The God of Heart

1. God is the subject partner of the heart. For this reason, God experiences the emotions of deepest sorrow and greatest joy. It is not true that God has only joyful and pleasant emotions. When He is sorrowful, His sorrow is deep and wide, beyond what any human being can fathom. (11-089, 1961.02.12) 2.

God, who created us, is not only the Lord of our mind and body. He can also stand in the position of the Lord and subject partner of our thinking and the world of our emotions.

Furthermore, He is also the Lord and subject partner of our inner heart. We need God to be like this. In our consciousness and emotions, we need Him absolutely, not just conceptually. The fact that we have lost this Lord, our God, is our sorrow. (7-048, 1959.07.12)

God is the Lord of our heart

3. God is the eternal Lord of our body and our heart. In the original world, if a husband and wife say that no matter how much they love each other, they love God even more, neither will feel resentful. The kingdom of heaven is the world in which we can rejoice that our spouse loves God more than us.

God, who is in the position of subject partner transcending any kind of love and any circumstances, is the eternal Lord of our body. Therefore, if we are embraced in the bosom of God, who owns our body, and thus dwells in His garden, we will be happy even when we die. (7-255, 1959.09.20)

4. God stands in the vertical position based upon the true internal heart. He is our Father. Then who are the True Parents? Through the horizontal heart, they are one man and one woman who become Father and Mother, the supporting beings whose relationship supports the perpendicular line.

This perpendicular line should not be bent. There is, however, a way by which Satan can invade. To protect against this, the central line should be reinforced by the bone and flesh of love.

Heavenly Father, the vertical God, is in the position of the bone of love, and True Parents are in the position of the flesh of love. The supporting beings, the True Parents, are determined and centered on the core entity, God.
(177-072, 1988.05.15)

5. Works based on the heart are not related to the physical body but spring from the heavenly heart: They arise from Heaven's heart in their origin, in their process, and their result.

Therefore, unless we become like unfallen Adam and Eve, people who can inherit God's lineage, who are created as the body of God, and who connect to God's love, we cannot attain a victorious foundation of heart.
(043-187, 1971.04.30)

6. Originally, Adam and Eve should have been people who were content to be in God's embrace and grateful for everything, communicating with God in daily life and overflowing with God's hope. When God saw that they were not going this way, His inner pain far exceeded their inner misery. Our ancestors were unaware of this. (15-102, 1965.10.03)

7. Today, with what heart do we venture out? With what eyes do we observe the world? With what senses do we feel? Before you think about this, you should pray, “God, as I lead my life I am dealing with these kinds of sensations.

Yet, I want to lead my life understanding the heart of Adam and Eve toward You before the Fall, the heart they had at the time of the Fall, the heart You experienced when You had to expel Adam and Eve, the heart with which You toiled hard for humanity for 1,600 years until You called Noah, and Noah's heart as he worked for 120 years bearing ridicule and persecution, holding on to Heaven to build the ark on top of a mountain. I want to know Your heart throughout all the twists and turns of history, and hold on to that heart.” (5-175, 1959.01.18)

8. The question is how we empathize with God's feelings in our daily lives. When you are alone, you should be able without forethought to call out to God, “Father!” Then you will feel God's reply, “Yes, I am here!” If you are one with God, that's how it will be. It appears that no one is around, but someone is leading and guiding you.

If you live such a life, you never question God's existence. When you face difficulties, you know God will protect and guide you. Knowing this, you cannot desert Him. (59-321, 1972.07.30)

9. Even God has emotion, intellect, and will. If human beings, whom God created, have emotions, intellect, and will, God undoubtedly has these attributes as well. We earthly human beings are the descendants of fallen ancestors.

However, we originate from God's lineage, as His direct children are related by blood. For this reason, God's heart toward us has an intensity greater than that of any parent looking for his or her lost child.

God sees us weeping bitter tears for the earth, collapsing and dying in pain and lamenting in deep grief and sorrow, and all these images are etched into His heart. Any individual, family, or nation that ridicules, oppresses, or kills virtuous people will not last long because God will remember their deeds.

