our ears are hearing, for which tastes and smells our mouths and noses exist, and for which acts of service our hands and feet exist. Please allow us to completely realize that even though we should have been those whose entire being could become truly one with heaven and long for you, Father, and attend you, Father, and be those who were loyal to you, we are those who must grieve from a position of anguish that we have not had even one moment of our minds communicating with you and love.
We, who say we live on this earth, live in a realm of life limited to seventy, eighty years, or at most a hundred years, and then we are buried in the earth.
No matter how good we might look while on earth, we must realize that we cannot bring about any results by ourselves, and we must realize how meaningless is to prepare a living environment only with accomplishments on earth.
We must clearly know that our birth and life and our four limbs and hundreds of body parts all exist due to you, Father. We must understand how very precious we are when we depend only on heaven, and take responsibility ourselves even when there are difficulties, and with a desperate attitude follow your will, pushing our way through a great diversity of difficulties and seeking to relieve your grief.
We must become those who know how to think of our relationship with you when we are in sorrow in such a position, and we must become those who can be grateful to you when we are happy.
We must become true people who desperately weep and proclaim so that all of heaven and earth can be moved that you exist, our living Father, who has been taking on all the difficulties and going forth being driven out again and again in our stead throughout history. And at this moment as well you are not resting, but to save us you are searching for the standard of goodness.
But each time we feel that no one has been able to experience that position, we want to receive your grace, Father, and we long to be able to live a life of grace within you and win your confidence. Father, we who are like that need a relationship with you and need to be governed by you. Therefore, please allow only the glory of your life to rise from the depths of our hearts. We pray in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
