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Please Invite God Into Your Heart, Into Your Home, Into Your Country
Soung Ryong Kim
September 9, 2002
Krakow, Poland
"Please Invite God Into Your Heart, Into Your Home, Into Your Country."
This is my topic today.
In order for any of you to join and remain, it took 1,000 people to come to introduction lectures, 2 day Workshop, 7 day Workshop, 21 day Workshop. Many many people came and left, many have broken matchings and blessings.
Therefore each one of you represents 1,000 people from the street. Each of you is so precious.
Invite God into your heart.
Poland has 7 Nobel Peace prize winners. Korea only 1. Poland is such a big country. It is hard for anyone to direct it. In most countries there are no national messiahs. Here you have 3, and not only messiahs but messiah families… Amazing !!! National Messiahs, I think you are spiritual elders. You came here to support.
One of Father's most joyful occupations is that he puts international people together and enjoys to see them struggle together….. This is our big challenge, our historical challenge.. How to unite… Some countries never try to unite. They remain one kind of people. It is normal to struggle. Accept that difficulties are normal, not strange or special.
Try to find the way. This is our challenge.
Invite God into your heart. Unification members have a problem. We focus on the fact that we have 5% responsibility, and that this means 100% of our effort. We do not remember about God's 95%. We only remember that our responsibility means 100%.
So our big problem is that we are atheist. We think we believe in God, but 80% of Unificationists are atheists. We do not believe in God. We don't feel God working. We don't believe in God's power.
God is a such great creator, God is such a great parent. Let's start again by believing in God as a parent who can solve our problems, mine and the nation's problems. 95% is God's plan, His work. I am simply God's partner, God's instrument. I believe in God's divine power.
Make your heart such, that God can stay in it. Make space for God to stay in your heart. Make space for God to stay in your home. Make space for God to stay in Poland. National messiahs have no power. Only God can do.
Simply ask God and God can work with you. When you have problems, don't cry so much. God is already sorrowful for you. If you have success don't be so happy. This is also God's work. God also is happy.
Make place for God. Give everything to God. He is the main person for this result. National messiahs, national leader are not the center. God should be our center. Have a simple mind. Poland has problems because there is no place for God to work. Have a simple mind which says," God can work". Of course we have our 5%, but don't consider that your 5% is so important. First have a grateful mind for the fact that God can work 95%. We should be humble in front of God. Everything is under God's hand. Our thinking must be, "I am God's child".
When you have a meeting, please pray for God's wisdom. Don't find human wisdom, find God's wisdom. Work together with God. If you ask God, He can give you an answer. If you don't ask, you will have no answer.
We pray, but we don't feel that God can work.. We don't believe that God can work.
Try to be a simple person. Ask and believe. Pray and believe. Be a simple, faithful person. Many Christians do not know much theology but believe simply. The Unification Church has 80% atheists.
Please try to work with the great God. Try to experience such incredible great God. If you have such experience, you never lose your high spirit. You always go forward.
Prayer is not sitting down in a room, but conversation, communication with God, normally. Our responsibility is to work together with God. We are people who lost power because we don't work together with God.
Western people are serious atheists. The Italian problem is the Mafia. This is worst than atheism.
Western people cry because they are lonely without God, but Italians go on happily…without God !!!! They can create their own kingdom of heaven without God.
Ideal and reality.
Our challenge is to understand True Father's words.
True Father does not express words connected with our reality. True Father only gives us an ideal goal, only this. That's why we must understand our goal and our reality. We are living in a secular and terrible hell. But True Father's speech and life are totally united with Heavenly Father and with the Kingdom of Heaven. So we should recognize that Father's lifestyle is like our dream, our future, our eternal goal. Nobody knows when we will live on True Father's level, maybe after 7 generations. Maybe it is possible. But on our level we have a terrible situation.
Leaders or members, nobody explains such a difference. This is our problem in our movement. We have a total chaos, mess about what is our dream and our reality.
It is very confusing. Sometimes leaders are very confused. They don't know how to deal with it, how to guide. The leader himself is very much struggling between whole purpose and private purpose. Therefore we should understand very clearly and analyze the Divine Principle and Father's teaching. We should understand deeply what is our real situation. And then we should know how to guide our members one step at a time. That is our homework. But True Father did not explain our homework. Just True Father goes his own way. That is our challenge.
True Father never prayed for his problems, but we should pray for our problems. So we should follow True Father's lifestyle, plus we should ask help for our problems, both.
Sometimes we have difficulties with our children.
Why? We try to follow True Father's lifestyle and all our children have problems. Because, simply we try to follow Father's lifestyle. OK, if we can follow 100%, be 100% crazy like Father, then Heavenly Father can protect our children. Unfortunatly, our mind wants to, but we cannot live on such a level. That's why God cannot help us 100% with our children. That is the problem. It is not True Parents' problem. It is our mistake. We did not know our desire and our reality. It is our mistake. That's why we should try to follow True Father's lifestyle, plus still we are in the process. Still we should take care of our children, so they can be protected from Satan's attacks.