Hence, whenever we shed tears, we should know that God is also shedding tears. We also should know that whenever we feel furious and bitter towards an enemy, God is shedding tears of forgiveness.

God does not take revenge upon an enemy and say, “You scoundrel, I'm glad you are dead.” God does not strike us because He does not consider us His enemies.
(10-243, 1960.10.16)

10. God is struck first and then claims what is His. You should be the same. Because of us, God has had to endure the miserable course of the providence. We need to understand God's heart in history, always wanting to say to us, “I want to talk to you; I want to work with you.” God does not forget us; He waits for us. So we have to think to ourselves, “God, when can I participate in Your providence of restoration?”

We have to find the platform upon which we can live together with God. We have to find a way to think like God, speak like God, and act like God.
(12-059, 1962.10.07)

11. God is the Creator of all things, but He is also our true Father. That true Father will come to find us. No matter what difficulties we face, we have to keep on going. We have to persevere as we overcome the twists and turns of destiny to grasp our true Father's hand.

We have to persevere until we call out, as our last words, “My Father!” with our hearts overflowing with the hope that He maintained throughout history, and we maintained throughout life.

We have to march on, even if we face the path of death. In the Last Days, when a group of people appears among all humankind that runs excitedly to the Creator and absolute God, calling Him “my Father,” God's new providential work will begin. (11-089, 1961.02.12)

12. What is the ultimate purpose behind our striving for higher goodness, greater beauty, and deeper love? It is to build a relationship in heart with God, our Creator. As we do, we need to examine whether agreement exists between God's heart, which moves based on relationships in accord with heavenly law, and the human heart, which moves in accord with human morality.

We find that they are often in conflict and discord. Morality in today's society is going in a different direction from that taken by heavenly law, which manifests according to the path of providence. This is a result of the Fall. We must comprehend the sorrowful fact that, because of the Fall, the heart of God, the heart of heavenly law, and the heart of human morality conflict.

When we grasp that this is the real situation besetting us, our society, and our world, we have to halt on the path on which we have been walking. We need to envision a world of creation revived, envision the heart of the Creator, take a second look at the reality of our society, and review our mind and body. Otherwise, the world based on a new teaching and a new heart will not appear in human history. (5-341, 1959.03.08)

13. If you want to be a brave soldier for God, you have to know God's heart. After all, if you want to be a patriot, you have to know the king's heart. If you want to be a son or daughter of filial piety, you have to know your father's and mother's heart. Naturally, you have to know God's heart if you want to be a brave soldier for God.

You have to know the heart of God before creation, His heart during the process of creation, and His grieving heart after the Fall.

You have to understand the sorrowful heart with which He has been leading human history toward restoration, and His heart of hope for a new world after restoration is completed. (14-174, 1964.10.03)

14. God's heart, as we in the Unification Church understand, is long, wide, and deep. We need to understand God's heart before creation, His heart at the time of creation, and His heart after Adam and Eve fell. We need to understand the huge nail driven into God's heart at Adam and Eve's Fall.

We need to understand how deeply God has grieved since the Fall, and how plaintive His heart has been as He walked the path of restoration. We need to understand how brokenhearted our Heavenly Father has been as He sent His children along the tragic path of death, leading them through a course requiring much endurance to restore the world.

Guided by God's final central figure, we must ultimately clean up the sinful world and liberate God from His heartfelt pain and sorrow. Only then will God's Will be accomplished. (14-176, 1964.10.03)

15. The history of the providence of restoration shows us that God has been bringing fortune to the world. In the beginning, God created the vast universe and placed Adam and Eve at its center.

When God created Adam and Eve, He made them with all the elements of His creation, and then He bestowed even more upon them. The most important gift that He gave them was heart. The heart is the center of the four-position foundation, and its core is love. The heart is the core and most important base for all beings. (19-075, 1967.12.29)

16. What is the difference between a heart and love? We usually consider love to be a feeling like floating in the air, and we think of the heart as related to the soul. But in fact, the heart extends in four directions.

Therefore, the heart, more than love, is central to everything. The heart manifests as the result of having gone through the process of love. The heart is thus the center of the multidimensional world.

