New Year, New Blessings
Wishing all of our brothers and sisters around the world a wonderful new year! As 2021 comes to a close and we usher in 2022, let’s remember the blessings of our daily lives and those of our great nation.
As True Parents shared, with God’s blessings comes responsibility. America remains a beacon of hope and inspiration across the globe, and more importantly, America is God’s hope and promise to humanity — to peacefully unify one global family under our Creator. What better way to start the new year than to connect more people with True Parents and the Unification movement?
Below is an excerpt from True Father’s speech, “For God So Loved the World,” in which he implores us to share our blessings and our faith with the world.
God seeks to build one family of humankind. Therefore, the family, church, and nation which God desires transcend all barriers of race and nationality. The people who are a unified blending of all colors of skin, and who transcend race and nationality, are most beautiful in the sight of God and most pleasing to Him. America is such a microcosm of the world.
Transcending nationality and race, God meant America to be a model for the ideal world. Look at your own families. Most families have the virtue of a distinct international character. If your lineage has been in America for some time, it probably unites many different nationalities...
America is now a big, established country with many customs and traditions. However, the only ones worth following are those which are based upon universal principles. There were two kinds of people among your forefathers. One kind came to this land seeking wealth. The others came to this land seeking God and freedom; they dreamed of building a new nation centered upon God.
If the former had become the mainstream of America, there would have been far greater strife, division and struggle between the different races and national groups. The United States would have been filled with unrighteousness and injustice. From the beginning, however, God intervened. Therefore, of all the immigrants, the righteous men of God were to find their proper place as leaders in America. All the different races and nationalities of the world harmonized upon this land. The beautiful tradition of America was set by your forefathers in accordance with God's providence.
True Americans are those who are proud of such international families and churches and of the nation which consists of all peoples... America should return to the true founding spirit of the nation, to the ideals which her ancestors sought to establish with sweat and blood. America should return to Godism, an absolutely God-centered ideology...
We must reach a decision which will bring hope to America... Certainly American Christianity has the responsibility to stop all these evils... I have called for Christians to unite, because only in unity will there be sufficient strength to overcome the corrupt trend of American life. If Christians don't do it, who will?
Today, America is undergoing an internal or spiritual test. She is invaded by moral decay and is confused about her national values and purpose. Meanwhile, the God-denying ideology of communism has risen up to undertake an all-out offensive against the free world. Destroying America is the communists’ ultimate goal. More than anything else, America will survive this test only if she stands as God's nation.
To do this, world Christianity must unite. The church must liberate herself from sectarianism. She must undergo a drastic reform and achieve an ecumenical and inter-religious unity. For this, we need a spiritual revolution, and it has come in the form of a new Christian movement. The Unification movement has been created by God to fulfill that mission.
The new ideology which the Unification movement brings is Godism, an absolutely God-centered ideology. It has the power to bring Christians of all creeds, and other religions and conscientious people, into unity without insisting on uniformity of belief. It has the power to awaken America, and it has the power to raise the model of the ideal nation of God upon this land... This is our supreme mission. It is truly our God-given, sacred mission.
You can connect more people to the Unification movement through the Blessing Festival available here.