Father! We must reflect on whether we who are in this place today have become individuals whose tears come first while we long for you, and whether we have become a group that is living each day, struggling, and saying that we will become sacrifices of our will for the expansion of the Unification Movement.
As for the path we come and go on in life, as for the circumstances of our daily lives, where we eat and sleep, as for our emotional lives, where we think things are good or had, the things we think are good should be good because of you; the things we think are had should be bad because of you; and our coming and goings, and our eating and sleeping, too, the totality of our daily lives should be because of you.
When we think that our lives are such that we must live in a position where we cannot exist without you, we come to realize that the realm of possessions centered on ourselves is far too large Father, please personally appear now and let us realize that we must feel ashamed of ourselves; we must feel that we are children who must always be spurred on by you to redouble our efforts, and we must come to have an attitude of mind that can receive at least your sympathy.
Jesus gathered his beloved disciples, and to Peter, who could represent them, he was asked over and over again, two and three times, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” And Peter answered, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.”
According to the number of times Jesus asked Peter that, we know that at that point he was not putting him in a strong position; rather, he was in a position of being admonished that he should feel guilty about his inadequacies and he should make a new determination.
Now, if you ask any one of us that kind of question, we must be able to answer, “You know that I love you, Father, and I love your Will.” If our Father asks us, and asks us, and asks us again, we must answer with confidence, “Yes, I love you.” When faced with that question, we must weep and think about our inadequate selves of the past.
And if we have stood in a position where we can feel why he would ask such a question, we must answer, “I will become a person who fulfills the duty of a child just as I am.” And when you call us and ask us to “Fulfill completely the responsibility of a child of heaven by representing the world,” we must love you.
From the position of a child who is longing for your command we have been longing for that day to come, but while saying, “Now we will finally be able to accomplish what you want,” we must go forward knowing that this is a path of destiny which we must go even if it crosses with death hundreds of thousands of times, and even if it is connected to a path where we are sacrificed as offerings.
We are not hoping for the touch of your sympathy even when we are at the point of collapsing. Rather, we will determine to fulfill our duty of loyalty and filial piety to you on our own in order not to be derided by Satan. And we will have to determine ourselves, saying, “Father, don't worry.
Even without your cooperation, I am confident that I can overcome my relationship with Satan as an individual. No matter what sufferings there may be, I do not need your cooperation, and understanding that position as my realm of responsibility, I shall follow that model.”
We are not hoping for your sympathy; rather, we know clearly that if we struggle to become sons who can comfort heaven even if we are destined to collapse and vomit blood, we will not be destroyed.
Please let us understand clearly that if there is such a son, even if the place where he collapses is in the enemy camp, when you rush to comfort him without hesitation, it will remain a realm of victory which Satan cannot falsely accuse.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
Sun Myung Moon