That is why the Unification Church envisions and strives to create a world of heart more than a world of love. The center of everything is the heart, and the family is necessary for cultivating it. We cultivate the four realms of heart in the family, and they must connect and unite centering on God.

This connection and unity expands from the levels of the individual and family to the community, nation, and world. Thus, restoration cannot be completed without a heart because, without it, no one can establish the central position.
(19-075, 1967.12.29)

The God of heart

17. The God of heart has been sorrowful throughout six thousand years of history. He felt wronged by the disbelief of our ancestors. Now we should offer prayers that comfort God, who feels so wronged and sorrowful.

This is why God is saddened when He faces the attitude of the people of the Second Israel, who are scattered around the world. In this time, God needs a group of people to emerge who can grab Him by the sleeve and say, “Father, is it true that You have come to be so woeful and to feel so wronged in heart?”

God will grasp their hands and respond, “Yes, my sons, my daughters!”
(010-350, 1960.11.27) 18.

The Bible includes the epistles written with symbols and parables that refer to the bridegroom seeking the bride. Why has this symbolic message been so difficult to decipher? It is because it is from the God of heart.

Not everyone can comprehend the meaning of the Bible. Only the bride and bridegroom themselves can decipher it. Only those who are ready to attend God wholeheartedly can understand.

Those who are not prepared will not grasp it. What is the true meaning of this embedded message? It shows the passage to the door through which the bridegroom enters the heart.

Parents' hearts for their children remain the same from the time the mother nurses her baby to the time the child has grown old and gray-haired. The heart does not change. (8-305, 1960.02.14)

19. Christians say, “Oh yes! Christ must come again on the clouds.” How awesome that would be! If it were true, people like us would not have to suffer. If that were the kind of faith we were supposed to have, our faith would surpass that of any minister or church elder.

As for offering devotion, we would offer more than anyone else. But if the Lord were to come on the clouds, what would he do? When we examine Christian history, we see that Christians have focused on spiritual matters, and many willingly gave up their lives for Christ.

Because Christianity had no earthly foundation, Christians had to suffer tribulation and death at the hands of sovereigns in many nations. Looking at this alone, we could feel wronged and angry.

Nevertheless, if the Lord were to come again spiritually, on the clouds, what would he do? Would he save only the Christians, secreting them away, while abandoning the non-Christians?

God is not that kind of being. As in the biblical parable of the prodigal son, God celebrates His prodigal son more than his dutiful first son. Such is God's heart. (021-040, 1968.09.01)

20. Let us understand clearly that although God is the great Lord and King, He has been starved in heart for six thousand years. We have to comfort God. Although God has felt like destroying this world with one stroke of judgment, He has held on to His purpose, His hope, and His desire for the earth.

Keeping that in His sights, He has persevered as He suffered again, again and again. This is the God we must call our Father. We must call Him our Father not as a name or title, but because we feel that way about Him in our hearts.

A new teaching must emerge on this earth that will move people to relate as blood kin, parents, and brothers and sisters on a global scale. As they do, they can learn loyalty to God, creating a bond with God in their heart that enables them to act centering on Heaven's heart. This heart is beyond time and space, beyond peoples and nations. Without such a teaching, this world will break apart.
(9-075, 1960.04.10)

21. Now human beings have nowhere to go. But we have to face a showdown, so we cannot just wallow in despair. Now a movement of truth has to arise, inspiring us to advance into a new heaven and earth with the genuine truth.

We need a standard-bearer who can guide us on this only path of life, to clean up our deplorable environment, which we face with hopeless despair, and to pursue the true way.

We have been following this or that ideology, looking for the truth. It is only when the complete truth emerges that this world can be united completely. Once we learn this truth, we can and must perfect our character and our hearts.
(16-253, 1966.06.19)

22. Through heart, we need to understand God throughout history. God was a God of heart when He created all things of creation. We need to understand God's heart at the time of creation, after the Fall, and during history.

You believe in God, but do you understand His heart? You need to. Next, you have to understand God's hope in each age as well as His heart in each age. In this way, you can come to understand God's heart for the future. (16-253, 1966.06.19) 23.

