One With God
It’s 2022! — a new year which brings optimism, planning, and resoluteness. This often evokes new ideas and changes, as more than half of the U.S. makes new year resolutions. Some 30 percent of people resolve to spend more time with family, but in this new year, we can resolve to spend more time with our Heavenly Parent, too.
Below is an excerpt from True Father’s speech, “Let Us Know Ourselves,” where he encourages us to become one with God to discover who we are — our true selves — and understand the life God intends for all His children. True Parents reveal that, together with God, we not only gain greater fulfillment in all areas of our lives, we conquer ourselves and the world as well.
Speech Excerpt:
God is the master and center of the public law of the universe. One thing can be said: God exists solely for the sake of others. He is the supreme public person in the universe. God is the Creator and the originator of the two basic principles of service and sacrifice... In the same way, if we are created by God then His principles must become ours as well.
Since God is proclaiming that way of life, everything should come under that way of life as well. That's the way God designed the universe, and anything that goes against that principle will receive pain. When we establish give and take with God by living that way, it brings harmony and energy to life. Whoever is linked to that kind of give and take shall enjoy eternal life because there is no end to it. Why do we have to live the life of sacrifice and service? Ultimately it is in order to have give and take with God and plug into His energy.
Why should we become one with God? By doing so you will enjoy eternal life. He is the source of power; God is the highest, so by uniting with Him you become highest as well. God is absolute. By uniting with Him you also become absolute and in that unity you will be protected because no one else will have the power to harm you. In unity with God, His power and energy become your power and energy and you become a child in His image. There are all kinds of love, but none better than the love of God, which shines like the sun. You then become the recipient of that love.
The sun radiates warmth and light, and when you are part of the sun of God's love you also become a life-giving element which can bring harmony and life wherever you go. Such a person always brings life and energy and melts ungodly things... I don't have any assets of my own except this universal law. Furthermore, I aspire to work harder and suffer more than anyone else for this cause. God knows very well what principle I am living under.
When you are ridiculed and mistreated you naturally feel pain. But if you are serving the absolute goal of the liberation of God, then everything that you bear shall be borne by God as well; your own death will be felt by God as well... This universal principle must be taught to American youth who are in darkness and confusion today... The person who tries to fulfill the Will of God every day is not going to be glorified by Congress but will be persecuted and ridiculed by the people instead. His duty must be fulfilled in that position. Sacrifice and service must be the credo of our life.
Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world... You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe who can move, whereas the universe is stationary. Because you can move and act, you can govern the universe... The principle atmosphere of the world is supreme love... based on sacrifice and service. Don't be intimidated by the world... If you move forward and I am pushing behind you, there is no way you can fail.
Continue to grow with God this year through various Unification texts available here.