Was there anyone on this earth who knew the mind of Jesus? Since there was not a single person who saw Jesus who was filled with apprehension and who experienced and felt keenly the sorrow of heaven penetrating deep into his or her mind, we know that heaven could not help but lament over the people who were like this.
At this time please let us be able to sympathize through our minds with the sorrowful fact that not having a single disciple who, knowing the heart of heaven, called him "Lord," Jesus had to go a course of life scattered with suspicion, and furthermore had to meet the end of his lonely life while with suspicion. Oh, Father!
Please allow us to become people who can fathom the lonely heart of Jesus who gathered his disciples in front of himself and had to tell them that before long his life on earth would end, and he would go to his father's kingdom.
If we look at it in terms of time, there is a period of 2,000 years between Jesus and ourselves, but since we know that the world of heart can transcend time, please bring about acts of direct experience and keen feeling, so that moved to tears by the lonely heart and haggard appearance of Jesus, we can see today his holy image which has exhorted us word by word. This kind of scene is a scene that we as human beings cannot help but long for.
Jesus embraced the earnest heart of heaven, embraced the entire work of heaven, and came to humankind, but humankind treated Jesus, who was that kind of person, however, they pleased, and they rejected him totally.
They pushed him into a completely lonely position.
But please let us come to know the lonely situation of Jesus, who did not have even one disciple who could be trusted in the presence of the grim heart of Jesus who was thinking that, to pioneer the one way to the garden of life, it wouldn't do unless he dragged them to Gethsemane and that it wouldn't do unless they went the way of the cross on Golgotha.
Please let us come to know that even while walking without argument through the place of lamentation, and even though he was filled with sorrow, Jesus could not cast aside humankind who were like that.
Today please let us be able to communicate with the heart of that time and to relate to heaven while thinking of these truths, and appeal to heaven by saying, "Oh Father!" with the heart of Jesus who was in a position like an orphan.
We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let these people become disciples who open their hearts and who can believe, and that you will allow these people to become beings who can testify about Jesus.
We earnestly hope that you will allow us to be able to sympathize with the heart of Jesus, who had to leave behind disciples who did not know how great his sorrow was. The heart of Jesus, who was in the position of having to end his life without having seen his life bear fruit, despite his having lived his entire life for humankind. Please let us sympathize with the mind of Jesus, who was worried about heaven with an extremely sad heart.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