We have to feel the sorrowful heart of God. He had to watch Jesusdieg on the cross after striving to fulfill his mission with such intense devotion and dedication. Jesus came for the sake of humankind and the universe. He came to dissolve God's sorrow, complete God's Will, and subjugate Satan.

But disbelievers hounded Jesus from one comer to another, and in the end, he had to carry the cross on Golgotha. Can you imagine Jesus' heart at that time? Yet even when he understood that God's promise and desire, of which he was the center, would be shattered, and his life would end on the cross, Jesus did not betray God.

He remained loyal and devoted to God to the end. No one believed in Jesus, but he paid no heed to this. He kept moving forward, bonded to Heaven on the path toward his life goal. Ultimately, Jesus' historic life became the path of hope for humankind. (3-174, 1957.10.25) 24.

If God feels bitter sorrow toward the fallen world, it is because there are no true parents, true couples, or true children. This is God's lamentation. That is why Paul said that human redemption is as adopted children. They are only adopted. So, no matter how good you are, you still are an adopted child.

This you need to understand. Then what is God's sorrow? It is that the children of His direct lineage were degraded to be merely adopted, children. Thus, human history has been a sorrowful course to restore fallen children to the children of God's direct lineage.

You can attend to God closely only when you grasp His heart. This begins with grasping God's sorrow throughout history. When you love and raise your children, as a parent, you can come to feel God's heart. Furthermore, when you feel true love between husband and wife, you should be able to feel God's original love.

Then, your children should feel it through loving you, their parents. We need a teaching of goodness, and when that standard appears on earth, we should embody that standard of goodness.

Today, we live according to our relative viewpoints, but based on the true parental heart of love, we will be able to stand as subject partners who can become the center of value, the center of life, the center of thought, and the center of love.
(4-310, 1958.10.05)

God, the True Parent, True Teacher, and True Owner

25. God's perfection was to have come through Adam's family, centered on love. That is, human beings perfect God. However, God's love is what perfects human beings. This is the ideal of oneness between God and human beings. A parental heart is the heart of living for the sake of others.

Where their beloved children are concerned, the parent's way of life is to invest in everything and forget what they have given. There is a Korean expression that the king, the teacher, and the father share the same values.

We call this oneness of king, teacher,r and father the “three great subject partners principle” God owns the three great subject partners principle. In other words, God is the Father of all fathers, Teacher of all teachers, and King of all kings. (259-279, 1994.04.10)

26. God is the True Parent of parents, True Teacher of teachers, and True King of kings. God is the eternal True Parent, eternal True Teacher, and eternal True Owner.

To become a child of God, we first have to become a true parent like God. We have to go the way of a true teacher, like God, and then the way of a true owner, like God. This is the three great subject partners principle. God is the ultimate exemplar. (299-114, 1999.02.07)

27. Who is the center of the three great subject partners principle? It is the Parent. You have to become a parent-like teacher and a parent-like king. God is the Parent of parents and King of parents.

This means you have to become God-like parents and teachers. This is the three great subject partners principle, which will remain in heaven and on earth to the end. (213-046, 1991.01.13)

28. The three great subject partners principle means that fulfilling any one role leads to fulfilling all three subject partner roles. Since the three great subject partners principle implies that each of the three can be in the position of subject partner, when you are a true parent, it follows that you are also a true teacher and a true owner.

Similarly, when you become a true teacher, you also become a true parent and a true owner; and when you become a true owner, you will find that you are a true teacher and a true parent as well. This is inherent in the three great subject partners principle.

The three have equal value. God is our True Parent and, at the same time, our True Teacher and True Owner. What kind of teacher is He? He teaches us while caring for us, over and over again. What kind of owner is He? He does not try to possess everything and make it his own. Rather, He gives us everything, even Himself.

He tells us, “You will become the owner.” If we were to sum this up in one sentence, that sentence would be: “I will give birth to you, raise you, and make you an owner.”