I can pray for myself but with a different motivation. If you are His child, God wants to help you fulfill your private goals. (To Marek, national leader) Don't feel too much pressure. Until now you have been tired because you feel so much pressure. It is good to be simple.
Have a humble heart.
One more point: Let's look at the true love between Heavenly Father and True Father. Father is always sorry that he could not bring good results to God when he was young. He is sad that so many people died without understanding. In our case we do something great and we are proud in front of Heavenly Father, members and our family. Because True Father lives with true love, whatever he does, he is sorry that he didn't do more. When we see True Father's standard, how can we be proud?
Be very very humble. This is the way for God to work with us. Be humble in front of Heavenly Father, True Parents, members and family. Still my job is not great in front of God. Arrogance is the gate for Satan. You should see how humble True Parents are in front of Heavenly Father, and how humble they are towards us, feeling sorry that they could not give us more love. That is True Parents' heart.
Always be humble towards Heavenly Father, True Parents, members, spouse, children. This is life and death. Through arrogance Satan can attack. Until the end of your life be humble, then you can be God's children. This is a secure way to stay alive. Towards outside people, we think," I can be proud in front of you, I am blessed, I know True Parents…".
Instead we should think, „I am sorry I could not show you a good example. So you can't trust me or follow me." We have no reason to show any pride. Totally be humble to everybody.
Public and private goal.
We need money. This is normal. But money and job became first. My job, my friends, my family became first. All public life became second. This is a big danger. Put public purpose first, sunday service, tithing, witnessing. Put private life second. I don't neglect private life, but being crazy to make money should be second.
According to the Principle we should take care of our private life, but without public life we have no security. Show example of public life first. Both goals are important, private and public, and first must be public. Be very clear. Even if the leaders don't give a nice sermon, come to sunday service. This is a place to meet God. At home there is no guarantee that Heavenly Father comes. It is dangerous. Sunday service is a promise, a guarantee, a security. Some people are confused, "I am tribal messiah, I can give Sunday service in my home".
Offer tithing, money tithing and time tithing. Go out witnessing. 2 hrs a week. A tribal messiah must be serious to offer time to restore a tribe. Our family is important, but our congregation is more important, because our congregation and our movement can restore our nation. Public service, offering, witnessing are more important than our family. Make a simple decision to offer some time. Once a week, go witnessing. God can bless your family more and more.
Members want to do something. Leaders you did not give proper guidance. Team work together, teaching, childcare. Make more and more time for public life.
Leaders should persuade members to give 2 hrs.
Leaders should show the example and go every day.
Members can respect a leader who acts. It is simple.
Go together leader and members.
Daily life is life and death.
In some families the husband is closer to God, in others the wife is closer to God. In about 10% of the families both are close to God. In others both are near Satan, on the way to death. To be near God you must be serious. Do Hoon Dok Hae and pray. If the wife is closer to God, she should not be dominated by Satan and should bring her husband and children to God. Therefore we should know where is our position.
Satan is wise, 10-20 times wiser than us. When we are dying we don't know that we are. Satan offers us one cigarette, then more, one glass of alcohol, more and more, then we drink in a group… Satan dominates you step by step. Satan operates step by step, not very quickly. In the same way, step by step witness to your spouse, bring your friends to God's side.. be wiser than Satan so you can bring many people to God's side. Daily life is always life and death. Each moment we are involved in one action, one behavior. Let's be careful. Satan continuously tries to kill us. Have strong determination. If you miss prayer once you don't know when Satan will attack. If we continuously forget prayer, then Satan attacks our members. When we are going near God's side we feel it, we feel alive.
I'll try to come more often. I am not so interested in how many people came. I came here to help you.
Next time, try to invite other blessed families. I'll also try to visit Warszawa (Warsaw). Witness. Don't keep your national leader alone in hell. Go together. Support him.
We are diamonds.
Please remember you are 1 out of 1,000 people from the street. You can be grateful. You are 1 saved person. You are precious. Don't treat yourself like garbage but like a diamond. From 1,000 people you were chosen, you endured, you survived, you made a victorious foundation. All of us, we are diamonds.
We cannot be arrogant but we must see that we are precious. Treat members and leaders as precious persons. We are living diamonds, speaking diamonds.
We have a lot of struggling diamonds… Our motivation should be true love diamond. We are struggling diamonds.. Don't be depressed about anything. If husband and wife struggle, it is not bad. One person realized, after his wife raised her voice, that he could understand her real desire.
We are diamonds. Treat each other preciously.
Support each other in difficult situations. Create teamwork, then you can create a better organization, a better community. When people come, they can feel something different and they will come back.
Otherwise we have nothing different to offer. Our relationships are more important than witnessing on the street. Create a nice community.
Who are you? Struggling, speaking diamonds? Next time I ask you, simply answer, „ Diamonds". I'll try to come more often. I have email. If you have difficulties, email to me and I'll try to help you.
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