Father! We long for the holy majesty of Jesus of 2,000 years ago. We would come to realize that the desolate world lay before Jesus who was conveying the word, and there were people who were centered on themselves and sought to lift themselves up, but through the gaze of Jesus who looked upon those people, there was an infinitely sorrowful heart flowing.
Oh Jesus, who looked upon Judaism, in which the religious sects were fighting each other, and upon the reality of the believers who argued with each other!
When we reflect on the nature of that era when people struggled to push themselves to the forefront by hiding their faults and revealing others's faults, we understand the infinite sorrow of the mind of Jesus, who truly had come to take responsibility for that world and that age.
We can measure the heart of Jesus who, despite that, called out, "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you." The ones who had to ask, seek, and knock were the people, the religious orders, and the individuals, but those who had to ask did not know how to, those who had to seek did not know how to, and those who had to knock did not know how to.
Jesus, who was watching that, was in a position such that it wouldn't do unless he asked to represent humankind, and he was in a position such that it wouldn't do unless he sought to represent humankind, and he was in a position such that it wouldn't do unless he knocked representing humankind. This was a sorrowful thing, Father.
The Messiah, who was sent and longed for humankind to seek him, was instead in a position where he had to seek, and heaven, which hoped that humankind would attend him, had made preparations through the long course of history, but he was in a position of not being attended by humankind. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow this to be a time when we feel the lonely heart of Jesus.
As Jesus related to humankind on the earth, the situation was such that he could not help but weep and lament, but he hoped that the earth could become such that you could bless it. Please act to manifest the holy majesty of Jesus here before us today, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let us become a group of people who can hear his voice which is commanding us; who can adore, experience and feel keenly his heavenly heart which is silently flowing in his innermost self; and who can bow down and weep.
Since we have raised our hands and have appeared as naked people before you, Father, please have mercy on us. Please do not allow anything other than you in our minds, Father, and please do not allow our hopes, our desires, or any conditions that we request to be anything other than what is yours. We earnestly hope and desire that you will let us become sons and daughters who can live clinging to minds that are filled with your infinite heart and to live experiencing and feeling keenly those minds, and fight together on the side of those minds.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