In short, God gives us birth, nurtures us, and establishes us as owners. So it begins with God. Having created us, God intended to nurture us and elevate us to a position higher than His own, as children who would love on His behalf. As the Owner of the cosmos, he intended to make us owners. (204-222, 1990.07.11)

29. God's ideal of creation is the ideal of the family. He intended to build His family. To form a family, you need to give birth to children, nurture them, and help them establish themselves in life.

This is what parents do. God is the same. God is in the position of the True Parent; from this, the three great subject partners principle emerges. The first role is to be a true parent, the second is to be a true teacher, and the third is to be a true owner. We should take this as our creed for daily life. (204-045, 1990.06.29) 30.

God owns the three great subject partners principle. God is the Parent. We also need our True Parents to be our True Teachers. In this confusing world, you can find your way in life if you relate to them even as just one of the three great subject partners.

They are True Mother and True Father, of course, but if you relate to them as your True Teachers you also will not fail. Even if you meet them as True Owners, you will be able to live and go to the place of eternal life. Why is that so? It is because you are taking a position to live for the sake of others, by the heavenly law.

Since God is like this, I want you to embody the three great subject partners principle. Do so by being the parent, teacher, and owner of your family. Then you will complete everything. Starting from the highest level, God, you manifest everything in your family, where the three perpendicular axes intersect.

Then, because unity arises from the origin, everything that belongs to God becomes yours. That is what comes about when you resemble God. This is the teaching of the three great subject partners. (204-050, 1990.06.29)

31. Look at your body and mind. Isn't your original mind to be pitied? It stands in the position of God. It represents all of your ancestors, your forebears. Your original mind represents your teachers as well as your nation's sovereigns.

Yet how long have you disrespected and mistreated it? As the center of the universe, your original mind stands in the position of the subject partner of true love as your true parent, true teacher,r and true owner.

It has been sacrificed over and over to save you as one person living on this earth. Isn't this so? Though it sacrificed so much, it has not once complained. Yet, we drag it around and treat it continually with contempt, presuming it to be dead.

Yet whenever you harbor an evil thought, for example, going out in the early morning darkness and stealing something, it comes alive and calls you to your senses, alerting you, “Don't do that, you scoundrel!'' Haven't you constantly manipulated your mind?

Despite your having done so, it is in the position of your parent, teacher, and owner. (209-154, 1990.11.28)

32. In the original homeland, we attend to God as the King. God is the King of the universe, the nation, the tribe, and the family. God is the Teacher of the universe, the nation, the tribe, and the family.

God is the Parent of the universe, the nation, the tribe, and the family. This is the teaching of the three great subject partners. This principle includes the original essence of love, which is living for the sake of others, and giving love without expecting anything in return.

Therefore, the three great subject partners themselves represent Heaven. If you could embody the teaching of the three great subject partners, that would be ideal. Yet even if you are unable to embody them all, if you can stand only in the position of a true parent, the teacher will stand on your left and the owner on your right.

If you fulfill just one of the three, everything will be all right. Whether you become a true parent, a true teacher, or a true owner, if you stand in one of these positions, you will have no problem registering in the kingdom of heaven. Each one of them unites all three. (209-154, 1990.11.28)

33. If human beings had not fallen, within Adam's family God would have become the Parent, Teacher, and Owner. He would then have gone beyond that to the tribe, becoming the Parent, Teacher, and Owner of the tribe. Then He would have risen to the position of Parent, Teacher, and Owner of the nation.

What does this perspective teach about a nation's president? The president is the nation's parent, so you should attend your president as your parent and your teacher.

The president's actions should embody a standard representing the national spirit and historical tradition. As a teacher and owner, he or she should pass on the system of governance by which to continue managing and leading the nation. That is how governance should expand to the world and all the heaven and earth.

If God governs this way, no one will resist because God is the origin of our life, our Parent who gave us birth. He is the origin of our knowledge, our Teacher who has given us an environment of freedom throughout history, in which we can live based on our self-realization.

As our Owner, He has prepared and provided everything for us and has bequeathed everything to us. This principle is eternal and unchanging in the heavenly realm.

This is the teaching of the three great subject partners that we honor. In conclusion, let us be true parents, true teachers, and true owners, as God is.
(205-274, 1990.10.01)