Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (060) - God’s Model Ideal Family and Nation and the Peace Kingdom
3. The value of a family of three generations living in harmony
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason we miss the family we have left behind is because at home there is love for one another. Home is where the love of mother and father, the love of brothers and sisters, the love of one’s spouse, one’s children and one’s close neighbors are all deeply embedded. It is a place of mutual affection, where all the relationships and affinities are brought together through mutual love. This makes you want to cherish each and every member of your family. It is the yearning and desire of any wanderer who has left his family behind to reappear boldly before his family, as a liberated being, and embrace the mountains, streams and trees, love his relatives and countrymen, and sing songs of ecstasy. However, the situation of humankind descended from the Fall has been different. Banished from their original heavenly hometown and destined to wander around in isolation and defeat, human beings have never been able to go back, no matter how much they missed their families, for they have lost the root of the heart of their original homeland.
However, with the ushering in of this era of a new heaven and a new earth, we are being pulled out of the swamp that was sucking us down. The way is being opened for us to return to our hometown, which we have never forgotten even for a moment, and to meet with our true family. Could there ever be a day of greater blessing for humanity? The time of heavenly power and fortune has now come, making it possible for us to reestablish the original family that was lost through the Fall of Adam and Eve.
When seeking after the lost original family, you should set out from the position of the perfected Adam, the position of the perfected Jesus, and the position representing the perfected Second Coming of the Lord. God will dwell in such a family. That family would be one of three generations— grandparents, parents and children—living in harmony. Parents and children live in service and attendance to the grandparents as the historical root of the ancestors.
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The family wherein parents and children love and respect each other, husband and wife are grounded in mutual trust and love, and brothers and sisters trust and rely on each other, and all live together as one, is the model ideal family. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
Such a true family is the root of history and the root of the kingdom of heaven, because it is from such a family that the kingdom of heaven on earth takes root. It is also where the everlasting root of kingship is firmly planted. The roots of the past, present and future are represented in the grandparents, parents and grandchildren, respectively. The root of the past represents the spirit world; the root of the present is the palace representing the world today; and the root of the future establishes the grandsons and granddaughters as princes and princesses. Through such a family we erect the palace of peace, representing the harmony of the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical world.
In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren live together as one family, serving the eternally existent God. You have to know that to seek after and establish such a family of Cheon II Guk, God’s kingdom, is the responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of the ambassadors for peace, and the desire of God.
You must form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You have to raise families to which He can come freely as a parent visiting His children. This is what it means to live in service to God. Within such a family, God becomes the subject partner of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that vertical subject partner, our mind stands in the position of subject partner to our body and brings the two into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love—the four realms of love or the four realms of heart—are perfected. Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and back, left and right be connected as one, in a circular flow of energy. This leads to God’s everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and to His peace kingdom.
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